EDITORIAL
The 'best endeavours' obligation of salvors
RHIDIAN THOMAS

ARTICLES
Multimodal transport after the Rotterdam Rules: will it work this time?
MANUEL FRANCO
Abogado, Cuatrecasas, Gonçalves Pereira, Madrid

Ransom piracy and time charterparties
PAUL TODD
Professor of Commercial and Maritime Law, University of Southampton

My platform, my state: the principality of sealand in international law
VINCENT P COGLIATI-BANTZ
TC Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland, Australia

ANALYSIS AND COMMENT
Prorogation of jurisdiction under Article 23(1)(a) Council Regulation (EC) 44/2001 in the Italian jurisdiction
DR ANDREA GIARDINI
IF P&C Insurance Ltd v Allianz Spa and Assicurazioni Generali SpA (The Front Comor)
Corte di Cassazione (Italian Supreme Court), Joint Civil Chambers, Judgment order 09/03/2012, n 3693