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Transport Documents in Carriage of Goods by Sea


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Index

Index

  • agency
  • agent
    • antedating of a bill 38–39
    • bill of lading 106–109
    • bill signature 42, 105–106
    • charterer, of 105–106
    • dock receipt 30
    • electronic transport documents 223
    • identity of carrier 170–171
    • identity under time charter 93
    • liability 150–151
    • multimodal transport documents 208–209
    • obligations 27
    • ship, of 104–5
    • time charter 95–104
    • UCP, and 188
  • apparent order and condition of goods 47–48
  • approximate quantity 180–181
  • arbitration
    • arbitration clauses 36n34
    • identification of charterparties 88–90
    • incorporation 81–87
    • Thai Commercial Arbitration 183
  • as presented
    • employment and indemnity clause 92–93
  • bailment 142
    • strict liability 4, 8
  • banks
  • bills of lading
    • carrier obligation to issue 27
    • charterparties, relation between 74–78
    • contents 36–42
    • contract of carriage 71–72, 73
    • controversy 63–64
    • copies 36
    • delivery to master 155–156
    • demand of shipper, issued on 27–28
    • diminishing importance of 242–243
    • evidence, as 43, 72–73
    • evidentiary effect in comparative law 44–45
    • evidentiary effect under international conventions see also international convention
    • liner 73–74
    • negotiable document, as 113–117
    • number of originals 35–36
    • onboard bill, issuance of 33–34
    • process of issuance 29–31
    • received for shipment 31–33
    • signature under time charter 92–93, 104–106
    • switch 34–5
    • time of issuance 28–29
    • transfer 117–120
  • blockchain B/L 232–233
  • BOLERO project 226–229
  • booking note 29
  • bulk cargo
  • burden of proof
    • comparison of legislation 21
    • Hague Rules 14
    • international conventions 19
    • onus probandi 50
    • Rotterdam Rules 18
  • carriage by sea
    • definition 22
    • document of title see also document of title
    • evidence of contract 26
    • receipt 26
    • terminology 25
  • carrier 39–40
  • carrier clause
  • carrier’s liability 143–145
    • Asian jurisdictions 144–145
  • charterer
    • as carrier 102
    • shipowner, relation with 75–76
  • charterparties
  • CISG
    • negotiable documents 166
    • stoppage in transit 165–166
    • transport documents under 163–165
    • unpaid seller remedies 133

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    civil law 20, 21, 44, 113, 130
  • claused bill 175
  • clean bill 58
  • CMI uniform rules 224–226, 190
  • common law 20–21, 44, 112, 128
  • condition of goods, containers
  • conflict of interest 163
  • consignee
  • contract of carriage
    • administration 107–109
    • bill of lading, and 23, 71–72, 73
    • definition 1, 71
    • evidence of 72–73
    • international trade 177
    • liner bills 73–74
    • Rotterdam Rules 233–234
    • transfer of contractual rights 128–130
    • transport documents 24–25
  • deck cargo 16
  • delivery
  • delivery order
  • delivery without bill 141–142
  • destination bill 156
  • developments in the 19th century 8–12
    • Harter Act 1893 see also Harter Act 1893
    • seaworthiness 9–11
    • strict liability 8–9
  • discharge of goods 135–136
  • discharge of liability 135–136
  • dock receipt 30
  • document of title 26
  • documentary credit see letter of credit
  • electronic transport documents
    • adoption 218
    • blockchain B/L 232–233
    • BOLERO see BOLERO project
    • CMI rules see CMI uniform rules
    • development 223–233
    • documents of title, as 220–221
    • ESS Databridge 229–232
    • exclusive control, and 221–223
    • functional equivalent of bills of lading 219–220
    • international trade, role of 240–241
    • legal regulation 223
    • national legislation 239–240
    • replacement of paper documents 243–244
    • risks 218–219
    • Rotterdam Rules 233–234
    • UNCITRAL Model Law on Electronic Transferable Records 234–238
  • electronic bill of lading 218, 219–220, 239n76
  • electronic commerce 217–218
  • ESS Databridge 229–232
  • Hague–Visby Rules 13–16
    • Article 1(a) 94
    • Article 3(3) 27, 46–48, 49–51
    • Article 3(4) 45
    • Article 3(5) 45, 67
    • Article 3(7) 32
    • Article 3(8) 57, 84, 109
    • Article 4(2) 14, 18–19, 64
    • bill of lading 35, 45–48, 121–122
    • carrier definition 95
    • civil law 20
    • goods quantity 49–50, 176
    • inserting remarks 51
    • international convention comparison 19–20, 21
    • letters of indemnity 66–68
    • liability 135
    • multimodal transport documents 203, 205
    • reasonable means of checking 53
    • received for shipment bill 32–33
    • shipper, relating to 40
    • time charter 102, 105
    • validity of pre– printed clauses 59–61
  • Hamburg Rules 16–17
    • bill of lading 27–28, 35
    • carrier definition 94–95
    • electronic transport documents 223
    • evidentiary effect of bills 45–48
    • goods quantity 50
    • inserting remarks 51

