The carrier’s liability for damage to cargo in multimodal transport, with special focus on the Rotterdam Rules (original) (raw)

The turn of the 20 th and 21 st centuries has been the period of increasing importance of multimodal transport in commercial relations. This transport is characterized by using at least two different modes under the contract of carriage of cargo concluded between different countries 1. The development of this mode of transport entails the emergence of numerous problems, not only of technical, but also of legal nature. These problems include, in particular, the decision on the liability of the carrier in individual modes of transport, where international unimodal conventions are applicable. The most important of them are such conventions as the CMR Convention for the Carriage of Goods by Road 2 , COTIF-CIM Convention for the Carriage of Goods