Transport Law and Practice Training Course

Participants can review and draft core carriage-contract provisions that allocate operational and legal risk.

• Drafting carriage agreements with scope, service levels, rates and payment terms
• Allocating loading, stowage, securing and unloading responsibilities expressly
• Indemnity clauses tested against uninsured losses and third-party claims
• Limitation, exclusion and time-bar clauses reviewed for enforceability
• Applying Incoterms 2020 without confusing sale obligations and carriage duties
• Managing subcontracting, assignment, novation and carrier substitution provisions
• Audit trails for bookings, instructions, delivery records and amendments

Participants can assess road-carriage claims and defences under the CMR Convention.

• CMR Convention scope, contracting parties and mandatory application triggers
• Consignment note entries, reservations and evidential value under CMR
• Carrier liability for loss, damage and delay under Article 17
• Calculating CMR compensation limits using SDRs, weight and declared value
• Defences based on inherent vice, special risks and claimant fault
• Time limits, notice requirements and jurisdiction choices for CMR claims
• Domestic road carriage rules compared with CMR Convention requirements

Participants can analyse sea-carriage documents, carrier obligations and maritime cargo claims.

• Hague-Visby Rules scope, package limitation and carrier due diligence
• Bills of lading as receipts, evidence of contract and documents title
• Sea waybills, delivery orders and electronic transport record controls
• Seaworthiness, cargo care and excepted perils analysed under Hague-Visby
• General average, salvage and contribution obligations following maritime casualties
• Charterparty terms: voyage, time and bareboat allocation of risk
• Demurrage, detention and laytime disputes traced through port documentation

Participants can compare air and rail liability regimes and apply them to cargo claims.

• Montreal Convention liability regime for passenger, baggage and cargo claims
• Air waybill functions, special drawing rights and cargo reservations
• Delay, destruction and damage claims assessed under Montreal Convention
• COTIF CIM rules governing international rail carriage and compensation
• Rail consignment notes, delivery delays and successive carrier liability
• Comparing air, rail and road liability limits for route selection
• Multimodal gaps where no single mandatory convention governs carriage

Participants can allocate liability across forwarders, warehousekeepers and multimodal operators.

• Multimodal transport operator status and contractual assumptions of liability
• Network versus uniform liability systems for multimodal loss allocation
• Freight forwarder standard terms, agency authority and principal liability
• FIATA Model Rules examined against carrier and customer obligations
• Warehouse receipts, bailment duties and inventory loss exposures
• Consolidation, deconsolidation and transhipment risks documented through custody transfers
• Selecting governing terms for door-to-door logistics arrangements

Participants can build defensible cargo claim files and pursue recovery within applicable deadlines.

• Preserving evidence through photographs, temperature data, seals and survey reports
• Notice of loss, damage and delay issued within contractual deadlines
• Claim files structured around causation, quantum, mitigation and defences
• Surveyor appointments, joint inspections and without-prejudice correspondence controls
• Subrogation rights and recoveries coordinated with cargo insurers
• SDR conversion, package counts and declared value calculations checked
• Settlement agreements drafted with releases, confidentiality and recovery protections

Participants can coordinate cargo insurance, carrier liability and recovery actions after transport incidents.

• Cargo insurance clauses: Institute Cargo Clauses A, B and C
• Coverage triggers, exclusions, deductibles and insured value tested against incidents
• Carrier's liability insurance distinguished from cargo and liability policies
• General average security, bonds and guarantees managed after casualties
• Insurance notification duties aligned with claim preservation and recovery strategy
• Letters of indemnity assessed for commercial purpose and legal risk
• Recovering uninsured losses from responsible carriers and subcontractors

Participants can identify legal controls affecting hazardous, cross-border and regulated transport movements.

• ADR, IMDG Code and IATA DGR responsibilities for dangerous goods
• Classification, packing, marking and documentation failures allocated contractually
• Sanctions screening, export controls and denied-party checks in routing
• Customs transit documents, importer records and border delay liability
• Data protection duties for tracking data, consignees and drivers
• Anti-bribery controls for customs agents, port operators and brokers
• Incident escalation protocols for accidents, spills, seizures and security breaches

Participants can select proportionate dispute routes and implement transport legal risk controls.

• Dispute triage using governing law, forum, limitation and evidence
• Negotiation positions built from liability exposure, insurance and commercial continuity
• Mediation, arbitration and litigation compared for transport claim resolution
• Arbitration clauses drafted for seat, rules, language and appointment
• Enforcement prospects assessed before commencing cross-border recovery proceedings
• Creating a transport legal risk register with accountable controls
• 90-day contract and claims improvement plan for workplace implementation