Transport Contracts in International Trade with Emphasis on Rules of UNCITRAL

This paper analyses the disparities existing in the current international transport rules and efforts of international organizations to fill gaps and or alleviate contradictions. Focus is put on international rules for the carriage of the goods by sea, air, rails and road and multimodal transport in negotiation under the auspices of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law(UNCITRAL ).It appears from the topics discussed in this paper that it would be just a dream to still think about unification of the rules applying to international transport contracts. Neither could it be taken for granted that harmonization of those rules will be achieved one day. In fact, the legalframework of each mode of carriage evolved in isolation of all others. The UNCITRAL convention tries to improve rules applying to contracts for international carriage of the goods by sea and other modes of transport having connection with the sea carriage.

Keywords:

UNCITRAL , International Transport , Contract , Multimodal , Carriage of the Goods