해상운송계약상 자율운항선박과 선박충돌에서의 민사책임에 관한 연구

A Study on Civil Liability in Collision between Maritime Autonomous Surface Ship and Other Ships under Sea Transport Contracts

Commercialization of Maritime Autonomous Surface Ship(MASS) is not far-future, considering the invention of MASS that requires a minimum of intervention of human being. Of course, there will be many issues on how much MASS will be developed in the early stage of commercialization and what the commercialized MASS will finally look like, but all the people seem to agree that we should improve the law governing MASS for commercialization. Thus, the fundamental question as to whether the unmanned ship is considered as the ship would be raised. In particular, the judge as to whether the unmanned ship is regarded as the ship can be the first step to reveal the legal obstacles as a result of the commercialization of the unmanned ship. Therefore, this study is to scrutinize the ship’s definition based on international treaties and conventions, municipal laws of the major maritime states and literature reviews relevant to the consideration of the ship’s definition in sea transport contract. And analyses the comparative discussion on the civil liability between Korean Laws and COLREG in collision. In addition, this study contributes to solving the legal issues by revealing the ship’s nature of the unmanned ship in applying to international or domestic regulations.