TRANSPORTATION DOCUMENTS

Transportation documents are usually attached to commercial invoices as a proof of shipment which also enables the buyers to receive the goods. Transportation documents include bills of lading, air waybills, railway bills, road carriage bills and others depending on the mode of transportation used. Since sea and river shipments are considered most economical, they are most often used and bills of lading are the most popular transportation documents.

Bills of lading usually contain the following details:

• name of consignor

• name of consignee

• name of vessel

• shipping date

• weight

• measurement

• marking

• number of cases

• contents of the cases

Sometimes, when the packing is bad or the cases are damaged, the master of the ship makes a certain note of it on the bill. It makes the bill dirty then. If no notes are made on the bill it is clean. Usually the contracts say that only clean bills of lading can be attached to the commercial invoices and thus considered a proof of shipment.

Here is a part of a specimen bill of lading:

Bill of Lading No 156

• Shipper: Morflot

• Consignee: Petrol Co., Liverpool, England

• Ocean vessel: Aleksandr Pushkin

• Port of loading: Riga

• Freight payable at: Riga

• Port of discharge: Liverpool

• Description of goods: Chemicals ST

• Gross weight: 5100 kg

• Number of bags:100 bags

November, 2007

Practice

Answer the following questions about the specimen Bill of Lading

1. What company issued this bill of lading?

2. From what port and to what port were the goods shipped?

3. Who paid for the transportation of the goods?

4. Was it a dirty or clean bill of lading?

5. Did the master of the ship sign the bill of lading?

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