Liability of Successive Carriers

• Author: John D. Holding, Q.C., MRAeS
• Pages: 61-62

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Chapter 6: Liability of Successive Carriers

A. GENERAL

The Montreal and Warsaw Conventions both provide that, in the case

of carriage performed by several successive carriers, each carrier who

accepts passengers, baggage, or cargo is subject to the rules of the

Conventions and deemed to be a party to the contract of carriage inso-

far as it relates to that part of the carriage performed by that carrier.1

B. PASSENGER COMPENSATION

Action for passenger death, injury, or delay can be taken only against

the carrier which performed the carriage during which the death,

injury, or delay occurred.2

C. BAGGAGE AND CARGO

Action for loss, damage, or delay to baggage or cargo may be taken as

follows:

1 Montreal Convention, art. 36, pa ra. 1; Warsaw Convention, art. 30

2 Montreal Convention, art. 36, pa ra. 2; Warsaw Convention, art. 30(2).