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Multimodal Transportation Under The Rotterdam Rules: Legal Implications For European Carriage Of Goods And The Quest For Uniformity, Olena Bokareva
Multimodal Transportation Under The Rotterdam Rules: Legal Implications For European Carriage Of Goods And The Quest For Uniformity, Olena Bokareva
Olena Bokareva
The increase in intercontinental trade and the modernization of transport infrastructure has transformed the traditional patterns of carriage of goods globally. The transportation by land precedes and follows the sea carriage. These developments led to the growing use of multimodal transportation, which simplifies the door-to-door delivery of goods by different modes of transport under a single contract. The existing transport conventions deal with one specific mode of transport, such as sea, rail, air and inland waterways, while an international mandatory convention related to multimodal transportation is lacking. The previous attempts to create an international legal instrument to govern this type …