MEMORANDUM CONCERNING CERTAIN LEGAL MATTERS IN CONNECTION WITH INTERNATIONAL REGULATIONS FOR COMBINED TRANSPORT

NOTE AU SUJET DE CERTAINES QUESTIONS JURIDIQUES RELATIVES A LA REGLEMENTATION INTERNATIONALE DES TRANSPORTS COMBINES

The OCTI was invited by the Secretariat of the UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development) to take part in the drafting of a Convention for Multi-modal International Transport. This document is the memorandum submitted by the OCTI to the UNCTAD in April 1974. For the Convention, the UNCTAD envisages: balanced international regulations where private law is concerned; technical and economic organisation of combined transport so that it in no way impinges on the economic, political and social interests of the countries where industry uses these transport chains. The OCTI document shows up the practical difficulties of any convention with the second of these two aims and deals with the various features covered by the first point; A) Types of organisation for international combined transport, transport organised by the dispatcher with separate contracts for each handler, ETC transport (by Combined Transport Contractors), through transport contracts signed with a group of carriers contributing to the transport chain; B) Scope of the proposed convention; C) Systems of responsibility to be considered in connection with the proposed convention; D) Principles of uniform responsibility.

• Publication Date: 1974-7

Language

• Undetermined

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 126-144
• Serial:
  • Bulletin des Transports Internat par Chemin de Fer
  • Volume: 82

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Cooperation; Documents; Intermodal transportation; International; International compacts; International trade; Regulations; Waybills
• Uncontrolled Terms: Documentation
• Old TRIS Terms: Government regulations; Intermodal operations
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Law; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00095203
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: International Railway Documentation, Selection of
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 15 1975 12:00AM