ABSTRACT
The Rule is divided into four sections dealing with different subjects, namely: port charges; handling or discharge of cargo; storage and reloading cargo; and restrictions on allowances when the voyage is abandoned or the vessel condemned. The Rule had its origin in Resolution No. 6 passed at the Glasgow Conference of 1860: That the expense of warehouse rent at a port of refuge on cargo necessarily discharged there, the expense of reshipping it, and the outward port charges at that port, ought to be allowed in general average. The first paragraph of Rule X(a) was created at the 1890 Conference by adding to that part of the existing text dealing with the cost of leaving a port of refuge a form of words intended to be declaratory of maritime laws governing the cost of entry into a port of refuge or return to a port of loading.
