Multimodal features of the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Carriage of Goods Wholly or Partly by Sea

Abstract

This article considers multimodal aspects of the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Carriage of Goods Wholly or Partly by Sea, namely the possibility of this Convention to govern not only sea freight, but also multimodal carriage of goods. Given these multimodal features, the article considers the possibility of collisions between this convention and other conventions, governing carriage of goods by other transport modes (Montreal Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules for International Carriage by Air of 1999, Convention on the Contract for the International Carriage of Goods by Road of 1956, Convention Concerning International Carriage by Rail of 1980, Budapest Convention on the Contract for the Carriage of Goods by Inland Waterway).