2064. The carrier is bound to proceed in an appropriate manner with the loading, handling, stowing, carrying, keeping in custody and discharging of the property carried.
Except in the coasting trade, a fault is committed by the carrier if, without the consent of the shipper and in the absence of rules or custom so permitting, he stows the property on deck. Consent is presumed where containers are loaded on a ship fit for that kind of carriage.
1991, c. 64, a. 2064; I.N. 2014-05-01.