1st Edition

Combined Transport Documents A Handbook of Contracts for the Combined Transport Industry

By John Richardson Copyright 2000
    480 Pages
    by Informa Law from Routledge

    Combined Transport Documents provides a comprehensive guide to combined transport or multi-modal contracts. It examines the main contracts that deal with combined transport logically, from those concerned with the procuring of tonnage through to those that deal with general average and salvage. It also focuses on the complicated chains of indemnity particular to multimember consortium operations and explains in substantial detail a recommended draft bill of lading contract of carriage which the author himself developed. Combined Transport Documents provides a comprehensive guide to combined transport or multi-modal contracts. It examines the main contracts that deal with combined transport logically, from those concerned with the procuring of tonnage through to those that deal with general average and salvage. It also focuses on the complicated chains of indemnity particular to multi-member consortium operations and explains in substantial detail a recommended draft bill of lading contract of carriage which the author himself developed.

    Chapter 1.  Procuring tonnage - charter party  Chapter 2.   operating agreements  Chapter 3.  Slot charters  Chapter 4.  Container and containerspace hiring agreements (consortium operations) Chapter 5.  container leasing and equipment handover agreement (general operation)  Chapter 6.   contacts of carriage (Bill of lading, waybills)  Chapter 7.  Standard trading conditions  Chapter 8.  General average and salvage (guidance notes for consortium operation)  Chapter 9.  Letters of indemnity.

    Biography

    John Richardson