Freight Forwarding and Multimodal Transport Contracts, 2nd Edition

Freight Forwarding and Multimodal Transport Contracts, 2nd Edition, is a comprehensive guide to the law in relation to contract forms and terms created by operators, trade associations or international bodies such as the UN and used as a basis for trading conditions by freight forwarders, logistics suppliers, combined or multimodal transport operators and container operators.

The eagerly anticipated second edition examines the latest editions of contract forms and terms, both where their object is the supply or procurement of multimodal carriage, as well as where they are directed to the use of combined transport equipment (ie containers, swap bodies). Of particular prominence will be a detailed examination of the latest versions of conditions used by the principal UK forwarding, logistics, intermodal and container operators such as the British International Freight Association (BIFA) conditions 2005A and the current Freightliner Conditions as well as updates on many of the conditions in use and legal developments relevant to them, eg Road Haulage Association Conditions 2009, Maersk Conditions of Carriage, TT Club Conditions.

The new edition will be updated to include: all recent English case law such as:

• the important decision of the Court of Appeal in Geofizica DD v MMB International Ltd
• The “Green Island,” 2010, on the freight forwarders duty of care and the decision of the European Court of Justice in ICF v. Balkenende Oosthuisen BV 2009, on whether a rail charter is a contract for the carriage of goods for the purpose of the Rome Convention 1980
• Other legal developments impacting on the law, of relevance to forwarding and carriage contracts, will be included such as the Rome I & II Regulations on the law applicable to contractual and non-contractual obligation
• The potential impact of the new Rotterdam Rules (The UN Convention on Contracts for the International Carriage of Goods Wholly or Partly by Sea 2008)