A number of international conventions in the field of maritime transport were prepared or adopted under the auspices of UNCTAD.
The Conventions
International Convention on Arrest of Ships, 1999
Official text: English | French | Spanish | Arabic | Russian | Chinese
Certified True Copy (all official UN languages)
Status information: English | French
See also:
Reports and Documents on 'Admiralty Law and Marine Insurance'.
International Convention on Maritime Liens and Mortgages, 1993
Official text: English | French | Spanish | Arabic | Russian | Chinese
Certified True Copy (all official UN languages)
Status information: English | French
See also:
Reports and Documents on 'Admiralty Law and Marine Insurance'.
United Nations Convention on Conditions for
Registration of Ships, 1986
Official text: English | French | Spanish | Arabic | Russian | Chinese
Certified True Copy (all official UN languages)
Status information: English | French
United Nations Convention on International
Multimodal Transport of Goods, 1980
Official text: English | French | Spanish | Arabic | Russian | Chinese
Certified True Copy (all official UN languages)
Status information: English | French
See also:
Reports and Documents on 'Carriage of Goods and International Trade Law'.
United Nations Convention on the Carriage of Goods
by Sea (Hamburg Rules), 1978
Official text: English | French | Spanish | Arabic | Russian | Chinese
Certified True Copy (all official UN languages)
Status information: English | French
See also:
Reports and Documents on 'Carriage of Goods and International Trade Law'.
United Nations Convention on a Code of Conduct
for Liner Conferences, 1974
Official text: English | French | Spanish | Arabic | Russian | Chinese
Certified True Copy (all official UN languages, except Arabic)
Status information: English | French
See also: Guidelines towards the application of the Convention on a Code of Conduct for Liner Conferences.
Links to the Certified True Copies of the above Conventions and their status information will redirect to the United Nations Treaty Series Database, http://treaties.un.org/.
Status of conventions
The following table provides information on the status of ratification of each of those conventions as at 1 March 2023.
Title of convention |
Date of entry into force or conditions for entry into force |
Contracting States |
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6 October 1983 |
Algeria, Bangladesh, Barbados, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chile, China, Congo, Costa Rica, Côte d’Ivoire, Cuba, Czechia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Guyana, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Italy, Jamaica, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Lebanon, Liberia, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Portugal, Qatar, Republic of Korea, Romania, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Sierra Leone, Slovakia, Somalia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sweden, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, United Republic of Tanzania, Uruguay, Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Zambia (75) |
|
|
United Nations Convention on the Carriage of Goods by Sea, 1978 |
1 November 1992 |
Albania, Austria, Barbados, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Chile, Czechia, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Gambia, Georgia, Guinea, Hungary, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Morocco, Nigeria, Paraguay, Peru, Romania, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Syrian Arab Republic, Tunisia, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia (35) |
|
International Convention on Maritime Liens and Mortgages, 1993 |
5 September 2004 |
Albania, Barbados, Benin, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Ecuador, Estonia, Honduras, Lithuania, Monaco, Nigeria, Peru, Russian Federation, Spain, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Serbia, Syrian Arab Republic, Tunisia, Ukraine, Vanuatu (21) |
|
United Nations Convention on International Multimodal Transport of Goods, 1980 |
Not yet in force – requires 30 contracting parties |
Burundi, Chile, Georgia, Lebanon, Liberia, Malawi, Mexico, Morocco, Rwanda, Senegal, Zambia (11) |
|
United Nations Convention on Conditions for Registration of Ships, 1986 |
Not yet in force – requires 40 Contracting Parties, representing at least |
Albania, Bulgaria, Côte d’Ivoire, Egypt, Georgia, Ghana, Haiti, Hungary, Iraq, Liberia, Libya, Mexico, Morocco, Oman, Syrian Arab Republic (15) |
|
14 September 2011 |
Albania, Algeria, Benin, Bulgaria, Congo, Ecuador, Estonia, Latvia, Liberia, Peru, Spain, Syrian Arab Republic, Turkey (13) |
Note: For additional information, see UNCTAD Trade Logistics Branch, Policy and Legislation Section, at https://unctad.org/ttl/legal. For official status information, see the United Nations Treaty Collection, available at https://treaties.un.org.
