New solutions for multimodal carriage and the use of transport documents oProfessor Erik Røsæg...

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New solutions for multimodal carriage and the use of transport documents o Professor Erik Røsæg o Nordisk institutt for sjørett o [email protected] o folk.uio.no/erikro

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New solutions for multimodal carriageand the use of transport documents

oProfessor Erik RøsægoNordisk institutt for sjørett

[email protected]/erikro

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Documents – negotiability

o The different aspects of negotiability

oNegotiability = transferabilityoNon-negotiable documentso Electronic documents

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Electronic documents

o Is there a problem?oHow it workso Signature monopoly

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Identity of carrier

o Current lawo The new rule in Art. 37

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Duty to check cargo before signing transport

document

oDuty carried ono Clarification

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Misdescription – estoppel

o All documentso Reliance

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Misdescription – tort liability

o The current lawo The limitation problem

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Good faith

oGood faithoDuty to cooperateo International practice

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Environment

o Rule of interpretationo Slow steaming

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Art 82

o The principleo Air carriageo Road carriageo Rail carriageo Inland waterways carriage

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Art 26

o Similar to CMR Art. 2oOnly liability, limitation of

liability and time limitsoHypothetical contractso Localized damageo International conventionso Scope of the conventions?

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Multimodal principles

o Restrictive construction of unimodal conventions

o Parties to determine background law

o Freedom of contractoOne transport, one regimeo The recourse trap

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A uniform multimodal document?

o The RR documents are generico Certain rules are associated with

the documents …o but that does not matter if we

are outside the scope of the conventions