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News 1-08-2 englisch:News 2/05.2 30.04.2008 17:44 Uhr Seite 11<br />
I M P E R I A L R E E D E R E I<br />
Organisation, Insurance and Liability<br />
for Transports by Inland Waterway at<br />
the Centre of the CMNI Meeting<br />
The focus was on the “Contract de Transport Merchandise en Navigation Interiéur“ (CMNI) plus questions of<br />
liability and insurance in inland waterway shipping at an event arranged by Imperial Reederei GmbH on<br />
27th October 2007.<br />
The CMNI, in English the “Budapest<br />
Convention on the Contract for<br />
the Carriage of Goods by Inland<br />
Waterway Shipping”, has to date been<br />
ratified by Bulgaria, Croatia, Luxem -<br />
bourg, the Netherlands, Romania, the<br />
Russian Federation, Switzerland, the<br />
Czech Republic, France and Slovakia. It<br />
is also in effect on German waterways<br />
since 1st November 2007 and it changes<br />
the daily work of shipping and logistics<br />
companies. At the end of October 2007,<br />
more than 70 employees of Imperial<br />
Reederei GmbH and its subsidiaries<br />
found out about how the CMNI affects<br />
their work.<br />
The convention applies to all commer -<br />
cial, cross-border transports of goods<br />
when the loading harbour or place of<br />
takeover and the unloading harbour or<br />
point of delivery are situated in two<br />
different countries. The member states<br />
can nevertheless exclude individual<br />
waterways from the scope of the CMNI.<br />
The contract furthermore only applies<br />
to freight, yet not to towing and pushing<br />
contracts.<br />
The agenda for the event also included<br />
questions of liability and insurance in<br />
the organisation of transports by inland<br />
waterways. Among other things, Udo<br />
Griewatz and Stefan Rogge from Regent<br />
Insurance Brokers (Europe) GmbH in -<br />
formed the participants about the dif -<br />
ferent types of insurance and the costs<br />
to be expected in a case of damage.<br />
They additionally demonstrated the<br />
way Regent works using a case study<br />
Over 70 employees of the Imperial Reederei Group found out about the CMNI.<br />
Regent Europe explains the types of<br />
insurance.<br />
taken from practice, the sinking of the<br />
MS Allegro on 22nd March 2007. The<br />
company has functioned as “companybound”<br />
insurance broker for Imperial<br />
Logistics International GmbH since the<br />
end of 2001 and also for the Imperial<br />
Reederei Group since 2004.<br />
Imperial News 1/2008<br />
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