UNCITRAL's Work on Transport Law

This is an index of some information and URLs relevant to UNCITRAL's work on Transport Law. The purpose of the website is to provide texts and background materials relating to the work. It is provided by the Scandinavian Institute of Maritime Law.
Documents are added as time permits. Some files are in the .pdf format.
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  • Summary of Issues (in Norwegian)
  • Documents at the UNCITRAL website
  • The Sundvolden seminar March 2003 (in Norwegian)(SIML)
  • The London seminar February 2004 (CMI)

    Background materials

  • UNeDocs

  • Sea transport: BIMCO charterparties and bills of lading
  • Sea transport: Hague-Visby Rules
  • Sea transport: Hamburg Rules

  • Transport by inland waterways: Budapest Convention

  • Rail transport: CIM

  • Road transport: CMR
  • CMR Comment

  • Air transport: Montreal Convention
  • Air transport: Warsaw system

  • Multimodal transport: UN Convention
  • Multimodal transport: UNCTAD/ICC Rules
  • Multimodal transport: UNCTAD Report

  • Port operators: UN Convention

  • Freight forwarding: FIATA
  • Freight forwarding: FIATA Model Rules
  • Freight forwarding: NSAB
  • Freight forwarding: FIATA Documents
  • Freight forwarding: FIATA b/l
  • Freight forwarding: FIATA waybill: front - back

  • Electronic trade: CMI Rules
  • Electronic trade: Bolero
  • Electronic trade: UN/CEFACT
  • Electronic trade: Digital Signatures Directive
  • Electronic trade: E-commerce Directive
  • Electronic trade: UNCITRAL ongoing work
  • Electronic trade: UNCITRAL adopted texts

    Work of other bodies

  • CMI work
  • US: Senate draft COGSA, 1999
  • EU: Intermodal transportation and carrier liability
  • EU: Competence issues

    Papers

  • Willian Tetley: " Reform of Carriage of Goods - the UNCITRAL draft & Senate COGSA ’99"
  • Hannu Honka: "The Legislative Future of Carriage of Goods by Sea. Could It Not Be the UNCITRAL Draft? An Academic's View"
  • Erling Eide: Rettsøkonomiske analyser av forslaget til ny sjøtransportkonvensjon