Understand UNCITRAL’s efforts to digitise negotiable cargo documents, aiming to enhance security and efficiency in international trade.

As supply chain operations seek to control risk, managers often turn to personal protective equipment (PPE) as a control measure to reduce the risk of personal injury to operational workers.

An English court decision where a subcontractor of the bill of lading carrier was able to exercise positive rights against a shipper who had taken proceedings and secured judgment in a jurisdiction other than what was specified in the jurisdiction clause in the bill of lading.  

In containerised transport it is easy to assume that everything that happens to the cargo between the point when it is packed to the point it is unpacked is within the responsibility of the carrier.