Multimodal Transport Law

by Michiel Spanjaart

Overview

An accessible introduction to multimodal contracts of carriage, Multimodal Transport Law works from general principles toward specific, technical problems. Adopting an international approach, it addresses such key topics as:

• Contracts of carriage
• Transport documents
• The parties to a contract of carriage
• International conventions on the carriage of goods
• Multimodal situations covered by unimodal conventions
• Conflict of laws
• The rules applicable to the individual legs of multimodal contracts of carriage
• The Rotterdam Rules

Providing a close examination of the relevant rules, regulations and case law, this is essential reading for law students, useful for claims handlers and practitioners, and of interest for academics and legislators seeking a better appreciation of multimodal contracts of carriage.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415789820
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/22/2017
Pages:	312
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Michiel Spanjaart is an advocate at the law firm Kneppelhout Korthals in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and an assistant professor at the Erasmus School of Law in Rotterdam. He also teaches multimodal transport law at the National University of Singapore.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Contracts of carriage
3. Transport documents
4. The parties to the contract of carriage
5. International conventions on the carriage of goods
6. Multimodal situations governed by unimodal conventions
7. The law applicable in the absence of a mandatory convention
8. The rules applicable to the individual legs of multimodal contracts of carriage
9. The Rotterdam Rules

Annexes

1 Uniform Rules Concerning the Contract of International Carriage of Goods by Rail (CIM – Appendix B to the Convention) (CIM 1999)

2 The Hague Rules as Amended by the Brussels Protocol 1968 (HVR)

3 Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules for International Carriage by Air (MC)

4 The Convention relative au contrat de transport international des Marchandises par Route (CMR)

5 Budapest Convention on the Contract for the Carriage of Goods by Inland Waterway (CMNI)