ABSTRACT
The HVR are silent on multimodal transportation. The CMNI is strictly unimodal and does not apply to multimodal situations. The CIM 1999, the MC and the CMR, however, do contain rules for multimodal situations. The CIM 1999 regulates contracts for the international carriage of goods by rail. Such contracts will usually be unimodal, that is for the carriage by rail from one station to another, but the convention also governs certain multimodal contracts of carriage. The obligations of the air carrier under the contract of carriage will in practice often run beyond the boundaries of the airport, 'the area of land devoted to carriage by air'. The carrier has for instance agreed to collect the goods at the consignor's production plant, or to carry them by truck from the airport to their final destination, or from one airport to another in the course of the voyage.
