Tag Archives: transport law

RPO for occasional services

A few days ago I published an entry with occasional services. As it turned out yesterday, equally critical of the regulation of traffic occasional comment on the Ombudsman.

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When a claim arises in the relationship between carriers

The specificity of transport services is, that very often their performance is done by subcontractors. For this reason, one in the carriage of the damage is often the cause of several lawsuits between the victim and the main carrier, between the main carrier and the subcontractors, etc.. … Continue reading

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The liability of the consignor to the carrier

The vast majority of litigation for damages for the improper performance of the contract of carriage relates to actions directed against the carrier. There are however situations, when the carrier is suffering injury as a result of its counterparty failures.

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The consignment note and the contract of carriage

In practice, the transport is widespread, the next bill of lading issued with the release of the consignment is a contract of carriage between the shipper and the carrier. It happens, between these documents that there are discrepancies, this raises the question, which of them should be given priority.

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Diet broke traffic right

In yesterday (19.12.2011 r.) Republic of Appendix Good Company published an article by me Fri. “Diet broke traffic right”. Full text available here and below. I warmly invite you to read 🙂 On 16 September 2011 r. Diet, accepting patches … Continue reading

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Polish General Forwarding 2010

In 2010 r. Polish Chamber of Shipping and Logistics has developed a next version (created in the previous 2002 r.) Polish General Forwarding – applicable standard contract with shipping contracts. As this pattern by shippers is becoming more common, worth of … Continue reading

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Liability for loss of quantitative and transport containers

The laws of movement in a very rigorous way they treat the carrier's liability for damage in shipment. In some cases, however, the legislature has provided for the carrier favorable legal presumptions, to help him defend the claims of injured, where there are serious doubts, whether the damage occurred during … Continue reading

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Review of case law. Carrier! Beware of bugs before the injury and after injury

Polish courts do not coddle people interested in transportation law from a large number of published decisions. Therefore welcome any judgment, also derived from the lower court. Recently newspapers and portals have reported such a judgment by the District Court in Bialystok … Continue reading

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To which court the expense of transport?

Transport industry is highly internationalized. On one hand, the transports are carried out regularly between different countries, on the other hand are not uncommon situations, when a single journey involving entities from several countries. This state of affairs makes, that in the case … Continue reading

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Tickets and transport time delay of the carrier

In many cities in Poland, for journeys by public transport tickets are valid temporary. They allow the passage of transport for a specified amount of time. Exceeding the time frame is generally regarded as driving without a valid ticket with all negative consequences. … Continue reading

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