Multimodal transports in the Unidted States and Europe: global or regional lliablility rules?

TY - JOUR

T1 - Multimodal transports in the Unidted States and Europe

T2 - global or regional lliablility rules?

AU - Ulfbeck, Vibe Garf

PY - 2009

Y1 - 2009

N2 - Transport law has traditionally been regarded as an international area of the law. The modern multimodal transport, combining different types of transports, has changed this. Multimodal transports are not regulated by any international conventions. In commercial practice, one liability model is preferred in Europe whereas another is preferred in the US. In this sense, modern transport law has become reginialized. The regionalization creates difficulties when goods are trasnported between the two regions. Neither the attempt to regulate multimodal transports in the new global UNCITRAL Convention for Carriage of Goods, Wholly or Partly by Sea (Rotterdam Rules), nor the proposal for common EU rules on multimodal transports will solve this problem.

AB - Transport law has traditionally been regarded as an international area of the law. The modern multimodal transport, combining different types of transports, has changed this. Multimodal transports are not regulated by any international conventions. In commercial practice, one liability model is preferred in Europe whereas another is preferred in the US. In this sense, modern transport law has become reginialized. The regionalization creates difficulties when goods are trasnported between the two regions. Neither the attempt to regulate multimodal transports in the new global UNCITRAL Convention for Carriage of Goods, Wholly or Partly by Sea (Rotterdam Rules), nor the proposal for common EU rules on multimodal transports will solve this problem.

M3 - Journal article

SN - 1048-3748

VL - 34

SP - 37

EP - 90

JO - Tulane Maritime Law Journal

JF - Tulane Maritime Law Journal

IS - 1

ER -