Authors : Hamid Reza Parhammehr and Iman Zeajeldi
Abstract: As we know, international trade now a days occupies a very large portion of the global economy. Economic development in many countries of the world depends on exports and sales of goods in global markets. Traditional international transport operations include 3 phases: Transport of the good to the loading port, its sea transport to the destination port and its transport to the final place. Each of these phases is subject to different legal regulations and to different conventions in international trade. With the advent of trailers; however, new methods have formed in modern global transport of goods through combined operations of transport. In this type of transport, the acceptance or reception place (provision) and delivery place are replaced with loading and unloading ports which proves that the goods are delivered from the acceptance or reception place to the transporter at the place instead of proving that the goods are loaded into a certain ship. In this regard, some regulations should be determined in order to unite these issues. Different organizations like United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) attempt to lay down standard regulations in terms of combined transport and transport of Forwarders (FIATA). These regulations are presented in this research.
Hamid Reza Parhammehr and Iman Zeajeldi, 2016. The Role of FIATA Multimodal Transport Bill of Lading in Business Exchange in International Transport. The Social Sciences, 11: 3150-3153.