Simone Lamont-Black, Scotland, Simone.Lamont-Black@ed.ac.uk
Edited by Dr. Simone Lamont-Black and Professor D Rhidian Thomas, and including contribution by a number of Forwarderlaw Members, this new book features 17 expert contributions on the topic of freight forwarding and contains 14 Appendices designed to make the relevant international text in form of conventions and standard trading conditions accessible to the reader. The jurisdictions covered in the book include: Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Sweden, The Netherlands and United Kingdom. The Foreword was written by the Rt Hon Lord Glennie and the chapters and contributors are:
| Introduction | IS THE LAW OF TRANSPORT AND FREIGHT FORWARDING LAGGING BEHIND IN THE MODERN
DEVELOPMENT OF COMMERCIAL LAW? Jan Ramberg |
| Chapter 1 | FREIGHT FORWARDER – AGENT OR CARRIER? CATEGORIES OF FORWARDING CONTRACTS
P M Bugden |
| Chapter 2 | LEGAL CONCEPTUALISATIONS OF THE FREIGHT FORWARDER: SOME COMPARATIVE REFLECTIONS ON THE DISUNIFIED LAW OF FORWARDING
Frank Smeele |
| Chapter 3 | THE CARRIER AS DESIGNER OF TRANSPORT
Wouter Verheyen |
| Chapter 4 | UNDERSTANDING THE AGREEMENTS OF COMMERCIAL PEOPLE
D Rhidian Thomas |
| Chapter 5 | INTERNATIONAL MULTIMODAL TRANSPORTATION IN THE UNITED STATES
Martin Davies |
| Chapter 6 | LIABILITY IN RESPECT OF FIO AND OTHER PART PERFORMANCE OF INTERNATIONAL CARRIAGE BY CARGO
Erik Rosæg |
| Chapter 7 | SOLAS: CONTAINER WEIGHT VERIFICATION: THE ANSWER TO OVERWEIGHT AND WRONGLY DECLARED WEIGHT OF CONTAINERS?
Arnold J van Steenderen |
| Chapter 8 | A FORWARDING CONTRACT – BETWEEN ORDER AND ACCEPTANCE – AND AFTERWARDS?
Adry Poelmans |
| Chapter 9 | THE UNFAIR CONTRACT TERMS ACT 1977 AND CARRIERS’ UK SUB-CONTRACTORS
Simon Baughen |
| Chapter 10 | RECOURSE CLAIMS BETWEEN CARRIERS: ANOTHER OBSTACLE TO INTERMODALITY? Simone Lamont-Black
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| Chapter 11 | THE LAW APPLICABLE TO FREIGHT-FORWARDING CONTRACTS: THE IMPLICATIONS OF HAEGER & SCHMIDT
Cécile Legros |
| Chapter 12 | JURISDICTION OVER FREIGHT-FORWARDING CONTRACTS: Determining the international competent court in the context of uniform transport law and European, international and German law on jurisdiction
Johannes Schilling |
| Chapter 13 | CHOICE OF COURT AGREEMENTS VIS-À-VIS THIRD PARTIES
Veronica Ruiz About-Nigm |
| Chapter 14 | NEW ROAD CARRIER’S LIABILITY REGIME IN CROATIA AND LESSONS FROM THE OLD NORMATIVE ANOMALIES FOR THE NEIGHBOURING COUNTRIES
Nikoleta Radionov |
| Chapter 15 | ADSp 2017– THE GERMAN FREIGHT FORWARDER’S STANDARD TERMS AND CONDITIONS – JOINTLY RECOMMENDED CONTRACT TERMS ONCE MORE
Rechtsanwälte Detlef Neufang and Hubert Valder Translated and abbreviated by Simone Lamont-Black |
| Chapter 16 | THE FREIGHT FORWARDER’S LEGAL POSITION IN THE NORDIC COUNTRIES IN LIGHT OF THE STANDARD TERMS NSAB 2015
Henrik Thal Jantzen, Tine Fomsgaard |
| Chapter 17 | THE IRISH FREIGHT FORWARDERS’ TERMS AND THEIR INCORPORATION INTO CONTRACTS UNDER IRISH LAW
Helen Noble |
Chapter Summaries:
An short summary of the chapters 1-14 can be found in the book review published in Zbornik PFZ in 2018. Chapters 15 – 17 continue to discuss salient features of the German, Nordic and Irish Freight forwarding conditions.