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Disruptive Technologies: Legal and Insurance Implications in Shipping / Xinge Li
Swansea University Author: Xinge Li
DOI (Published version): 10.23889/SUthesis.69230
Abstract
Disruptive technologies could, potentially, have an immense impact on shipping in the near future, especially when Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASS) are introduced into commercial shipping. However, such technologies are also changing the way conventional ships and ports operate. These change...
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Swansea, Wales, UK
2025
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| Institution: | Swansea University |
| Degree level: | Doctoral |
| Degree name: | Ph.D |
| Supervisor: | Soyer, Baris ; Leloudas, Georgios |
| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa69230 |
| Abstract: |
Disruptive technologies could, potentially, have an immense impact on shipping in the near future, especially when Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASS) are introduced into commercial shipping. However, such technologies are also changing the way conventional ships and ports operate. These changes in shipping are a concern for insurers and there is a debate as to how insurance law and practice need to change to ensure that risks are appropriately assessed, and insurance policies are adjusted. This thesis intends to elaborate on i) the impact of such technologies on traditional marine insurance policies; and ii) new solutions that need to be implemented (how traditional legal doctrines and practices need to be amended). The author is of the opinion that such risks are still insurable but some fundamental changes in insurance law and practice will be needed in the years to come. The primary purpose of this thesis is to analyse parts of standard insurance clauses that need to be amended in particular to be able to offer effective insurance for ships that utilize disruptive technologies. The thesis will also consider the changes in risk allocation that might follow and how such risks could be reallocated in light of traditional insurance principles and doctrines. The thesis will also consider how the use of disruptive technologies will affect port operations and the liabilities that might emerge as a result with specific reference to the insurance position. |
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| Keywords: |
maritime law, marine insurance, MASS |
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Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |