Extended scope of the Rotterdam rules: maritime plus and conflict of the extension with the extensions of other transport law conventions

Abstract

United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Carriage of Goods Wholly or Partly by Sea extends the period of responsibility beyond the traditional “tackle-to-tackle” and even relatively modern “port-to-port” period. Increasing containerized transport necessitates such extension; however there are other international conventions governing other modes of transport that also extends their scope beyond their boundaries. As a result of such extensions of the international transport conventions, scope of conventions may overlap. In order to overcome such overlaps United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Carriage of Goods Wholly or Partly By sea devised “conflict preventing” and “conflict resolving” provisions in their articles 26 and 82 respectively.