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A contract of carriage is a contract between a carrier of cargo or passengers and the consignor, consignee or passenger. [1] [2] Contracts of carriage define the rights, duties and liabilities of parties to the contract, addressing topics such as acts of God and including clauses such as force majeure (removing liability for extraordinary occurrences beyond control of the parties).
In a contract of carriage, is the party sending a shipment to be delivered whether by land, sea or air. [2] Some carriers , such as national postal entities , use the term " sender " or " shipper " but in the event of a legal dispute the proper and technical term "consignor" will generally be used.
These typically contain "conditions of contract of carriage" terms on the back of the form that cover limits to liability and other terms and conditions. [2] A waybill is similar to a courier's receipt, which contains the details of the consignor and the consignee and the point of origin and the destination. [3]
In a contract of carriage, the consignee is the entity who is financially responsible (the buyer) for the receipt of a shipment. [2] If a sender dispatches an item to a receiver via a delivery service, the sender is the consignor, the recipient is the consignee, and the deliverer is the carrier.
The law of carriage of goods by sea is a body of law that governs the rights and duties of shippers, carriers and consignees of marine cargo. [1]Primarily concerned with cargo claims, this body of law combines the international commercial law, the law of the sea and admiralty laws.
A consignment agreement is an agreement between a consignee and consignor for the storage, transfer, sale or resale and use of the commodity. The consignee may take goods from the consignment stock for use or resale subject to payment to the consignor agreeably to the terms bargained in the consignment agreement. The unsold goods will normally ...
A contract carrier may be authorized to provide service over either fixed routes and schedules, i.e., as regular route carrier or on an ad hoc basis as an irregular route carrier. It should be mentioned that the carrier refers only to the person (legal or physical) that enters into a contract of carriage with the shipper. The carrier does not ...
A delivery order (abbreviated D/O [1]) is a document from a consignee, or an owner or his agent of freight carrier which orders the release of the transportation of cargo to another party. [2]