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Now s 1(6) of COGSA 1971 provides that in the event of any conflict, the provisions of the Rules will

override express terms of the contract which are inconsistent with them. The object of the
subsection is ‘to confer on a voluntary contractual tie a statutory binding character’.61
The Veschroon.118 The principal relevance of the section is that, where it applies,
the Rules have statutory force and override any other term that might otherwise restrict or
exclude the carrier’s obligations under the Rules

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