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Syllabus of the Subject

Convention on the Contract for the International Carriage of Goods by Road (CMR)

  1. Introduction to the Convention on the Contract for the International Carriage of Goods by Road (CMR) - United Nations
  2. Road transport document: CMR Waybill (Consignment Note)
    1. How to fill out the CMR Waybill
  3. e-CMR - Additional Protocol to the Convention on the Contract for the International Carriage of Goods by Road (CMR), concerning the Electronic Consignment Note (Geneva 2008) of the International Road Transport Union (IRU)

E-learning Course Master, International Business

The Subject “Convention on the Contract for the International Carriage of Goods by Road (CMR)” belongs to the following Online Programs taught by EENI Global Business School:

Courses: Road transport, Multimodal transport, Transport in Africa.

Road Transport

Diplomas: Foreign Trade, International Transport.

Diploma in International Transport

Masters: International Transport, Transport in Africa, International Business, Foreign Trade.

Masters in International Business and Foreign Trade (MIB)

Doctorate: Global Logistics, World Trade.

Doctorate in International Business (DIB) Online

Languages: Masters, Doctorate, International Business, English Study Master Doctorate in International Business in Spanish Convenio CMR Study Doctorate in International Business in French Convention CMR Masters Foreign Trade in Portuguese Convenção CMR.

Area of Knowledge: Foreign Trade - Incoterms.

Trade Facilitation - Trade Facilitation Agreement - Kyoto Convention - Convention Harmonization of Frontier Controls of Goods.

Trade Facilitation Programs. TFA Agreement


Sample - CMR Convention, International road transport
Convention on the Contract for the International Carriage of Goods by Road (CMR) of United Nations

The Convention on the Contract for the International Carriage of Goods by Road (CMR) of the United Nations (NU) has been in force since 1962 and is applied to the international transportation of goods between two or more countries. The CMR Convention can also be applied even in the multimodal operations (sea, air or rail).

  1. CMR: Convention relative au contrat de transport international de Marchandise par Route (in French)
  2. Drafting of the agreement: International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT)
  3. Approval: United Nations UNECE
  4. 1978: Protocol for the Convention on the Contract for the International Carriage of Goods by Road (CMR): defines the responsibility of the logistics agent based on the special drawing rights (SDRs)
  5. Countries that have signed the CMR Convention: 55 (mainly from Europe)
  6. 2008: Additional Protocol to the Convention on the International Carriage of Goods by Road (CMR), concerning the Electronic Consignment Note - eCMR (in force since 2011)

The document used is the CMR consignment note (CMR Waybill) regulated by the International Road Transport Organization (IRU), which demonstrates the existence of a transport contract and that the goods has been received by the carrier.

In case of loss, breakdown or delay, the liability of the carrier is limited.

The Road Transport Agreement is formalized through the CMR consignment note.

Member countries of the Convention on the Contract for the International Carriage of Goods by Road (CMR): Albania, Austria, Belgium, Belarus, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Moldova, Norway, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, UK, U.S..

The Additional Protocol to the Convention concerning the contract for international carriage of goods by road (CMR), concerning the electronic consignment note, has been in force since 2011. The following countries have ratified the e-CMR: Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Iran, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Moldova, the Netherlands, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland and Turkey.

In 2017, the first e-CMR was formally used to cross a border post between France and Spain.

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  2. Safe Load Securing for Road Transport
  3. Containers and Transportation
  4. Istanbul Convention
  5. Customs Convention on Containers

Trans-European Transport Corridors

Trans-European Corridors.

  1. Atlantic Corridor
  2. Baltic-Adriatic Corridor
  3. North Sea-Baltic Corridor
  4. North Sea-Mediterranean Corridor
  5. Mediterranean Transport Corridor
  6. Eastern Europe-Eastern Mediterranean Transport Corridor
  7. Scandinavian-Mediterranean Transport Corridor
  8. Rhine-Alpine Transport Corridor
  9. Rhine-Danube Transport Corridor
  10. Strasbourg-Danube Transport Corridor
  11. Pan-European Corridor II
  12. Pan-European Corridor IX

Eurasian Land Transport Initiative (Silk Road, China-Europe)

New Silk Road.

  1. India-Afghanistan Corridor
  2. Almaty-Bishkek Corridor
  3. Bangladesh-Myanmar Corridor
  4. China-Russia Corridor
  5. China-Pakistan Corridor
  6. China-Central-West Asia Corridor
  7. Europe-Caucasus-Asia Corridor
  8. Nanning-Singapore Corridor
  9. Corridor of the Ashgabat Agreement
  10. Trans-Siberian Railway (Russia, North Korea)
  11. North-South Corridor (India-Russia)
  12. Afghanistan-Turkey Corridor
  13. Trans-Caspian Corridor
  14. East-West Corridor (Myanmar-Vietnam)
  15. Kyrgyzstan-Iran Corridor
  16. Islamabad-Istanbul Corridor
  17. Nanning-Singapore Corridor

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