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Shipping and Transportation Law Maritime IndustryCJEU Clarifies Liability Rules for Passenger Injuries on Cruise Holidays Sold as Package Travel
In its judgment of 4 June 2026 in Costa Crociere (Case C-629/24), the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) addressed an important question concerning the interaction between EU package travel law and the special liability regime governing passenger transport by sea.
Maritime IndustryChittagong scrap yard: The last shipowner is responsible for the working conditions (?)
©evankrause_-Unsplash.com Background The English High Court, by order of 13 July 2020 ([2020] EWHC 1846 (QB) – Hamida Begum vs. Maran (UK) Ltd), allowed a lawsuit by which the widow of a worker who died in a fatal accident at a scrap yard in Bangladesh sued the last shipowner of a tanker sold for scrapping […]
