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A two days workshop hosted by the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport in Alexandria, Egypt for more than two hundred government and industry delegates and experts adopted a Alexandria Declaration, recommending to the Arab League transport and trade ministers to jointly sign the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the lnternational Carriage of Goods Wholly or Partly by Sea, knows as the Rotterdam Rules 2008.
The joint signing of the 21 Arab League countries would be a clear signal that the Arab region is dedicated to the developments of globalization and modernization in international maritime transport which comprise the future necessity of electronic transport documents, multimodalism, clarification of roles, responsibilities, duties and rights of all parties involved in international transport of goods, provisions to prevent fraudulent use of bills of lading, revision of liability regime and limitations.
15 Arab League countries are Djibouti, Egypt, lraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia and Yemen.
