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Types of carrier of goods

Produced in partnership with Quentin Tannock of 4 Pump Court and James Watthey of 4 Pump Court

Practice notes

Types of carrier of goods

Produced in partnership with Quentin Tannock of 4 Pump Court and James Watthey of 4 Pump Court

Practice notes

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This Practice Note provides an introduction to two types of cargo Carrier; common carriers and private carriers, and explains the key aspects of their respective liabilities under their contractual relationships. The Practice Note concerns the carriage of Goods only, and not the carriage of passengers.

Definition of carrier

A ‘carrier’ can be simply defined as a person who carries cargo (or indeed carries passengers, but passenger carriage is outside the scope of this Practice Note) for the benefit of other persons, whether gratuitously or for payment (or ‘reward’).

The types of carrier are:

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common carriers
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private carriers
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other types of carriers with special rights and duties

For the avoidance of doubt, the following are not carriers:

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stevedores
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forwarding agents who merely arrange or procure carriage by others

While they are not carriers for the purposes of this Practice Note, it is worth mentioning that logistics companies will often contract with their clients under terms covering the storage and carriage

Quentin Tannock

4 Pump Court

Quentin Tannock has a commercial practice with a strong focus on advocacy. Quentin acts and advises on a broad spectrum of disputes across a range of industry sectors, for example, including insurance, financial services and professional negligence. While his practice has a focus on high value disputes, Quentin's clients range in size from the Fortune 100 through to SMEs. Quentin's background is in law and business, including commercial arbitration, venture capital investments and the provision of IP related strategy and policy advice to multinational corporations and international organisations. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre in the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge and gave a series of lectures on IP and business to science master’s students at the University of Cambridge.

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James Watthey

Barrister, 4 Pump Court

James is an experienced commercial barrister handling heavyweight international arbitration and litigation. James focuses on charterparty disputes, cargo claims, sale and purchase, shipbuilding disputes, international trade and marine insurance. In addition to LMAA, LCIA, SIAC, ICC and other institutional and ad hoc arbitrations all around the world, he also frequently handles disputes in the Commercial Court and the Admiralty Court, as well as other divisions of the High Court. He has particular experience of international actions involving jurisdictional disputes. James also has experience in mediation and as an Arbitrator and expert in English law in foreign proceedings. His arbitration practice includes both substantive proceedings and challenges under the Arbitration Act 1996, on grounds such as want of jurisdiction, apparent bias, serious irregularity and errors of law. More recently, he has handled a lot more commodities and energy related shipping disputes. He also works on Admiralty matters and is widely regarded as pre-eminent in the superyacht market. Increasingly, he is being sought after as an arbitrator.

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Jurisdiction(s):

United Kingdom

Key definition:

Carrier definition

What does Carrier mean?

Carriers are persons who carry persons or goods either for profit or gratuitously.

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