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Marine, aviation and land: hull and cargo, carriage conventions, flag and classification, general average, and the limitation regimes specific to each mode.
157 terms1929 Warsaw Convention1992 Civil Liability Convention (oil pollution)2001 Bunker Oil Pollution Convention2001 Cape Town Convention (aircraft interests)2002 Athens Convention (sea passengers)2009 Montreal Conventions (Third-Party Damage on the Ground)2010 HNS Convention (hazardous and noxious substances)Abandonment to underwritersActual total lossAir India Flight 171 crash (2025)Air traffic control liabilityAir waybill (AWB)Aircraft airworthiness (condition of cover)Aircraft hull deductible insuranceAircraft hull insuranceAirport operators' liability insuranceAIS manipulationAlaska Airlines Flight 1282 door plug blowout (2024)Allision (ship striking a fixed structure)Amoco Cadiz Oil Spill (1978)Automatic termination clause (five powers war)Average adjusterAviation Hull War and Allied Perils Policy (LSW 555D)Aviation liabilityAviation products liabilityAviation spares insuranceAviation war riskAVN 48B War, Hijacking and Other Perils Exclusion ClauseAVN 52 extended coverage endorsementBaltimore bridge collapse (2024)Bill of ladingBird strikeBlack Sea Grain Initiative (2022-2023)Blocking and trappingBottomry (nautical loan)Builders' risks insuranceCapsizing of the Herald of Free Enterprise (1987)Car carrier fireCargo theftCarrier's inexcusable faultCharterer's liability insuranceCharteringCL370 Institute Radioactive Contamination, Chemical, Biological, Bio-chemical and Electromagnetic Weapons Exclusion ClauseClass warranty (ship classification)Classification societyClause ParamountClear air turbulenceCMNI Convention (inland waterway carriage of goods)CMR ConventionCollision between vesselsConflict zone (civil aviation)Constructive total lossContainers lost overboardContingent and possessed coverCosta Concordia sinking (2012)COTIF Convention and CIM Uniform Rules (rail transport)Cruise ship insuranceCustoms warehouseDelay exclusion (cargo insurance)DemurrageDeviationDisappearance of Flight MH370 (2014)Downing of Flight MH17 (2014)DP World Australia Cyberattack (2023)Electric air taxi (eVTOL)Erika oil spill (1999)Ever Given Suez Canal blockage (2021)Eyjafjallajökull ash cloud (2010)FD&D cover (freight, demurrage and defense)Felicity Ace sinking (2022)Flag stateFreight forwarder acting as principal (French commissionnaire de transport)Freight insuranceFremantle Highway fire (2023)French standard road haulage contractGeneral average bond and guaranteeGeneral aviation insuranceGermanwings Flight 9525 crash (2015)GNSS jamming and spoofingGolden Ray capsizing (2019)Grip of the perilGroundingHague-Visby RulesHamburg RulesHangarkeepers liabilityHeld covered clauseHimalaya clauseIMDG Code (dangerous goods by sea)IncotermsIncreased value insuranceInstitute Cargo Clauses A, B and CInstitute Time Clauses HullsInstitute War and Strikes ClausesInternational Group P&I Pool and Reinsurance ProgramIOPC Funds (International Oil Pollution Compensation Funds)ISM CodeJeju Air Flight 2216 crash (2024)Lloyd's Open Form (LOF)Lockerbie Bombing (1988)London Aircraft Insurance Policy (AVN 1D)Loss of hireLoss of propulsion (ship)Maersk Honam fire (2018)Marine surveyorMaritime chokepointsMaritime Labor Convention 2006 (MLC)Maritime piracyMontreal Convention of 1999MSC Napoli beaching (2007)Multimodal transportNavigating limits (International Navigating Limits)Notice of loss on delivery (protest against the carrier)Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (OPA 90)One year time bar in carriage of goods by seaOpen cover (floating policy)P&I club calls (advance, supplementary and release calls)P&I club letter of undertaking (LOU)P&I club policy year (February 20 renewal)Panama Canal drought (2023)Particular averagePilot loss of license insurancePleasure craft and yacht insurancePort of Beirut explosion (2020)Port state controlPrestige oil spill (2002)PW1100G engine recall (2023)Regulation (EC) No 261/2004 (Air Passenger Rights)Regulation (EC) No 785/2004 (air carrier insurance)Regulatory fleet groundingRena Disaster (2011)Rotterdam RulesRussian oil price capSCOPIC clause (special compensation for salvors)Sea waybillSeizure of the MSC Aries (2024)Ship ArrestShip repairers' liabilitySinking of the Derbyshire (1980)Sinking of the Sewol (2014)Special drawing rights (SDR)State detainment of a vesselStock throughput insuranceSue and labor clauseTenerife airport collision (1977)Tianjin Port Explosions (2015)Torrey Canyon Disaster (1967)Towage contracts (TOWCON, TOWHIRE)Überlingen mid-air collision (2002)UnseaworthinessUS Airways Flight 1549 Hudson River ditching (2009)Verified gross mass of containers (VGM)Wakashio oil spill (2020)Warehouse to warehouse clauseWashington midair collision, American Eagle Flight 5342 (2025)Withdrawal of third-party war liability cover (September 2001)X-Press Pearl fire (2021)York-Antwerp Rules