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
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