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Carrier companies and its way of contract. Introduction.

We understand by a carrier contract: the contract by which a businessman has to transport from one point to another a person or an object by the pact locomotion mean. The contract has always a private-juridic origin, even tho some parts of its content has to be found in administrative dispositions. We must say this activity is one of the oldest and most important since the very beginning of economy.It 's one of the oldest trade contracts existent. Its importance it's not only focused in the value of its activities but the whole infrastructure that supports itsuch as: maritim , aereo and terrest instalations. This contract's regulated in the Civil code as well as the Commercial code. The carrier world is getting more complicated as we move further in time. This explains why some companiesare tending to be privatized . For example : IBERIA. Special mention to the train sector. We see it's in process of liberalization. The law of this sector has as a main objective distinguish and put apart the administrative activity from the exploitation activity. From that moment it is expected the gradually incorporation of competence; first in goods transportation and then in passengers transportation

contrato de pasaje 1. Using sea mean of transportation for passengers dates from the very origin of navigation, but its not considered as an autonomous economy activity until the second half of the XIX th century. 2. Nowadays , due to the tourism rise, the better perfection and security of this mean of transportation and the establishment of regular companies, make from the exploitation if this activity something terrifically important. 3. Legally speaking the contract follow the general conditions by navigation companies, the commercial code says and in its international side is under the rules of the convenio de atenas de 13 de dciembre de 1974 4. The convenio de atenas focuses its attention mainly in the responsibility of the carrier for any hypothetic injury suffered in an accident. 5. Its a consensual and bilateral contract. The contract involves : carrier obligations and passenger obligations. Carrier. Its principal obligation is to transport with a successfully result . When the trip's cancelled the way of acting depends on when it has been cancelled. It means, if the trip was cancelled in prior, the passenger has the right to have back the ticket price, a indemnity for any injury may caused . Whenever the cancelation it's debt to a fact hard to fight the passenger has the right to have the money back.

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