THE NECESSITY FOR HAVING A TRANSPORTATION AND LOGISTICS CODE IN THAILAND

Abstract

          Thailand needs to draft code of transportation and logistics separately from the current civil and commercial code.  It can be either a book in the separate commercial code or an independent code.  To cope with the continuous change in the world of transport and logistics, the integration of land, rail, inland water and maritime transport is necessary.  Because of the development of a successive combined carriage, the codification of current transport laws is consistent with the present business dynamism.  The scattered laws of transports cannot govern a multimodal transport effectively.  Because the Netherlands, Germany, Canada, Singapore and Australia are specialized at transport laws covering almost every issue in international transport and logistics, the provisions of transport laws in these countries can be used to draft a Thai new code of transport and logistics.

          However, Thailand does not have maritime insurance law, aviation insurance law, inland waterway insurance law, rail carriage insurance law and successive combined carriage insurance law.  Hence, the provisions for the insurance of every mode of transport and multimodal transport must be incorporated into the new code of transport and logistics.