This survey of recent developments includes reports on amendments to the Canada Marine Act, in particular changes that afford port authorities greater access to financing and regulate their governance, allow for the detention of vessels and goods when enforcement officers believe the act or...

During a visit to Norway by the Russian president in the spring of 2010, the president and the Norwegian prime minister surprisingly announced agreement on a delimitation line in the Barents Sea ending almost 40 years of negotiations. The agreement was signed in Murmansk on 15 September 2010....

The discovery of gas and oil reserves in the East Mediterranean Basin (EMB) has put the spotlight on regional tensions between certain coastal States and on their unresolved disputes in relation to the delimitation of their respective maritime areas. The advent of the United Nations' Convention...

This study examines the influence of maritime affairs on the development of Indonesian popular songs in the 1980s. During the 1980s period, maritime events and issues became one of the discourses that developed in society. This is inseparable from the burning incident of the Tampomas II ship...

The decision in the South China Sea arbitration in relation to the interpretation of art 121(3) of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea has broad implications for states not party to the case. New Zealand, like many other countries, claims an exclusive economic zone and...

This article will concentrate on selected developments in commercial maritime law since the last update on Australian maritime law. Case law developments have largely concerned the Admiralty jurisdiction, and the carriage of goods by sea. Many of them have involved the problems caused by...

This article discusses the interaction between New Zealand's marine pollution liability regime, which is divided between the Resource Management Act 1991 (RMA) and the Maritime Transport Act 1994 (MTA), and the country's maritime limitation of liability regime. The former encompasses both...

A survey of legal developments in maritime law, including an initiative to reform the Fisheries Act, limits on the subject matter giving rise to federal admiralty jurisdiction, application of the limitation in the Marine Liability Act on contractual choices of foreign jurisdictions, application...