CMR Convention, road transport

1. Introduction to the Convention on the Contract for the International Carriage of Goods by Road - United Nations
2. Road transport document: CMR Waybill (Consignment Note)
   1. How to fill out CMR Waybill
3. E-CMR - Additional Protocol to the Convention on the Contract for the International Carriage of Goods by Road, concerning the Electronic Consignment Note (Geneva 2008) of the International Road Transport Union (IRU)

Sample - CMR Convention, International road transport

The Subject “Convention on the Contract for the International Carriage of Goods by Road” is included within the curriculum of the following academic programs at EENI Global Business School:

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

Certificate in International Transport

Masters: International Transport, Transport and Logistics in Africa.

Doctorate: Global Logistics.

Languages: Convenio CMR Convention CMR Convenção CMR.

Area of Knowledge: Foreign Trade - Incoterms.

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

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: defines the responsibility of logistics agent based on the special drawing rights (SDRs)
5. Countries that have signed 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 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 CMR consignment note.

Member countries of the Convention on the Contract for the International Carriage of Goods by Road: 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. Safe Load Securing for Road Transport
3. Containers and Transportation
4. Istanbul Convention
5. Customs Convention on Containers

Trans-European Transport Corridors.

1. Atlantic Logistics Corridor
2. Baltic-Adriatic Logistics Corridor
3. North Sea-Baltic Logistics Corridor
4. North Sea-Mediterranean Logistics Corridor
5. Pan-European Transport Corridor II
6. Pan-European Transport Corridor IX

New Silk Road.

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