ABSTRACT
The York-Antwerp Rules (YAR) occupy a unique position in international maritime law. The reformers, fortunately, persisted, and at a further conference held in Antwerp in 1877 where the York Rules were amended and a twelfth Rule added to them, a definite date was adopted for the incorporation thereof into bills of lading, charterparties and policies of insurance, namely 1 January 1879. In the event, most American shipping companies claused their bills of lading to provide only partial application of the York-Antwerp Rules 1924, along the following lines: General average shall be adjusted, stated and settled, according to Rules one to fifteen inclusive, seventeen to twenty two inclusive and Rule F of York-Antwerp Rules 1924. In September 1967 the Association Internationale des Dispacheurs Européens (AIDE) set up a Commission, under the chairmanship of Dr Schadee of Rotterdam, to study proposals for the simplification of the YAR.
