This course will explore some of the most important issues confronting the international transport sector. This includes topics from the regulatory side, for example touching on environmental and safety issues, as well as those from the commercial perspective such as uniform contract and insurance matters. Topics may engage with either domestic or international law or a combination of both. Topics to be covered by the course are Contracting for carriage. Types of contracts used for transportation. The use of documents such as charter parties, bills of lading, and waybills. The relationship between the carriage and the sale of goods carried. Ancillary transactions such as insurance and banking contracts. Passenger transportation is covered more briefly. The course also gives glimpses of problems of the special law of transport, i.e. the part dealing mainly with the means and ways of transport. This is considered mainly for maritime law and covers such matters as the following: Use of waterways in the light of international and domestic law. Legal aspects of vessels, including nationality, sale, ownership, and management. Finance and security aspects, such as building, sale, lease, and mortgage. Seamen‘s law includes the master‘s role and power. Ship owner’s liability and its limitations, including liability for oil pollution. General average, collision, and salvage. Marine insurance