Transportation Law in Jordan

Road transport and logistics in Jordan are regulated by the Land Transport Regulatory Commission within the Ministry of Transport framework. We advise carriers, freight forwarders and cargo owners on CMR and road-haulage claims, freight-forwarder liability, warehousing and cross-border transit disputes.

Jordan is a land-transport hub for the Levant, with goods moving daily between Aqaba, Amman, the Gulf, Iraq, Syria and the Palestinian territories. Road haulage, logistics and freight forwarding are the backbone of that trade, and they produce a steady stream of disputes over damaged cargo, delayed deliveries, freight charges and liability allocation. Abdullah & Partners has acted for carriers, forwarders, warehouse operators and their insurers for more than two decades.

On the transactional side, we draft and negotiate haulage, forwarding, distribution and warehousing agreements designed to allocate risk cleanly. When things go wrong, we move fast to secure evidence, appoint surveyors and pursue or defend claims before the Jordanian courts. Our team has particular experience in cross-border files where goods cross three or four jurisdictions before reaching final destination.

We regularly coordinate with correspondent firms in Iraq, the Gulf and the Levant to manage multi-jurisdictional recoveries, and we advise clients on liability allocation when cargo moves under successive carriers. Our work with cargo insurers and P&I clubs has built a practical understanding of how claims are really valued and settled in this market.

In transport, the case is usually decided at the loading bay, the paperwork parties have at departure is the paperwork parties will fight with in court.

Road haulage and logistics in Jordan operate under the oversight of the Land Transport Regulatory Commission, which licenses carriers and regulates land-transport activity, within the wider transport framework set by the Ministry of Transport. A domestic carriage contract is read against Jordanian transport law and the general carriage-of-goods rules, while cross-border movements bring in the international road-haulage framework and the transit regimes, including TIR, that let goods pass through several countries under a single set of documents. Liability for damaged, short or delayed cargo turns on the contract, the consignment notes, and which carrier held the goods when the loss occurred. Because a single shipment can move under successive carriers across three or four jurisdictions, we map the chain of responsibility early, so that a claim is brought against the right party in the right forum before the time limits run. Source: Land Transport Regulatory Commission.