The Electronic Transport Record and the Current Challenges of E-logistics and International Trade

none1noThe shipping sector is every day exploiting new ICTs to improve its services. The commitment is to offer customers advanced e-logistics services that enable the different stakeholders to share and exchange information. Particularly involved in this process is the bill of lading: since at least thirty years, several are the attempts to develop a e-bill of lading (or e-transport record, as in the Rotterdam Rules) providing the same functions of the paper one and widely accepted. Scholars’ contributions on this subject-matter are several: this paper intends to investigate the most recent experiences and issues with a specific focus not only on the contract of carriage, but also on the other contracts involved in the international trade and logistics and on the possible effects of state-of-the-art technologies, such as blockchain.mixedElena OrrùElena Orr