IMPLEMENTATION OF UKRAINE'S WORLD EXPERIENCE INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT FOR CARRIAGE TRANSPORTATION
Authors: KARTYSHEV D.V. 
Published: August 2018

Topicality. The functioning of international merchant shipping and the practice of international trade in goods are interrelated at different levels - from historical to the level of a separate treaty. Here, contracts for the purchase and sale of goods, transportation, insurance, financing, transport and warehouse documents of title are intertwined and interact. The necessary degree of awareness in these issues is an indispensable condition for both successful business activity and for solving the problems of unification of maritime and commercial law. Also the urgency of the organizing problems of electronic trade by shipping services of shipping lines and their agents through the internal brands, Intranet and the Internet and ways of their overcoming are considered.

Aim and tasks. International cargo transportation is a really confusing business through its customers, partners and employees, which are scattered around the world. Today's information technology has become a focal point for shipowners in order to gain a competitive edge over their rivals by choosing and setting the right partners in their rapidly expanding and timely transmission of information and interactive communication between their partners in the value chain (see Porter's Value Chain). network of value creation. As the international marketing concept develops, companies recognize that the real value creation requires intensive interaction between the internal (employees in a number of departments) and external players and clients as a result of partnership, a flexible value chain. The speediness of the delivery of goods depends on the extent to which all participants in the logistics processes (commercial organizations and state regulatory bodies) were able to make the transition from paper technologies to electronic technologies. The use of paper documents in parallel with the electronic several times increases the time of registration at all stages of the movement of goods.

Research results.The central theme in trade facilitation is the reduction of bureaucratic restrictions for the movement of goods across borders. Why ask commercial operators to submit about thirty documents to forty different agencies with often repeated information? To reduce these formalities, collect information necessary for controlling bodies as quickly and easily as possible - this is the essence of trade facilitation. Simplification and reduction of the required procedures, data and documents, their harmonization with international standards, computerization of documents and foreign trade processes will significantly accelerate the movement of goods and information about them across borders. Approximately 40 years ago, US experts calculated that eliminating unnecessary bureaucratic procedures and paper flows would reduce the cost of trade operations by 7% in the US, and this was always a very large amount that the society simply lost because of insufficiently streamlined processes. The Single Window system has already been implemented in many countries, such as Japan, Singapore, Sweden, the United States and Senegal.

Conclusion. The proposal was accompanied by information that in existing national laws and international conventions there are significant gaps regarding the functioning of bills of lading and sea waybills, the connection of these transport documents with the rights and obligations of the seller and buyer of goods, the legal status of entities providing financing to one of the parties to the contract of carriage Cargo. In some states there is a regulatory framework for these issues, but it is not uniform. And in many states there is no regulatory framework in this sphere at all. This circumstance is an obstacle to the free movement of goods and increases the value of transactions. The widespread use of electronic means of communication in the transport of goods further exacerbates the consequences of the fragmentation and non-unification of various laws and leads to the need to develop uniform provisions on specific issues related to the use of the applied technologies.