Coastal traffic

Maritime

The coastal traffic indicates a sea kind of Transport which consists in moving port in port while remaining near the coasts. This term initially indicates an activity of commercial Transport in which the ships went from Cape in course (To coast) while thus avoiding moving away from the coast. One can differentiate the national coastal traffic (between ports of the same country) and the international coastal traffic (between ports of various countries). The other typical kinds of navigation are the long course (on all the seas of the world), the coastal navigation (navigation in roads and zones sheltered), the piloting . One says of a ship that it is armed with the long course , to the international coastal traffic , etc

By extension, the coastal traffic indicates also today the activity of most widespread pleasure sailing, and then relates to generally a band of coastal navigation from approximately 20 marine miles. The distance from a shelter being then main reason of this choice of navigation.

Air

In the Air law, the coastal traffic indicates the carriage of passengers, mail and goods between two points inside the territory of a State, carried out by a other State or an air haulage company of another State. The Convention of Chicago of 1944 grants to the States signatories the right to refuse the coastal traffic (Article 7).

Surface transport

In the right of the Road transport of goods, the coastal traffic, regulated, consists in leaving a country with a vehicle and has to give the responsability then to discharge, on several occasions, in a frontier country, with obligatory return to the country of origin. The regulation relating to it is protectionist: it has the aim of avoiding unbalanced competition, in great number, between the road carriers of goods, which would be supported by cost prices (labor, fuels, vehicles) disproportionate with those supported by their foreign fellow-members.

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