Multimodal carriage with a pinch of sea salt

The current framework of international carriage law is made up of a collection of conventions, all of which deal with the carriage of goods by only one specific mode of transport. A convention which specifically deals with multimodal carriage is still lacking however. The new Draft Convention on carriage of goods wholly or partly by sea by UNCITRAL and CMI intends to fill this gap, at least insofar as it concerns multimodal carriage of goods including a sea stage. The article provides an overview of the present carriage conventions in relation to multimodal carriage and attempts to predict the consequences of the addition of the new Draft Convention to this mutlicolored tapestry.