Chapter 5 Global vessel sharing agreements versus joint ventures: How do contractual provisions legally entitle contestable legal personality of shipping alliances?
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Laurent Fedi
Abstract
This chapter deals with the comparison between global vessel sharing agreements and joint ventures in the container liner industry. Through the analysis of the key contracts framing the current shipping alliances, such as cooperative working agreements, we raise the question of their legal personality. As results, we show the contestable legal personality of these large entities, since they run their daily operations like joint ventures without the associated risks of joint liability and common ownership.
Abstract
This chapter deals with the comparison between global vessel sharing agreements and joint ventures in the container liner industry. Through the analysis of the key contracts framing the current shipping alliances, such as cooperative working agreements, we raise the question of their legal personality. As results, we show the contestable legal personality of these large entities, since they run their daily operations like joint ventures without the associated risks of joint liability and common ownership.
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Acknowledgements
- Contents VII
- Towards an integration of law and linguistics into the blue humanities 1
- Chapter 1 Understanding and researching legal genres and language within the maritime domain 13
- Chapter 2 The conceptualization of a legal status for marine environment through the evolution of terminology 41
- Chapter 3 Liability for environmental crimes: A comparative study of laws on ecocide and the prevention of oil discharge into the sea 65
- Chapter 4 Law of the sea, maritime law, and human rights applied to migration: Towards a common language? 97
- Chapter 5 Global vessel sharing agreements versus joint ventures: How do contractual provisions legally entitle contestable legal personality of shipping alliances? 147
- Chapter 6 Rhetorical analysis of agreement authority article in maritime agreements 171
- Chapter 7 To what extent is the translation equivalent: an exploration of terminological variation in English-Chinese translation of maritime law 201
- Index 223
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Acknowledgements
- Contents VII
- Towards an integration of law and linguistics into the blue humanities 1
- Chapter 1 Understanding and researching legal genres and language within the maritime domain 13
- Chapter 2 The conceptualization of a legal status for marine environment through the evolution of terminology 41
- Chapter 3 Liability for environmental crimes: A comparative study of laws on ecocide and the prevention of oil discharge into the sea 65
- Chapter 4 Law of the sea, maritime law, and human rights applied to migration: Towards a common language? 97
- Chapter 5 Global vessel sharing agreements versus joint ventures: How do contractual provisions legally entitle contestable legal personality of shipping alliances? 147
- Chapter 6 Rhetorical analysis of agreement authority article in maritime agreements 171
- Chapter 7 To what extent is the translation equivalent: an exploration of terminological variation in English-Chinese translation of maritime law 201
- Index 223
