The United Nations Convention on International Multimodal Transport of Goods of 24th May 1980 is an appropriate answer to the legal and political problems raised by through carriage and containerisation. / Traditionally, when goods were transferred from one mode to another they were also transferred to a new legal regime. There was no coherent legal regime governing carrier liability for goods moving in multimodal transport. The Convention creates a new liability system and confer international legal sanction on the responsibilities and immunities flowing from the multimodal transport contract. / The Convention compromises between the needs of developing countries--who called for provisions on regulation and control of multimodal operations at the domestic level--and the demands of developed countries--who wanted the convention to deal primarily with private law matters and pointed to the danger of conflicts with modal conventions. / The Convention is not yet in force but its provisions are the basis of current through carriage contracts.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.27470 |
| Date | January 1996 |
| Creators | Briant, Adeline M. (Adeline Marie) |
| Contributors | Milde, M. (advisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Laws (Institute of Air and Space Law.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 001549918, proquestno: MQ29845, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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