Los contratos internacionales de transporte internacional marítimo de mercancías en el ordenamiento jurídico brasileño

Abstract

This study analyses the International Contract for the International Carriage of Goods by Sea (Maritime Transportation of Goods) in Brazilian Law and emphasizes the problem of competence in jurisdiction and the applicable current law. Since International Law disposes that that obligations will be qualified and acquainted and forced to the National Law of the place where the contract was celebrated; it exists, in Brazil, restrictions to the autonomous will of parties for the constitution of international contracts. Acknowledging these facts, this article analyses this kind of contracts and the responsibilities the parties must assume when there’s damages, all of this having into account Brazilians legislation.