Transport and Logistics


ICC’s Commission on Transport and Logistics provides one of the only fora that represents all interests in the business of transport and logistics. Its overriding goal is efficient, competitive and user-friendly transport services for goods and business travellers worldwide.

Two sector-based Committees, for maritime and air transport, provide focussed fora for discussion of specific maritime and air issues, under the umbrella of the single Commission.

Projects for 2006

• Advance world business views on how to improve the security of transport supply chains while minimising cost increases and avoiding significant new trade barriers.
• Develop world business position on initiatives to modernise maritime and multimodal transport liability regimes, including the UNCITRAL draft instrument on the carriage of goods by sea.
• Advocate the removal of obstacles to open transport markets.
• Contribute to the revision of UCP500.

Commission Officers

• Chair: Johannes M. Fritzen, President, Volkswagen Transport GmbH & Co. OHG, Germany
• Vice-Chair: Lua Cheng Eng, Senior Honorary Advisor, Neptune Orient Lines Ltd,
  Singapore; Anton van der Lande, Vice-President Public Affairs International, United Parcel
  Service, US
• Secretary: Viviane Schiavi, ICC

Task Forces

• UNCITRAL Draft Transport Convention
  Chair: to be appointed

Committee on Maritime Transport

The Committee on Maritime Transport brings together shippers, carriers, intermediaries and ports and elaborates global business positions on issues such as liberalisation, competition and the environment. The Committee maintains that shipping can best serve world trade if allowed to operate on a commercial basis, in a competitive market free from protectionism and other forms of market-distorting government support. Objectives of the Committee include:

• Convey world business positions on initiatives to modernize maritime and multimodal
  transport regimes
• Promote market access in trade in maritime services and explore possibilities for
  further liberalization, including through the WTO
• Address competition issues affecting maritime transport
• Monitor legislative and regulatory developments affecting shipping worldwide
• Run the ICC Bill of Lading Review Committee which issues decisions on the conformity
  of transport documents with the UNCTAD/ICC Rules for Multimodal Transport
  Documents

Committee officers

• Chair: Lua Cheng Eng, Senior Honorary Advisor, Neptune Orient Lines Ltd (Singapore)
• Vice-Chair: Peter J. Gatti, Jr, Executive Vice President, The National Industrial
  Transportation League (US)

Committee on Air Transport

The Committee on Air Transport brings together shippers, intermediaries, express carriers, airlines and airport representatives and elaborates global business positions on issues such as liberalisation, facilitation, the environment and customs facilitation in air transport. Objectives of the Committee include:

• Promote ICC positions for the further liberalization of air transport
• Urge global consensus on new aircraft noise standards within ICAO
• Promote global coordination on issues such as competition, security and the
  environment
• Press for ratification of a draft global convention for aircraft financing and leasing
• Promote the use of information technology for airway bills

Committee officers

• Chair: Anton van der Lande, Vice-President, Public Affairs International, United Parcel
  Service (US)
• Vice-Chair: Arvind N. Parikh, Chairman, Lee & Muirhead Limited (India)

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