Rotterdam Rules and e-commerce

Stuart Hetherington, of Comité Maritime International, and Professor Tomotaka Fujita, of the CMI Standing Committee on Carriage of Goods discuss the need to achieve entry into force of the Rotterdam Rules


In the last several years, we have been hearing about the revolutionary change that the introduction of autonomous ships will bring to international shipping. More recently, it is the technological developments in electronic commerce, such as blockchain, that it is said will revolutionise the sector.