El transporte marítimo de mercancías ha logrado abrirse un hueco cada vez más grande en el comercio internacional a lo largo de los años, llegando a convertirse en una modalidad imprescindible a la hora de desarrollar esta actividad. En el presente trabajo se analizará desde un punto de vista global el transporte de mercancías y de manera particular el transporte de mercancías por mar así como la modalidad contractual básica en la que se apoya su desarrollo (el contrato de transporte) y los documentos pertinentes para efectuar concretamente el modo de transporte de mercancías que suele conocerse como en régimen de conocimiento de embarque. En efecto, dentro de los documentos con valor jurídico que subyacen a la actividad de transporte aquí analizada el conocimiento de embarque es posiblemente el más habitual y seguro, motivo por el que lo hemos elegido para desarrollar nuestro trabajo. Palabras clave Transporte marítimo de mercancías, comercio internacional, conocimiento de embarque, contrato de transporte, documento de transporte.

In 2007, the International Max Planck Research School for Maritime Affairs together with the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS), both based in Hamburg, decided to establish an annual lecture series, the "Hamburg Lectures on Maritime Affairs" - giving distinguished scholars and practitioners the opportunity to present and discuss recent developments in this field. The present volume - the third in the series - collects the lectures held between 2011 and 2013 inter alia by Andrew Dickinson, Yvonne Marie Dutton, Bevan Marten, Andreas Maurer, Irini Papanicolopulu, Časlav Pejovic, Juan L. Pulido, Andrés Recalde Castells, Thomas J. Schoenbaum and Rüdiger Wolfrum.

This edition of the World Bank has been revised and expanded by the Terminology Unit in the Languages Services Division of the World Bank in collaboration with the English, Spanish, and French Translation Sections. The Glossary is intended to assist the Bank's translators and interpreters, other Bank staff using French and Spanish in their work, and free-lance translator's and interpreters employed by the Bank. For this reason, the Glossary contains not only financial and economic terminology and terms relating to the Bank's procedures and practices, but also terms that frequently occur in Bank documents, and others for which the Bank has a preferred equivalent. Although many of these terms, relating to such fields as agriculture, education, energy, housing, law, technology, and transportation, could be found in other sources, they have been assembled here for ease of reference. A list of acronyms occurring frequently in Bank texts (the terms to which they refer being found in the Glossary) and a list of international, regional, and national organizations will be found at the end of the Glossary.

Use of and trade in wildlife is a fact of life for human society around the globe. Article IV of the CITES Convention requires that exporting countries restrict trade in Appendix II species to levels that are not detrimental either to species? survival, or to their role within the ecosystems in which they occur (known as the ?non-detriment finding?). Based on two workshops convened by IUCN to develop some pragmatic assistance for Scientific Authorities, this publication presents the background to the development of the non-detriment finding checklist and explains how the checklist itself is designed to work, in the hope that Scientific Authority staff will take and develop the parts of the approach that they find useful.