{"id":31586,"date":"2025-03-30T10:10:06","date_gmt":"2025-03-30T04:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=31586"},"modified":"2025-04-16T13:08:43","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T07:38:43","slug":"carriage-of-goods-by-sea-bill-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/carriage-of-goods-by-sea-bill-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Carriage of Goods by Sea Bill, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Carriage of Goods by Sea Bill Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>The Lok Sabha recently passed the Carriage of Goods by Sea Bill, 2024, paving the way for the enactment of modern maritime law in the country.<\/p>\n<h2>About Carriage of Goods by Sea Bill, 2024<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It will <strong>replace the colonial-era Indian Carriage of Goods by Sea Act, 1925.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The<strong> Act establishes the responsibilities, liabilities, rights, and immunities<\/strong> in case of <strong>goods carried from a port in India to another port in India or any other port in the world.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The Act is in <strong>conformance with the International Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules of Law relating to Bills of Lading of August 1924 (Hague Rules)<\/strong> and subsequent amendments to it.<\/li>\n<li>The bill retains all provisions of the act.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>bill is aimed at consolidating laws related to port management,<\/strong> promoting integrated port development, and enhancing the ease of doing business in the maritime sector.<\/li>\n<li>It seeks to optimize the utilisation of India\u2019s vast coastline by <strong>establishing and empowering State Maritime Boards <\/strong>to ensure effective management of ports other than major ports.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It also proposes the <strong>formation of the Maritime State Development Council<\/strong> to foster structured growth and development of the port sector.<\/li>\n<li>It also <strong>addresses critical aspects such as pollution control, disaster management, emergency response, security, safety, navigation, <\/strong>and data management at ports.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It seeks to ensure India\u2019s compliance with international obligations and maritime conventions.<\/li>\n<li>This bill includes<strong> provisions for port conservation<\/strong> and introduces adjudicatory <strong>mechanisms for resolving port-related disputes efficiently.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Powers of the central government:<\/strong> The Bill empowers the central government to:\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Issue directions<\/strong> for carrying out provisions of the Bill;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Amend the schedule <\/strong>specifying rules applicable to bills of lading;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Carriage of Goods by Sea Bill FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. Which international convention does the Carriage of Goods by Sea Bill, 2024 conform to?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. The International Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules of Law relating to Bills of Lading (Hague Rules)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. What is the primary aim of the Carriage of Goods by Sea Bill, 2024?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. To consolidate laws related to port management and enhance ease of doing business in the maritime sector.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. What is the purpose of establishing State Maritime Boards under the Carriage of Goods by Sea Bill, 2024?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. To ensure effective management of ports other than major ports.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livemint.com\/news\/india\/lok-sabha-passes-carriage-of-goods-by-sea-bill-2024-modern-regulations-maritime-sector-sea-shipping-trade-ports-11743161891593.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">MINT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carriage of Goods by Sea Bill, 2024 will replace the colonial-era Indian Carriage of Goods by Sea Act, 1925.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":31587,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-31586","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}