Project deals with the legal regulations of freight forwarding contract mainly focusing on the provisions of Civil Code of the Republic of Lithuania as one of the main mandatory instruments regulating the contract mentioned above. The aim of this project is to indicate the peculiarities of freight forwarding services and contract. The article begins with analysis of functions and concept of freight forwarder. As well different titles used for freight forwarding contract are analyzed. The analysis continues with the discussion of freight forwarding contract elements such as contracting parties, their rights and obligations, form of the contract.
As well this article approaches comparative analyses of the contract of freight forwarding, carriage and other civil contracts. Freight forwarding and carriage contracts are clearly connected, however, this connection as well as differing aspects are not self evident and in some cases very problematic. The project suggests some essentials that can be used for contract legal evaluation. The article concludes that the freight forwarding contract dissociation from other contract and especially from carriage contract may determinate the liability of the party.
In case of international carriage of goods by road the interaction of the mandatory 1956 Geneva Convention on the contract for the International carriage of goods by Road (CMR) and the Lithuanian Civil Code provisions concerning the carriage and freight forwarding in the... [to full text]
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LABT_ETD/oai:elaba.lt:LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2006~D_20070130_224216-31244 |
| Date | 30 January 2007 |
| Creators | Valinskaitė, Indrė |
| Contributors | Baranauskas, Egidijus, Pačkauskaitė, Rasa, Švirinas, Daivis, Zališauskas, Saulius, Toločko, Vadimas, Mykolas Romeris University |
| Publisher | Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), Mykolas Romeris University |
| Source Sets | Lithuanian ETD submission system |
| Language | Lithuanian |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Master thesis |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2006~D_20070130_224216-31244 |
| Rights | Unrestricted |
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