The problem of universal acceptability of the Convention on a Code of Conduct for Liner Conferences

In light of the Reveiw Conference on the UN Code of Conduct for Liner Conferences to be in November 1988, this paper highlights some of the Major problems impinging upon the universal acceptability of the Code. These include the reservation (known as the Brussels Package) by EC and certain other OECD countries that discriminates aganist developing and Socialist countries; reservations of a controversial nature with regard to the establishment of joint shipping lines established on the basis of intergovernmental bilateral agreement; and the question of compctition by non-conference lines that diminishes the share of cargo available to National Lines by virtue of the Code.