Parties and Terms of Engagement in Rail Transport

The rights, role and duties involved in rail freight

• • The parties involved in rail transport may be broadly divided into two categories: the carrier (rail Operator) and the customers and their rights roles and duties are guided by the both national and regional laws or by the uniform laws that govern the carriage of goods by rail represented in the following articles:

• Article 1 Scope

• Article 2 Exceptions from scope

• Article 10 National law

• Article 11 Making of the contract of carriage

• Article 12 Consignment note

• Article 50 Liability of the railway for its servant: 

• Article 51 Other actions:

• Article 52 Ascertainment of partial loss or damage: 

• Article 53 Claims