CMR Convention, International road transport

The Subject “Convention on the Contract for the International Carriage of Goods by Road (CMR)” belongs to the following Online Programs taught by EENI Global Business School:

Courses: Road transport, Multimodal transport, Transport in Africa.

Diplomas: Foreign Trade, International Transport.

Masters: International Transport, Transport in Africa, International Business, Foreign Trade.

Doctorate: Global Logistics, World Trade.

Languages: Convenio CMR Convention CMR Convenção CMR.

Area of Knowledge: Foreign Trade - Incoterms® 2020.

Trade Facilitation - Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) - Revised Kyoto Convention - Convention Harmonization of Frontier Controls of Goods.

CMR Convention, International road transport

The Convention on the Contract for the International Carriage of Goods by Road (CMR) of the United Nations (NU) has been in force since 1962 and is applied to the international transportation of goods between two or more countries. The CMR Convention can also be applied even in the multimodal operations (sea, air or rail).

1. CMR: Convention relative au contrat de transport international de Marchandise par Route (in French);
2. Drafting of the agreement: International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT);
3. Approval: United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE);
4. 1978: Protocol for the Convention on the Contract for the International Carriage of Goods by Road (CMR): defines the responsibility of the logistics agent based on the special drawing rights (SDRs);
5. Countries that have signed the CMR Convention: 55 (mainly from Europe);
6. 2008: Additional Protocol to the Convention on the International Carriage of Goods by Road (CMR), concerning the Electronic Consignment Note - eCMR (in force since 2011).

The document used is the CMR consignment note (CMR Waybill) regulated by the International Road Transport Organization (IRU), which demonstrates the existence of a transport contract and that the goods has been received by the carrier.

In case of loss, breakdown or delay, the liability of the carrier is limited.

The Road Transport Agreement is formalized through the CMR consignment note.

Member countries of the Convention on the Contract for the International Carriage of Goods by Road (CMR): Albania, Austria, Belgium, Belarus, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Moldova, Norway, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, UK, U.S..

The Additional Protocol to the Convention concerning the contract for international carriage of goods by road (CMR), concerning the electronic consignment note, has been in force since 2011. The following countries have ratified the e-CMR: Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Iran, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Moldova, the Netherlands, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland and Turkey.

In 2017, the first e-CMR was formally used to cross a border post between France and Spain.

1. Road-Rail Combined Transport;
2. International Guidelines on Safe Load Securing for Road Transport
3. Containers and International Transportation
4. Istanbul Convention;
5. Customs Convention on Containers.

Trans-European Corridors.

1. Atlantic Corridor;
2. Baltic-Adriatic Corridor;
3. North Sea-Baltic Corridor;
4. North Sea-Mediterranean Corridor;
5. Mediterranean Transport Corridor;
6. Eastern Europe-Eastern Mediterranean Transport Corridor;
7. Scandinavian-Mediterranean Transport Corridor;
8. Rhine-Alpine Transport Corridor;
9. Rhine-Danube Transport Corridor;
10. Strasbourg-Danube Transport Corridor;
11. Pan-European Corridor II;
12. Pan-European Corridor IX.

New Silk Road.

1. India-Afghanistan Corridor;
2. Almaty-Bishkek Corridor;
3. Bangladesh-Myanmar Corridor;
4. China-Russia Corridor;
5. China-Pakistan Corridor;
6. China-Central-West Asia Corridor;
7. Europe-Caucasus-Asia Corridor;
8. Nanning-Singapore Economic Corridor;
9. Corridor of the Ashgabat Agreement;
10. Trans-Siberian Railway (Russia, North Korea);
11. North-South Corridor (India-Russia);
12. Afghanistan-Turkey Corridor;
13. Trans-Caspian Corridor;
14. East-West Corridor (Myanmar-Vietnam);
15. Kyrgyzstan-Iran Corridor;
16. Islamabad-Istanbul Corridor;
17. Nanning-Singapore Economic Corridor.

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