[At Vote] [ga]: Standards For International Freight

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General Assembly Resolution

Standards For International Freight

A resolution to enact uniform standards that protect workers, consumers, and the general public.

Category: Regulation

Area of Effect: Transportation

Proposed by: Ostrovskiy

The World Assembly,

Noting the importance of international freight in enabling the rapid and convenient transportation of goods across borders,

Believing that duplicative and unnecessary national-scale laws can increase costs, deter transportation and harm the freight industry and consumers alike, and

Seeking to cut down on such laws through effective international regulation,

Hereby, subject to relevant past World Assembly legislation still in force:

1. defines, for the purposes of this resolution:

a. "operators" as commercial entities which specialize in the movement of goods,

b. "freight" as the movement of goods by operators from one World Assembly member state to another, and

c. "cargo" as those goods moved in freight,

2. requires that operators:

a. exercize due diligence when transporting cargo, including by ensuring that such cargo does not harm others or their property,

b. provide the most truthful and accurate information about the services they offer and the cargo they are transporting on that occasion (including the weight and dimensions of that cargo) to the shipper and the recipient of that cargo, and

c. carefully handle and transport cargo which is dangerous, fragile, hazardous or perishable, and requires the International Transport Safety Committee to design symbols to indicate such cargo which must be used by operators to the maximal extent allowed by prior and standing WA law,

3. requires member states to authorise civil suits against operators when they lose or damage cargo, and that compensatory damages must be provided to the plaintiff if the operator acted as a proximate cause to the loss or damage, so long as such loss and damage could have been prevented without jeopardizing or actually harming the safety of any sapient being, and

4. encourages the adoption of intermodal and multimodal transport, as well as techniques to reduce empty runs and other causes of delays, by operators.

Co-authors: CSB PM Union, Millenhaal, Tinhampton

This is the discussion thread. To cast your vote, go HERE

[spratlyislands]

I think this is a very good idea for a proposal. Well written and are good regulations for freight. I believe it will do good in improving shipping. I vote for.

[Pantso]

For those of you wondering, intermodal transport is when you use something modular like a shipping container to transport goods and then simply move the container from one mode of transportation to the next; as in trailer to train, train to ship, and back. The alternative is loading cargo into specially made containers that only work with one mode of transportation (like a tractor trailer) so that the freight has to be unloaded from one, loaded into another, and then the empty container returned. This is expensive, time consuming, and wasteful. Multimodal refers to using different conveyances and so is closely related to intermodal.

Pantso recommends For, by the way.