Selected Links
SHIPPING AND MARITIME RESOURCES:
Government
- Army Corps of Engineers (ACE): Searchable site with basic information about the Corps, as well as news, publications and many relevant links.
- Coast Guard (USCG): Great information, rules, regulations and documents on marine issues, including marine safety, environmental protection, and law enforcement. A very useful site.
- Department of Commerce (DOC): Information on business, trade, and the economy with links to a number of related sites.
- Department of Justice (DOJ) : Searchable site of the US government's own law firm, including topical index, news, information on the Freedom of Information Act and links to related sites.
- Department of State (DOS): Interesting site, including information on US foreign policy and state department services, including passports, visas, travel warnings, embassies and consulates, and "Background Notes" on the world's nations.
- Department of Transportation (DOT): Searchable site covering all DOT entities, including the Coast Guard, the Maritime Administration and the Federal Aviation Administration.
- Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Searchable site, including EPA regulations and relevant US statutes.
- Federal Maritime Commission (FMC): General information relating to the FMC, including publications, news releases, strategic plans and, most notably, recent decisions and rules.
- Federal Trade Commission (FTC): Information on consumer protection, business guidance, competition, the economy and news and publications. Also includes rules, guides and advisory opinions.
- Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS): INS forms, relevant laws, regulations and information on the various activities of the INS.
- Maritime Administration (MARAD): General news and information on MARAD and a good set of links relating to US-flag carriers, American shipyards, American ports, maritime education and maritime history.
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA): Great information relevant to the weather and the environment.
- National Transportation and Safety Board (NTSB):Basic information about the NTSB and its activities, including some of its more prominent investigations and a list of publications regarding accident and investigation reports which can be ordered free of charge.
- National Weather Service: Data on the current weather (primarily US), forecasts, extensive climate data, including historical data, some for a fee.
- Marine Information: Interactive and searchable site providing access to recent analysis and forecast data for weather and marine information and archival information, some for a fee. Click on "Real Time Buoy Observations" and "Interactive Marine Observations" to access detailed, current marine information collected by sea buoys around the world.
- Office of Administrative Law Judges, Longshore Collection
: Information on the Longshore & Harbor Workers' Act.
SHIPPING AND MARITIME RESOURCES:
Law
Text of Relevant Sections of the US Code and US Constitution:
- US Constitution, Article III, Admiralty jurisdiction
- Coast Guard: Title 14
- Navigation and Navigable Waters: Title 33
- Protection of Environment: Title 40
- Shipping: Title 46
Text of Shipping Conventions and Treaties:
Collections:
- Various Marine and Coastal Treaties
- Natural Resources Law: Information on natural resources law, including supranational organizations, treaties and relevant statutes from a number of nations, including the United States.
- Florida State University Admiralty and Maritime Law Library: Collection of maritime statutes, regulations, governmental agencies, international treaties and more.
- Tulane Maritime Law Journal Links: Information on the Journal and a comprehensive list of useful maritime links.
- AdmiraltyLaw.com
: Useful links and information on maritime law from a Canadian perspective.
- Institute of Maritime Law: Good site with hundreds of international maritime links, including a number regarding the United Kingdom.
- University of Cape Town Marine & Shipping Law: Well-organized site with a great collection of links, many relating to the martime law of South Africa.
- International Commercial Law: Interesting site with lots of original material on commercial law, including trade and maritime law, mostly from an Australian point of view.
- Lloyd's of London Press Limited -- Maritime Law Brief: Contains original, topical articles regarding maritime law in the US, UK, South Africa and Greece, updated monthly. Nourse & Bowles, LLP is the sole author of the US portion of this interesting site.
SHIPPING AND MARITIME RESOURCES:
General Directories and Resources
- Cargo Port Links: Information and links to over 130 ports throughout the world.
- Directory of Transportation Resources: Searchable databases on a variety of subjects relevant to the transportation industry.
- Fairplay : One of the largest collections of maritime resources and links.
- Company Database: Searchable database providing basic information on maritime-related companies.
- Ports Database: Searchable database providing basic port information.
- Ships Database: Searchable database providing basic ship information, such as vessel type, deadweight, year of build and operator.
- Hieros Gamos - Transportation Site: Well-organized site covering a very broad range of issues falling under the categories of space, aviation and admiralty law.
- International Maritime Organization (IMO): News, briefings, summaries of IMO conventions and full-text IMO papers on a variety of relevant topics, as well as many links relating to the maritime activities of member states.
- Internet Waterway: Good commercial site for water sports and activities, including information on boating, sailing, fishing, travel and related resources.
- Maritime Historical Virtual Archives: Interesting maritime miscellanea, including images of historical ships and information on antiquarian bookshops, museums, shipmodels, masting and rigging, the duties of officers and crew and seamanship.
- Lloyd's Register: Searchable site includes information on classification, ship, offshore and land-based services, publications, products and news.
- NSnet: Very large collection of commercial and non-commercial maritime links.
- Seaports Infopages: Information and links to a number of sites regarding ports in Canada, the United States, Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and South America.
- Women's International Shipping and Trading Association: Comprehensive descriptions of the history and current events of this 25-year old shipping organization which now has chapters in over 22 countries.
- The Shipping Network: Developing site to include shipping news, financial reports and an annotated set of maritime links.
- Internet Maritime Links: Good set of maritime links.
- Directory of Transportation Resources: Broad collection of materials and links related to transportation in general.
- American Society of Naval Engineers: Information on ASNE, including links to naval engineering sites.
- The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers: Information on SNAME and links to annotated maritime sites, some available only to members.
- Maritime Links in the Net: Eclectic collection of maritime links.
- Lloyd's of London Press Limited: Wide-ranging site combines freely available and subscriber news and information relating to the maritime and shipping industry, including law, insurance, energy, casualties, commodities, ship schedules, employment opportunities and more.
