أساس و حدود مسئولية الناقل البحري : دراسة تحليلية لمعاهدة أثينا لنقل الركاب و أمتعتهم لعام 2002

Abstract EN

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In recent years, a number of maritime accidents have occurred, resulting in the deaths of hundreds of passengers and the occurrence of many personal injuries to passengers and the damage of their luggage.

As a result, the national legislator was required to intervene in order to provide adequate protection for passengers of such ships.

This concern was not limited to national legislators in different countries, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) has also been interested in these issues.

The traditional solutions adopted by countries and relevant organizations are the adoption of preventive measures to better protect passengers and other persons concerned, the main objective of which is to strengthen the safety rules for passenger ships.

On the other hand, in order to better protect these passengers, these countries and organizations seek to adopt a set of measures aimed at improving the rules governing their compensation for the damage they sustained as a result of the accidents occurred on board or in the case of damage to the vehicle or luggage of the passenger.

The aim of this study is to analyze the rules dealing with the liability of the maritime carrier in the event of a maritime accident resulting in damage to a passenger or his luggage and the limits of this liability.

This will be done through the analysis and examination of the Athens Convention Relating to the Carriage of Passengers and their Luggage by Sea of 2002, which entered into force on 23 April 2014.

Although the main objective of this study is the analysis and study of the Athens Convention of 2002, a comparison of the legal regime established by this Convention for the liability of the carrier and the limits of this liability, and the legal regime of the carrier liability and its limitations in the Athens Convention of 1974, relating also to the carriage of passengers and their luggage, shall be highlighted.

The study also aims to analyze the provisions related to the subject matter contained in the Qatar Maritime Law No.

15 of 1980.