A pirataria marítima e as suas consequências nos contratos de seguros marítimos

Abstract

The present monographic work has as a main goal to analyze the impacts generated by sea piracy on the contracts of sea insurances. For this purpose, initially, it shows necessary to argue about the historical development of sea piracy, its concept and modus operandi on the present days, such as its regulation on the international legal order, in a way of punctuate the reflexes of the lack of an effective international regulation on the practice of piracy on the present days. It becomes mister to comprehend the types of sea insurances existents to crafts and cargo transportation, going through the study of the general clauses of the sea insurances of international transportation of crafts and cargos, to the analysis of the institute of sea faults, so in the end be verified the specific clauses on each one of these contracts. Finally, it searches to understand the expansion or modernization of sea piracy as a generator fact of new clauses on contracts of sea insurances, acknowledging the sea piracy as a practice that threats sea security and observing its consequences on the economy and in the market of sea insurance, in a way of push the creation of new clauses and methods of prevention to piracy.