New solutions for multimodal carriage and the use of transport documents

1. New solutions for multimodal carriageand the use of transport documents Professor Erik Røsæg Nordisk institutt for sjørett erik.rosag@jus.uio.no folk.uio.no/erikro

2. Documents – negotiability • The different aspects of negotiability • Negotiability = transferability • Non-negotiable documents • Electronic documents

3. Electronic documents • Is there a problem? • How it works • Signature monopoly

4. Identity of carrier • Current law • The new rule in Art. 37

5. Duty to check cargo before signing transport document • Dutycarried on • Clarification

6. Misdescription– estoppel • All documents • Reliance

7. Misdescription – tort liability • The current law • The limitation problem

8. Good faith • Good faith • Duty to cooperate • International practice

9. Environment • Rule of interpretation • Slow steaming

10. Art 82 • The principle • Air carriage • Road carriage • Rail carriage • Inland waterways carriage

11. Art 26 • Similar to CMR Art. 2 • Only liability, limitation of liability and time limits • Hypothetical contracts • Localized damage • International conventions • Scope of the conventions?

12. Multimodal principles • Restrictive construction of unimodal conventions • Parties to determine background law • Freedom of contract • One transport, one regime • The recourse trap

13. A uniform multimodal document? • The RR documents are generic • Certain rules are associated with the documents … • but that does not matter if we are outside the scope of the conventions