Colombia, una piedra más en la torre de babel de la legislación del contrato de transporte marítimo internacional

Abstract

Nowadays, Colombia is in a process of continuous growth and commercial interaction generated by the economic openness and the prodigious political-economic integration effort that has been present in the last years. This openness has given place to an increase of the maritime transport, being this the principal mean used in the international commerce activities, due to its low costs, the possibility of carrying high volumes of goods and its accessibility to the maritime ports located around the world. Nevertheless, the international maritime transport contracts that are celebrated daily in Colombia, are based on an intern regulation that is not consistent with the international regulation, not only because of its antiquity but also because it has become one more obstacle for the possible adaptation and adoption of the different international conventions by the national legislation, which already have enough impediments for its efficient and easy interpretation. This fact makes the understanding of the legislation more difficult through a lingua franca that incentives the generation of the maritime transport and commercial acts in a more rapid and efficient way. Is for this that currently we seek to achieve an uniformity when we talk about the international maritime transport contracts, by the Rotterdam Rules.