A Comparative Study of Ship Seaworthiness Between Australia and Indonesia

Abstract

Since this era is ever changing and the International Business Transaction is developing in a very rapid manner,
there are a lot of commercial transactions between parties through delivery of a cargo by using a vessel to transport his cargo because it can amount lot of items. However a problem starts to rise whenever the standard of a vessel to be used in a contract between parties is questionable when the vessel that has been used is sinking, broken during the stages of voyage or failing to deliver the cargo properly. In this journal the writer wants to uphold and describe the legal definition of due diligence in maritime law especially concerning the standard of vessel to be considered as a vessel that can be fit to enter a contract for delivering the cargo in general also by comparing the standard of seaworthiness in Australia and Indonesia supported by the cases that has been happened in each countries.