BAKU, Azerbaijan, January 15. A new law on
freight forwarding has been adopted, Trend reports.
This is reflected in the Law on Freight Forwarding, approved by
President Ilham Aliyev.
This law defines the legal, organizational, and economic
foundations of freight forwarding activities in Azerbaijan,
regulates the activities of state bodies (institutions), as well as
legal entities, branches, and representative offices of foreign
legal entities and individual entrepreneurs in this field, and the
relationships that arise between them.
The law establishes such basic concepts as carrier, freight
forwarder, remuneration paid to the freight forwarder, customer,
freight forwarding activities, participants in freight forwarding
activities, freight forwarding services, cargo, and cargo and
transport document.
The document reflects the legal basis for the implementation of
freight forwarding activities, the basic principles of the
implementation of freight forwarding activities, and transport and
freight forwarding services.
The main objectives and responsibilities of the state in the
field of freight forwarding activities, as well as state support
for freight forwarding activities, were also defined.
The head of state signed a decree on the application of the relevant law.
