The Dual Role of the Freight Forwarder: Vastfame Camera Ltd v Birkart Globistics Ltd, 2005 High Court of Hong Kong 117, Stone J, 5 October 2005; 2005 AMC 2864 (High Court of Hong Kong, 2005)

摘要

The increased activity of freight forwarders and the expanded diversity of their work are striking facts of modern carriage of goods. This increase is a result of the container revolution, the emergence of multimodal systems of inland carriers, terminal owners and sea carriers, the long term over-availability of tonnage in the world shipping market coincidental with the rapid and unprecedented development of the global logistics industry. Freight forwarders have fitted into this new global logistics order and provide a valuable service both to the carriers and to their shippers, hence their new importance.