Regulations Governing Multimodal Transport

International conventions applicable to Multi-modal transportation

• Transport by sea

• • International Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules of Law Relating to Bills of Lading, 1924 (Hague Rules);
  • Protocol to Amend the International Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules Relating to Bills of Lading 1924, (Hague/Visby Rules) 1968;
  • Protocol Amending the International Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules of Law Relating to Bills of Lading, 1924, as Amended by the Protocol of 1968, 1979;
  • United Nations Convention on the Carriage of Goods by Sea, 1978 (Hamburg Rules).

• Transport by road

• • • Convention on the Contract for the International Carriage of Goods by Road (CMR) 1956. 

• Transport by rail

• • • Uniform Rules Concerning the Contract for International Carriage of Goods by Rail (CIM), Appendix B to the Convention Concerning International Carriage by Rail (COTIF), May 1980. 
    • Protocol to amend CIM-COTIF, 1999. 

• Transport by air

• • Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules Relating to International Carriage by Air (Warsaw Convention), 1929;  
  • The Hague Protocol, 1955;
  • Montreal Protocol No. 4, 1975; 
  • The Montreal Convention, 1999