Straits of Corfu Straits of Corfu The Straits of Corfu or Corfu Channel is the narrow body of water along the coasts of Albania and Greece to the east separating these two countries from the Greek island of Corfu on the west. The channel is a passage from the Adriatic Sea on the north to the Ionian Sea that is used by shipping local to Albania and Greece to the ports of Saranda, Albania, and Igoumenitsa, Greece, and by local and tourist traffic in Albania and from the Greek mainland to Corfu, in addition to some international traffic from the Adriatic. The Corfu
Book of the Consulate of the Sea called " Ordinacions de Ribera", which established norms for policing harbours and coastal waters." The merit of the "Book of the Consulate of the Sea" is that it is the first work to collect the scattered laws and customs of Roman, Greek, Byzantine, Rhodian, Italian, French and Spanish maritime rights"." Until the publication of the " Ordonnance de la Marine " in France in 1681, the "Book of the Consulate of the Sea" was the code of maritime law in force throughout the Mediterranean. In Spain it continued in use until the introduction of the Spanish "Commercial Code." "The Book