The making of a shipbuilding contract involves significant potential risks for both builder and customer. This book provides a source of expert guidance for those involved in drawing up, negotiating or enforcing shipbuilding contracts. In one volume it gives a basis for the successful conduct of contracts both at home and internationally. The book takes the reader through all the main aspects of a shipbuilding contract, including those where conflicts are most likely to arise, for example:- the making of the contract and its pricing, registration and security, the passing of property, time of delivery, builder's and customer's default causes and remedies and third party rights.