Features of the Conclusion of the Contract of Railway Transportation of Goods in Electronic Form

The article touches upon the problem of introducing information technologies into the contractual component of railway transportation of goods. The author has established that the freight contract is made in a simple written form and may have an electronic expression. The relevance of the research topic is determined by the fact that currently there are no legislatively established forms for such transactions using smart contracts. The paper considers both the positive and negative effects of the use of electronic data exchange systems on a digital platform using blockchain technologies in the conclusion of electronic contracts in railway transport. The subject of the research is the norms of the civil legislation of the Russian Federation, materials of legal literature in the field of cargo transportation and digital legal relations between the relevant subjects. The methodological basis of the study was the historical method (development of an automated logistics system in railway transport); methods of analysis, synthesis and comparison (when considering different points of view regarding the form of concluding a contract for the carriage of goods); formal legal method (when formulating basic concepts: smart contract, electronic contract, etc.).

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