本条款设置的目的是保护承运人在海牙维斯比规则下对货物权益人追偿的合同权利。
The Clause is designed to preserve the protection which the carrier has under the Hague-Visby Rules by giving a contractual indemnity against the cargo interests.
目前国际上在规范海上货物运输方面并存了三个公约，分别是海牙规则、维斯比规则和汉堡规则。
Nowadays there are three international maritime conventions in the world, which are the Hague rules, the Visby rules and the Hamburg rules.
海牙规则、海牙—维斯比规则和汉堡规则的并存，加之各国制定各自的海上货物运输法律，导致了国际海上货物运输法律统一的局面分崩离析。
The coexistence of Hague Rules, Visby Rules, Hamburg Rules, as well as laws of carriage of goods by sea of different countries, has broken the unification of international laws in this field.
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