Schiffsunternehmen und Schiffsüberlassungsverträge

Victoria Athanassopoulou deals with the modern forms of economic ship chartering from the perspective of the ship as an enterprise. Her concept of the ship as an enterprise provides a new approach to the development of the merchant shipping law. She sees a ship as an economic unit and provides a new theoretical basis for the examination and the interpretation of the legal concepts »Reeder« and »Ausrüster« in German law. The author analyzes the various forms of ship charters and their practical application in international contracts. She shows the differences between bareboat charterers, time charterers and ship managers and their position as service providers or owners of ships as commercial enterprises.