Hague - Visby Rules

 

International Convention for the unification of certain Rules of Law relating to Bills of Lading , first accepted  in Brussels on the date of  25th August   1947 .
 Participated Nations having recognized the utility of fixing by agreement certain uniform rule of law relating to Bills of Lading , having decided to conclude a convention with this object and have appointed plenipotentiaries who , duly authorized there to have agreed as per certain rules .

After many convention and making many editing in this law at present following nations are accepting these rules and many nations are thinking to accept this rule so the number of nations who accepting this rule is increasing day by day .

Here is the list of some nations who are following this rule

A list of ratifications and denouncements of the 3 conventions is shown below:

Country	1924	1968	1979	Comments
Algeria	Active
Angola	Active
Antigua and Barbuda	Active
Argentina	Active
Australia	Denounced		Active
Bahamas	Active
Barbados	Active
Belgium	Active	Active	Active
Belize	Active
Bolivia	Active
Cameroon	Active
Cape Verde	Active
China	Active	Active		Hong Kong and Macao (1924) only
Democratic Republic of the Congo	Active
Croatia	Active	Active	Active
Côte d'Ivoire	Active
Cuba	Active
Cyprus	Active
Denmark	Denounced	Active	Active
Dominica	Active
Egypt	Active	Denounced
Ecuador	Active	Active
Fiji	Active
Finland	Denounced	Active	Active
France	Active	Active	Active
Gambia	Active
Georgia		Active
Germany	Active
German Democratic Republic	Active		Active
Goa	Active
Greece			Active
Grenada	Active
Guinea-Bissau	Active
Guyana	Active
Hungary	Active
Iran	Active
Ireland	Active
Israel	Active
Italy	Denounced	Active	Active
Jamaica	Active
Japan	Denounced		Active
Kenya	Active
Kiribati	Active
Kuwait	Active
Latvia	Active	Active	Active
Lebanon	Denounced	Denounced
Lithuania	Active	Active	Active
Luxembourg			Active
Madagascar	Active
Malaysia	Active
Mauritius	Active
Mexico			Active
Monaco	Active
Mozambique	Active
Nauru	Active
Netherlands	Denounced	Active	Active	European Territory and Aruba (1968)
New Zealand			Active
Nigeria	Active
Norway	Denounced	Active	Active
Palestine	Active
Papua New Guinea	Active
Paraguay	Denounced
Peru	Active
Poland	Active	Active	Active
Portugal	Active
Romania	Denounced
Russia			Active
Sarawak	Active
Saint Christopher and Nevis	Active
Saint Lucia	Active
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Denounced
São Tomé and Príncipe	Active
Sarawak	Active
Senegal	Active
Seychelles	Active
Sierra Leone	Active
Singapore	Active	Active
Somalia	Active
Slovenia	Active
Solomon Islands	Active
Spain			Active
Sri Lanka	Active	Active
Sweden	Denounced	Active	Active
Switzerland	Active	Active	Active
Syria	Active	Active
Tanganyika	Active
Timor	Active
Tonga	Active	Active
Trinidad and Tobago	Active
Turkey	Active
Tuvalu	Active
United Kingdom	Denounced	Active	Active
United States	Active
Yugoslavia	Active