Current Issues in Freight Forwarding: Law and Logistics

Foreword 
Preface 
Table of Cases
Index of Legislation

INTRODUCTION 
IS THE LAW OF TRANSPORT AND FREIGHT FORWARDING LAGGING BEHIND IN THE MODERN DEVELOPMENT OF COMMERCIAL LAW?
Jan Ramberg


CHAPTER 1 
FREIGHT FORWARDER - AGENT OR CARRIER - CATEGORIES OF FORWARDING CONTRACTS
P M Bugden

CHAPTER 2
LEGAL CONCEPTUALISATIONS OF THE FREIGHT FORWARDER: 
SOME COMPARATIVE REFLECTIONS ON THE DISUNIFIED LAW OF FORWARDING
Frank Smeele

CHAPTER 3
THE CARRIER AS DESIGNER OF TRANSPORT
Wouter Verheyen 

CHAPTER 4
UNDERSTANDING THE AGREEMENTS OF COMMERCIAL PEOPLE
D Rhidian Thomas 

CHAPTER 5
INTERNATIONAL MULTIMODAL TRANSPORTATION IN THE UNITED STATES
Martin Davies 

CHAPTER 6
LIABILITY ISSUES IN RESPECT OF FIO AND OTHER PART PERFORMANCE 
OF INTERNATIONAL CARRIAGE BY CARGO
Erik Røsæg

CHAPTER 7
SOLAS: CONTAINER WEIGHT VERIFICATION: THE ANSWER TO OVERWEIGHT AND WRONGLY DECLARED WEIGHT OF CONTAINERS?
Arnold J van Steenderen

CHAPTER 8
A FORWARDING CONTRACT - BETWEEN ORDER AND ACCEPTANCE - AND AFTERWARDS?
Adry Poelmans 

CHAPTER 9 
THE UNFAIR CONTRACT TERMS ACT 1977 AND CARRIERS' UK SUB CONTRACTORS
Simon Baughen 

CHAPTER 10
RECOURSE CLAIMS BETWEEN CARRIERS: ANOTHER OBSTACLE TO INTERMODALITY?
Simone Lamont-Black 

CHAPTER 11
THE LAW APPLICABLE TO FREIGHT-FORWARDING CONTRACTS: 
THE IMPLICATIONS OF HAEGER & SCHMIDT
Cécile Legros

CHAPTER 12
JURISDICTION OVER FREIGHT-FORWARDING CONTRACTS 
Determining the international competent court in the context of uniform transport law and European, international and German law on jurisdiction
Johannes Schilling 

CHAPTER 13
CHOICE OF COURT AGREEMENTS VIS-À-VIS THIRD PARTIES
Veronica Ruiz Abou-Nigm 

CHAPTER 14
NEW ROAD CARRIERS - LIABILITY REGIME IN CROATIA AND LESSONS FROM THE OLD NORMATIVE ANOMALIES FOR THE NEIGHBOURING COUNTRIES
Nikoleta Radionov 

CHAPTER 15
ADSP 2017 - THE GERMAN FREIGHT FORWARDER'S STANDARD TERMS AND CONDITIONS - 
JOINTLY RECOMMENDED CONTRACT TERMS ONCE MORE
Rechtsanwälte Detlef Neufang and Hubert Valder
Translated and abbreviated by Simone Lamont-Black

CHAPTER 16
THE FREIGHT FORWARDER'S LEGAL POSITION IN THE NORDIC COUNTRIES 
IN LIGHT OF THE STANDARD TERMS NSAB 2015
Henrik Thal Jantzen, Tine Fomsgaard

CHAPTER 17
IRISH FREIGHT FORWARDERS' TERMS AND THEIR INCORPORATION INTO CONTRACTS UNDER IRISH LAW 
Helen Noble 

APPENDICES

APPENDIX 1 Integrated Services in the Intermodal Chain (ISIC) 2005 - Final Report Task B 
APPENDIX 2 United Nations Convention on International Multimodal Transport of Goods 1980 
APPENDIX 3 Convention on the Contract for the International Carriage of Goods by Road (CMR) 1956 
APPENDIX 4 Appendix B to the Convention concerning International Carriage by Rail (COTIF) 1999 - Uniform Rules concerning the Contract of International Carriage of Goods by Rail (CIM)
APPENDIX 5 Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules for International Carriage by Air (Montreal Convention) 1999
APPENDIX 6 The Hague-Visby Rules - International Convention for the Unification of certain Rules relating to Bills of Lading of 1924 (Hague Rules) as amended by the Brussels Protocol 1968 (Visby Protocol)
APPENDIX 7 Budapest Convention on the Contract for the Carriage of Goods by Inland Waterways (CMNI) 2000  
APPENDIX 8 FIATA Model Rules for Freight Forwarding Services 
APPENDIX 9 British International Forwarding Association (BIFA) Standard Trading Conditions 2017 
APPENDIX 10 Irish International Freight Association (IIFA) Standard Trading Conditions (1989 edition) and Warehousing Conditions (1996 edition) 
APPENDIX 11 General Conditions of the Nordic Association of Freight Forwarders (NSAB 2015)
APPENDIX 12 The German Freight Forwarder's Standard Terms and Conditions (ADSp) 2017
APPENDIX 13 BIMCO MULTIDOC 2016
APPENDIX 14 BIMCO COMBICONBILL 2016 

Index