- Maritime Law Brief: Contains original, topical articles regarding maritime law in the US, UK, South Africa and Greece, updated monthly. Nourse & Bowles, LLP is the exclusive author of the US law section.
P & I CLUB SITES
CARRIER SITES
SHIPBUILDER AND STEVEDORE SITES
- American Shipyard, Newport, Rhode Island
- Atlantic Marine, Inc., Jacksonville, Florida
- Bender Shipbuilding & Repair, Mobile, Alabama
- Cascade General, Portland, Oregon
- Colombo Engineering Enterprises, Colombo, Sri Lanka
- H.W. Ramberg, Inc., Brooklyn, New York
- Montreal Tankers, Montreal, Canada & Vietnam
- McDermott Shipbuilding, Morgan City, Louisiana & Veracruz, Mexico
- Newport News Shipbuilding, Newport News, Virginia
- Norfolk Shipbuilding & Drydock Corporation, Norfolk, Virginia
- Novolog Marine Terminal, Bucks County, Pennsylvania
- Peterson Builders Inc., Ingleside, Texas
- Seaway Diving, Cambell River, B.C., Canada
- Testbank, Southampton, U.K.
FEDERAL LAW AND RESOURCES
- US Constitution and Related Documents: Constitution in searchable form and scanned originals of key US documents. An award-winning site.
- United States Code: Entire USC searchable by keyword, citation, title and/or volume.
- Federal Register: Interesting site with searchable databases, including the most current Federal Register.
- Congressional Record in searchable database.
- Federal Rules of Evidence (FRE): FRE in a searchable database.
- Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP): FRCP in a searchable database.
- United States Judicial Branch Resources: Useful site with access to US statutes (including Popular Name Table), regulations, judicial opinions, court rules and law journals.
- Government Documents and Information Center: Many government documents, including administrative rules and regulations, census information, directories, patents and trademarks, statistics, technical reports and treaties.
- Government Printing Office (GPO): Searchable site with vast number of documents offered by the GPO.
- THOMAS -- Legislative Information on the Internet: Searchable database covering the entire US legislature, including the present Congress, bills, the congressional record, committee information and the legislative process.
- The Federal Web Locator: The primary directory to governmental and quasi-governmental web sites.
- US Federal Courts: Contains contact information and online collection of caselaw from the Supreme Court (1906-present), federal circuit courts (usually mid-1990s to present) and some state supreme and appeals courts.
STATE LAW AND RESOURCES
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Connecticut:
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GENERAL INTERNATIONAL LAW AND RESOURCES
- Guide to the World: Searchable database relating to hundreds of nations.
- International Law Materials: Great database, including large treaty collections, law journals and materials relating to GATT, NATO, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the European Union, and the United Nations and more.
- International Trade Law Materials: Very useful site, including key US laws relating to international trade, international trade agreements, international organizations and links to related sites.
- International Trade Law Monitor: Wealth of searchable information on international trade including treaties, conventions, and a comprehensive subject table of contents.
- Library of Congress Guide to Nations: Well-organized database listing numerous links to sites regarding hundreds of nations.
- World-Wide Government Information Services: Access thousands of sites on governments around the world, many in the language of the relevant nation. Best for information on Europe and the United States, including an extensive listing of US state sites.
- European Union: The main site of the EU, available in 11 languages, contains news and information on EU institutions, policies and law.
- Harvard Law School Law Library - International Collection: Excellent annotated links to foreign laws, treaties, international organizations, human rights, immigration and other areas of international law.
- National Law Center for Inter-American Free Trade: Latin American legal database includes links to related sites and trade reports (requires subsription).
- United Nations: The primarty site to the UN has lots of information and resources.
ARBITRATION RESOURCES
GENERAL LEGAL RESOURCES
- Chicago-Kent Index: Long list of law related indexes, covering a number of subjects.
- Cornell Law Legal Information Institute: One of our favorite sites for general legal resources and links to other good sites. An award-winning site.
- Hieros Gamos -- Law & Government Site: Huge site with comprehensive legal and governmental directories.
- Villanova Center for Information Law and Policy: Interesting collection of databases and online articles covering US government, international, general law, dispute resolution and more.
- Washburn University School of Law Index: Vast collection of searchable databases, including law libraries, statutes, news, legislation, phone numbers, politics, state law and humor.
NEWS and JOURNALS
- CNN: World, US, sports, technology and financial news.
- The Economist: Searchable site, containing back issues and current and recent news articles.
- Financial Times: Much of information on companies and markets, news and comments, although you must register to use the site.
- Journal of Commerce: Company index, recent back issues, relevant links and news on the transportation industry and global commerce.
- Journal of Maritime Law & Commerce: Basic information about the JMLC, including table of contents of latest issue and details on how to order a comprehensive index to this very useful publication.
- New York Times: Great for daily contents of the Times with periodic daily updates, although you must register to use the site.
- Tradewinds: Basic information about Tradewinds and news briefs.
TRAVEL RESOURCES
NEW YORK CITY RESOURCES
- Fodor's Guide to New York City Hotels: Short reviews for each hotel, credit card and price information and maps showing hotel locations in relation to main points of interest .
- New York City Directory: Well-organized, searchable site providing access to reviews, times, costs and locations (with maps) for Broadway shows, concerts, movies, sports, museums, restaurants, bars and a variety of other New York places and activities.
- New York City Index: Many searchable databases useful to the visitor, as well as the native New Yorker.
- New York City Official Website: Information on city government and city programs. An award winning site.
- The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey: Informative, searchable site, including maritime information, publications, maps and more.
GENERAL INTERNET RESEARCH TOOLS
- Directories
- Search Engines
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