Maritime Collision In The Egyptian Law

Collision is a maritime danger that frequently occurs especially after the increase of the number of ships sailing in the seas, multiplication of their velocities and unification of navigation lines. Such leads to mass damages to persons and properties.

International rules were set to avoid collision in the seas, such rules were approved in the International Convention for Safety of Life At Sea (SOLAS) held on October 20, 1972 in London, and were approved in Egypt by virtue of the Presidential Decree No. 357 of the year 1986.

On September 23, 1910 Brussels Collision Convention unified the substantive rules related to maritime collision which were approved by Egypt by Law No. 22 of the year 1941, but it did not deal with the jurisdiction issue, though its utmost importance. Thus, unification of the rules related to the criminal civil jurisdictions was decided, whereupon two Conventions were concluded in this regard: the first is the international Convention for