Status of the captain of a sea-going vessel in the pre-classical international maritime law

Abstract

The article is devoted to highlighting the problem of determining the legal status of the ship’s captain in the historical and legal retrospect. The notion and structure of the legal status of the ship’s captain. In particular, un- der the proposed status captain understood as defined in national legislation, international instruments and agree- ments, a system of rights and obligations, limits of liability arising master of the vessel during the voyage, as well as safeguards to protect its rights and interests. The author proves that the elements captain status must include: 1) the requirements for the master of the vessel; 2) the procedure for becoming a master of the vessel; 3) The powers of the captain; 4) safeguards to protect the rights captain of the vessel; 5) responsibility of the captain of the ship. We consider the evolution of the legal status of captain; highlights the major issues determining the status of cap- tain. The latter, in particular, include: 1) definition Captain simultaneously subject to many types of relationships (em- ployment, criminal procedural, economic, international, etc.). Without prioritize its powers in a given area, leading to the need for different rules and regulations regulation for different types of relationships; 2) the regulation of the status of numerous international, national regulations and labor contracts and the economic and legal agreements that are sometimes not coordinated.

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Ю. О. Єфіменко

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Ю. О. Єфіменко (2017). Status of the captain of a sea-going vessel in the pre-classical international maritime law. Прикарпатський юридичний вісник, 5(), 231-235. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-456292