Goods in Transit

ebook Volume 1 · Goods in Transit (1)

By Saul Sorkin

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Goods in Transit is a 7-volume treatise analyzing how to recover or avoid liability for lost, damaged or delayed goods shipped by air, sea, rail or truck anywhere in the world. It also contains practical coverage of the rights, obligations and remedies for losses, damages and delays.

Goods in Transit covers: description of the transportation industry worldwide, bills of lading, connecting carriage and geographic scope, intermodal transportation, termination of common carrier liability, carrier litigation, insurance contracts, marine insurance, inland marine insurance, liability insurance financial responsibility laws, written notice of claim, liability of brokers and third-party intermediaries, negotiation of settlement, jurisdiction and venue, limitation and damages for delay, limitation of damages and liability, indemnity actions, freight, rates, demurrage, lien of carriers upon cargo, C.O.D. shipments, and actions and proceedings involving charges and overcharges.

Also included is an appendix of forms. The full text of relevant statutes, regulations, and international treaties are reprinted in Goods in Transit: Selected Regulations, Statutes, and Treaties, republished annually. Some of the relevant primary source reprinted in these portable softcover volumes includes:

  • ICC Termination Act of 1995
  • Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 1998
  • Homeland Security Act of 2002
  • Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002
  • Shipping Act of 1984
  • The Harter Act
  • Household Goods Transportation Act of 1980
  • Motor Carrier Act of 1980
  • Staggers Rail Act of 1980
  • Hague Protocol to Warsaw Convention
  • Montreal Protocol No. 4
  • Hamburg Rules
  • Visby Rules
  • Vienna Convention
  • United Nations Convention on International Multimodal Transport of Goods
  • York-Antwerp Rules 1994

    First published in 1976. 7 looseleaf volumes of analytical material; 2 bound softcover volumes of primary source material; updated with revisions.

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