碩士 / 國立政治大學 / 法律科際整合研究所 / 107 / Ocean freight forwarders play important roles in the development of shipping and international trading industries of Taiwan. With the advancing of the information technology, ocean freight forwarders have been becoming maritime logistics service providers. They are not only as good partners with small and medium enterprises which relying on consolidation services but also with international technology companies which contracting supply chain solutions. Besides, according to UCP600, the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) has allowed that a set of Bill of Ladings which issued by a freight forwarder would be acceptable for Letter of Credit. It means that the status of freight forwarders in international trading is almost equal to shipping companies’. Furthermore, the definition of “carrier” in the Hamburg Rules and the Rotterdam Rules has no more required being a ship owner or charterer, so it is not impossible for freight forwarders to qualify as a “carrier” according to above Rules.
However, concerning the cargo liability of ocean freight forwarders in the Civil Law of Taiwan, the court must judge its legal status as a freight forwarder or, as a freight forwarder who undertakes a carrier’s rights and duties assumed by the Civil Law §664 first. And it would be a decisive decision for the liability of a freight forwarder. There are similar situations of freight forwarders’ dual legal roles in English law, Anglo-American law, and China law, but their judging criteria are more flexible than the Civil Law §664. Thus, the criteria for deciding the legal roles of freight forwarders is the core of this study.
In addition, it is common that ocean freight forwarders who undertake the carriers’ liabilities nowadays. But the cargo liabilities of such ocean freight forwarders are not stated in the Civil Law or the Maritime Law, it almost totally relies on the court’s explanation of the Civil Law §663. Therefore, this study would try to draw the practice situation and make it more clear through analyzing legal cases. Also, the study would review the influence of Maritime Law Amendment on the liability of ocean freight forwarders.
Last but not least, this study takes the judging criteria among different legal systems mentioned above and maritime practices into consideration, and suggests legislating for such emerging maritime logistics providers (including the ocean freight forwarders) which subcontract with ocean carriers to clarify their cargo liabilities.
ocean freight forwarders) which subcontract with ocean carriers to clarify their cargo liabilities.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TW/107NCCU5195001 |
| Date | January 2018 |
| Creators | Chen, Yin-Hsin, 陳尹昕 |
| Contributors | Shen, Chung-Lun, 沈宗倫 |
| Source Sets | National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan |
| Language | zh-TW |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Format | 230 |
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