The adjudication rule of port operators claiming heavy rainfall exemption

Port operators shall not invoke limitations of liability or exemptions clauses in Maritime Law to exempt their liabilities arising from heavy rain. But they should rely on force majeure regulations in civil law and combine the facts and regulations to check the facts whether meet constitutive requirements of force majeure or not. Whereas in the circumstance of heavy rainfall has been predicted and the damage might have been avoided by reasonable measures, port operators shall not claim exemption.