Shipping law
The Maritime Law is a branch of laws and regulations of Wasserverkehrs- and maritime law that deals with the use of ships in national and international waterways deal.
Shipping law includes the Collision Prevention Regulations (KVR), the European Inland Waterways Regulations (CEVNI) and, in Germany, the Maritime Traffic Regulations (SeeSchStrO), the Ems Estuary Shipping Regulations and the Inland Waterways Regulations (BinSchStrO).
The collision prevention rules apply on the high seas and on the connected waters that can be navigated by seagoing vessels. The shipping route regulations apply in the territory of the Federal Republic of Germany on the maritime shipping routes, the shipping regulations Ems estuary in the confluence of the Ems and Leda . The inland waterways order applies to the German waterways named in it.
The basic rules for behavior in traffic of the Maritime Road Regulations and the Ems Estuary Shipping Regulations require, among other things:
- ( 1) Every road user must behave in such a way that the safety and ease of traffic is guaranteed and that no one else is harmed, endangered or hindered or annoyed more than is unavoidable under the circumstances. [...]
- (2) In order to avert an imminent danger, taking into account the special circumstances, all necessary measures must also be taken if they make a deviation from the provisions of this Ordinance necessary.
- (3) Anyone who, as a result of physical or mental deficiencies or the consumption of alcoholic beverages or other intoxicating substances, is disabled in the safe driving of a vehicle or in the safe performance of another activity of bridge, deck or machine service may not drive a vehicle or as Member of the ship's crew does not perform any other activity in bridge, deck or machine service. [...]
- (4) Anyone who has 0.25 mg / l or more alcohol in their breath or 0.5 parts per thousand or more alcohol in their blood or an amount of alcohol in their body that leads to such a breath or blood alcohol concentration may neither drive a vehicle nor as A member of the ship's crew does not perform any other activity in bridge, deck or machine service. [...]
In addition to the duties of conduct based on the traffic regulations, every skipper has to observe the nautical due diligence requirements that are required by general seafaring practice or special circumstances of the case.
literature
- Walter Helmers: Shipping law, tasks for captain classes 4th, supplemented and expanded edition. Reprography Oldenburg, Bremen October 1963.