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      international conventions compared 19–20
    • liability 111, 135
    • letter of indemnity 67
    • multimodal transport documents 203
    • received for shipment bill 32
    • time charter 103, 107, 110
    • validity of pre-printed clauses 61
  • Harter Act 1893 11–12
  • history
    • development 1–2
  • identity of carrier
  • incorporation
    • arbitration and jurisdiction clauses 81–8
    • charterparty, of a 78–88
    • clauses 79–81
    • demurrage 80–81
    • exception clauses, of 81
    • freight 80
    • general 79–80
    • relevance 79
  • INCOTERMS 2010 166–169
    • approximate quantity 180
    • bill of lading 172
    • continuous documentary cover 167
    • contract goods covered 167–168
    • electronic transport documents 240
    • enabling receipt of goods 168
    • enabling sale of goods in transit 168–169
    • full bills of lading 169
    • multimodal transport documents 203, 210–211, 212, 214
    • onboard 171
    • sea waybills 194
    • shipment period, within 168
  • international conventions
    • comparisons 19–20
    • effects of bills of lading 45–48
  • international sale 166
  • international trade
    • approximate quantity 180–181
    • bills of lading 161–163
    • CISG 163–166
    • conflict of interest 163
    • electronic transport documents, role of 240–241
    • fraud exception rule 185–187
    • INCOTERMS 2010 166–169
    • letters of credit 169–170
    • multimodal transport documents, role of 214–215
    • negotiable documents 166
    • protection under existing rules 187–188
    • risk of fraud 182–184
    • said to contain clauses 181–182
    • sea waybills, role of 193–194
    • UCP600 see UCP600
  • leading marks 29, 45–46, 51
  • legal regulation development
    • attempts at unification 244–245
    • balancing interests 245
    • interaction with practice 245
    • technological developments 245–246
  • letter of credit 169–170, 175
    • sea waybill 194
  • letter of indemnity
    • delivery of goods 153–155
    • fraudulent letter 66
    • legal regulation 66
    • nullity 68–69
    • use with caution 69
    • validity 66–68
  • letter of protest 69–70
  • lex mercatoria 3–8
    • bill of lading 5–8
    • strict liability 4–5
  • liability
    • multimodal transport documents 204–205
    • wrongful delivery 150–151
  • liner carriage 23–24
    • bills of lading stipulations 37
    • booking note 29
    • checking conditions 53
    • document of title 207
  • master
  • mate’s receipt 30–31
  • Model Law on Electronic Transferable Records 234–239
  • multimodal transport document 201–202
    • document of title, as 207–214
    • increasing use of 243
    • international trade, role in 214–215
    • legal regulation 202–203
    • liability 204–205
    • national legislation 205–207
    • negotiable document 209–211
    • non-negotiable document 210
    • objections under English law 208–211
    • Rotterdam Rules 203–204
  • multimodal transport operator 200–201
  • negotiable
    • bill of lading 113–117
    • multimodal transport document 209–211
    • Rotterdam Rules 166
    • straight bill 123
  • non–negotiable
    • multimodal transport document 210
    • increasing use of documents 243
    • sea waybill 191
    • straight bill 123
  • notations
    • avoidance by clauses in bills of lading 64–65
  • notify party 136
  • number of bills 35
  • order bills
    • negotiable bills, in relation to 123
    • third party endorsee 121
    • transfer 118
  • original bills 36
    • carrier’s liability 143
    • delivery of goods 145
    • delivery to master 155–156
    • different port delivery 146
    • national legislation 124
    • transfer of possession 124–127
    • without originals 151–153
  • paper documents
    • issues with legal requirements 216–17
  • port of destination 41
    • delivery procedure 136–7
    • delivery to different port 145–7
    • delivery

