Prime considerazioni sulla riforma della disciplina codicistica in materia di contratto di spedizione e di trasporto multimodale

The purpose of this paper consists in making some preliminary comments on the actual extent of the innovations introduced by the law 29 December 2021 no. 233 recently enforced by the Italian Parliament. This law is aimed to reforming various provisions of the Italian Civil Code in the matters respectively of freight forwarding contract (articles 1737, 1739 and 1741), multimodal transport contract and limitation of carrier’s liability in respect of loss of or damage to cargo (article 1696), exercise of the lien by the carrier or by the freight forwarder (article 2761).