중국은 현재 해상법 개정작업을 시작하여, 개정안초안에 대한 전문가의견수렴단계에 있다. 해상여객운송인의 책임에 대하여, 개정안초안은 아테네협약 2002년 의정서의 일부 원칙을 수용하였는데, 크루즈운송인의 의무와 책임에 관한 내용을 증가하였다. 이종책임체계, 크루즈운송인의 의무, 강제보험과 직접 청구권 등 규정을 신설하였는바, 이는 크루즈여객에 대하여 강력한 보호를 제공하고자 하고 있으며, 여객으로 하여금 권리의 존재여부를 쉽게 알도록 하고 있다. 그러나 개정안초안의 크루즈운송인책임제도는 아직 미흡한 점이 있는바 이를 보완할 필요가 있다. 본 고는 해상법개정안초안의 크루즈운송인책임제도와 현행 해상법 및 <아테네협약 2002년 의정서> 내용에 대한 비교연구를 통하여 중점적으로 크루즈운송인의 책임기간과 의무, 크루즈운송중 부동한 운송기간운송인의 책임에 대한 법률적용, 책임기초, 책임제한, 강제책임보험 및 강제책임보험인에 대한 직접 청구권 등 문제를 규명하고자 한다.

As a matter of fact, the document which has been developed to resolve the obvious conflicts between the interests of buyer and seller is the bill of lading. The bill of lading provides the seller with some security against default by the buyer and the buyer with some assurance of performance of the seller before the buyer is required to make payment. So to speak, the B/L provides some extent protection for both seller and buyer. This is a study on the construction of Liner Bill of Lading(Code name : CONLINEBILL) adopted by BIMCO(The Baltic and International Maritime Conference) and is using a basic bill of lading in the liner ship's operation. In this study, the writer makes a wider and deeper study of rights and obligations of Contract Parties by means of the rules of construction, specially focusing the Carrier's liability under Carriage of Goods by Sea Act 1971(COGSA 1971), Hague-Visby Rules and Korea Commercial Law.

Since 1979, the People's Republic of China has been opeining their marke tprogressively toward all over the world for developing its own domestic economy and international trade. China also has paid a great attention to the international maritime transport due to the fact that its volume of international trade has increased continuoulsy. Under such circumstance, the Chinese Maritime Code was issued in 1992 in which the regulation with regard to carrier's liability occupied an important position. The author, therefore, selected this issue for demonstration of the legal proinciples about carrier's liability which is provided in the Chinese Maritime Code. The study on the issue is under guidance of related international conventions. On the basis of the above, the differences between the Code and relevant conventions have been pointed out in order to make the people in the field of shipping understood for legal system with regard to carrier's liability in China which is a great potential partner of Korea in shipping and trade.