Port State Jurisdiction Over Vessel Information: Territoriality, Extraterritoriality and the Future of Shipping Regulation

(2016) 31 International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law 470

Victoria University of Wellington Legal Research Paper No. 4/2018

28 Pages Posted: 25 Oct 2017 Last revised: 8 Feb 2018

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Bevan Marten

Victoria University of Wellington, Te Herenga Waka - Faculty of Law

Date Written: June 4, 2016

Abstract

This article discusses the use of port state jurisdiction to impose information requirements on visiting foreign vessels. It analyses the issues surrounding the regulation of information on a territorial basis, with particular reference to the traditional maritime zone-based approach taken in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea among other maritime conventions. It argues that port states have extensive options for requesting information from vessels in port, even if that information relates to matters arising beyond the state’s maritime zones (as in the case of the European Union’s 2015 regime for monitoring vessel C02 emissions), without making any excessive claim to extraterritorial jurisdiction. After discussing the manner in which port states may choose to deploy these options in practice, the article addresses some broader trends connected with the increasing automation of shipping and the ever-wider availability of shipping-related information, and the impact these developments may have on international law and shipping regulation in the long term.

Keywords: port states, shipping, information, territoriality, extraterritorial, jurisdiction

JEL Classification: K33

Suggested Citation

Marten, Bevan, Port State Jurisdiction Over Vessel Information: Territoriality, Extraterritoriality and the Future of Shipping Regulation (June 4, 2016). (2016) 31 International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law 470, Victoria University of Wellington Legal Research Paper No. 4/2018, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3059249

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