The rules governing shipping safety are comprehensive, but they are often weakly enforced and circumvented by corruption.
Pressure is mounting on the UN's International Maritime Organisation and the EU to tighten laws governing ship emissions following the decision by the US government last week to impose a strict 230-mile buffer zone along the entire US coast, a move that is expected to be followed by Canada.
Maritime law, also called admiralty law, or admiralty, the body of legal rules that governs ships and shipping.
By justifying cross-border incursions under the mantle of "hot pursuit" of non-state actors--which remember, is an aberration of international law, a bastardized form of maritime law governing ships on the high seas--Obama is opening up a dangerous legal can of worms that would make the world a much messier place.
In the rapporteur's opinion, the civil liability systems governing ship-source pollution in force at present are not sufficiently dissuasive.
Although international legislation to alleviate the situation already existed at that time – the Marpol 73-78 Conventhen – the shortcomings in its application and enforcement were becoming evident and it was also clear that the civil liability systems governing ship-source pollution in force then were not dissuasive enough.
An answer in the Q&A column on Oct. 24, about a passenger who was fined after missing the departure of a Norwegian Cruise Line ship and boarding at the next port, referred incorrectly to laws that govern transport by foreign ships between ports in the United States.
Among other resolutions adopted by the conference of representatives of govern ments, ship owners and seafar ers unions was one raising the recommended minimum monthly wage for an able sea man to $100.
Nonetheless, in today's world, subject to rapid changes and shaken by questions of great importance for the life of faith, in order to govern the ship of Saint Peter and announce the Gospel, it is necessary to have a certain vigor of body and soul, vigor, which in recent months, has diminished, forcing me to recognize my incapacity to administer well the ministry that has been entrusted to me.
(The rules that governed a ship that the buccaneer John Exquemelin sailed on, for instance, provided that six hundred pieces of eight would go (pdf) to a man who lost his right arm).
