However, a majority of the delegations have expressed a preference for including a regulation on the liability of the FOB seller, who very often will be the actual shipper.

The problem is viewed as a practical one and it is noted that the relation between the FOB seller and the carrier is not very clear.

The reasons for this are that the chapter should only regulate the liability between the carrier and the shipper and that the question of the position of the free on board , or FOB seller does not belong in a convention on carriage of goods, but rather in a convention on sale of goods.