The Draft Law No. 4258 “On Multimodal Transportation” defines the legal and organizational principles of multimodal transportation (transportation of goods by two or more modes of transport: road, rail, sea, or air, on a contractual basis). It defines state support for their development, incentives for the use of more environmentally friendly modes of transport in order to protect the environment, prevent climate change and excessive energy consumption.

The draft law provides for the implementation of Council Directive 92/106/EU of December 7, 1992 establishing common rules for certain types of combined transport of goods between Member States.

The draft law proposes to introduce in Ukraine the concept of multimodal and combined cargo transportation, multimodal terminal, multimodal transportation document, operator and customer of multimodal transportation, definition of multimodal transportation contract, its essential conditions, rights and obligations of its parties, basic principles regarding this type of transportation.

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