몬트리올 협약상의 항공화물운송인의 책임과 신 IATA 항공화물운송장

Liability of the Air Cargo Carrier in Montreal conbention and New IATA Air Waybill

The Montreal Convention, formally the Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules for International Carriage, is a treaty adopted by a Diplomatic meeting of ICAO member states in 1999. It amended important provisions of the Warsaw Convention's regime concerning compensation for the victims of air disasters. This new convention achieves the required modernization in a number of key areas. On the other hand, a new air waybill Conditions of Contract(IATA Resolution 600b) is effective as of March 17, 2008. Resolution 600b is applicable to all IATA Member airlines participating in multilateral cargo interlining on a wordwide level. Resolution 600b specifies 250 French gold francs to be the conversion equivalent of 17 SDR, which provides a direction on how to convert the non-existing French gold franc into a modern currency. Therefore, a standardized conversion of the French gold francs into local currencies would be achieved. In 2004, IATA launched a project, IATA e-freight, designed to eliminate the need to produce and transport paper documents for air cargo shipments by moving to a more simple, industry-wide, electronic, paperfree environment. The Purpose of this paper is to clarify the Montreal Convention and modern changes concerning air transport, such as IATA Resolution 600b and IATA e-freight, project.