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      without bill 155–9
    • developments 8
    • effect of transfer of bill 125–7
    • INCOTERMS 2010 167–8
    • multimodal transport documents 207
  • port of loading
    • bill of lading 34, 38
    • Hamburg Rules 16
    • UCP600 document requirements 172
  • possession
  • pre-printed clauses
    • validity of 59–61
  • presentation 47, 50, 122, 139, 169, 213, 243
  • property
  • quantity
    • apportionment of bulk cargo 159–60
    • approximate 180–1
    • delivery order 196–8
    • Hague–Visby Rules 45–7, 59–61
    • Hamburg Rules 46–7
    • legal effect of reservation 50–1
    • mate’s receipt 30–1
    • notations regarding condition 56–8
    • receipt 46–7
    • reservations 49–51
    • Rotterdam Rules 17–18
    • suspicion of inaccuracy 51–2, 53
    • third–party holder 44
    • UCP600 175–80, 184
  • receipt
    • bill of lading 43–44
    • condition 47–48
    • controversy 63–64
    • definition 26
    • dock receipt 30
    • evidence, as 43
    • evidentiary effect 44–48
    • goods carried 61–63
    • identification marks 46, 49–51
    • letter of indemnity 65–70
    • liability 50
    • mate’s receipt 30–31
    • notations 53–59, 64–65
    • pre-printed clauses 59–61
    • quantity 46–47
    • reservations 48–53
    • sea waybill 190 see also received for shipment bill
  • received for shipment bill 31–33
    • advantages and disadvantages 33
    • multimodal transport documents 209
    • shipped on board, comparison 32–34, 171
  • reservations
    • carrier’s right to insert 49–53
    • conditions of goods 58–59
    • identification, as to 49–50
    • impossibility of checking 52–53
    • legal effect 50–51
    • rationale 177–8
    • suspicion, reasonable grounds 51–52
  • right of control 131–132
  • Roman law 2–3
  • Rotterdam Rules 17–19
    • attempt to resolve 156–159
    • carrier 95
    • delivery of goods 140–141
    • electronic transport documents 233–234
    • international conventions compared 19–20
    • liability 135
    • multimodal transport documents 203–204, 209–210
    • negotiable documents 166
    • non-negotiable documents 190
    • number of bills 35
    • receipt 46–47
    • received for shipment bills 32
    • reservations 51
    • resolutions 156–159
    • right of control 131
  • said to contain 59, 181–182
  • sea waybills
    • characteristics 190–191
    • delivery of goods 191
    • international trade, role in 193–194
    • legal regulation 189–190
    • right to control 191–193
    • straight bill 121–123
  • seaworthiness
    • carrier’s liability system 9–11
  • ship’s delivery order 196–197
  • shipowner
    • charterer, relation with 75–76
  • shipper
    • bill of lading 27–28, 39–40
    • carrier, relation with 76–77
    • delivery order 196
  • shipper’s delivery order 196
  • shipping note 29
  • shipping order 29–30
  • signature
    • bill of lading 42
  • stoppage in transit 131–133
  • straight bill
  • subcharters 91
  • surrender of bill 140, 156
  • switch bill 34–35
  • vessel
    • bills of lading 37–38
  • weight
    • reservations 49–50

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