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Bill of Lading
A document issued by a common carrier to a shipper that serves as: 1. A receipt for the goods delivered to the carrier for shipment. 2. A definition of the contract of carriage of the goods from the port of shipment to the
Port of destination listed in the bill of lading. 3. Evidence of title to the relative goods. When in order form, a bill of lading is negotiable.
Bill of Lading, Claused
A bill of lading, which has exemptions to the receipt of merchandise in "apparent good order" noted.

Bill of Lading, Clean

1. A bill of lading which bears no superimposed clause or notation which expressly
declares a defective condition of the goods and/or the packaging (Article 18, Uniform
Customs and Practice for Documentary Credits).

A bill of lading that contains a clause
declaring defective goods is called a Foul Bill of Lading.

2. A bill of lading that is silent as to the place of storage, indicating that the goods have
been stowed under deck. (See Bill of Lading, Unclean)

Bill of Lading, Forwarder's

A bill of lading issued by a forwarder to a shipper as a receipt for merchandise that the forwarder will consolidate with cargo obtained from other exporters and ship to his agent at the port of destination. In most cases, the Forwarder's Bill of Lading has legal standing for banking purposes. Also called House Bill of Lading.

OOCL, TSK and COSCON launch new Middle East Express service

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OOCL, TSK Line and COSCON have agreed to operate a new joint service, the Middle East Express (MEX).
The new service, which is expected to start on May 17th ex-Shanghai, will deploy five vessels with a nominal capacity of 7,500 TEU (loadable capacity of 6,500 TEU).
OOCL and COSCON will provide two vessels each and TSK Line will provide one.
The MEX port rotation is: Shanghai > Ningbo > Hong Kong > Shekou > Singapore > Jebel Ali > Dammam > Singapore > Hong Kong > Shanghai.
The new service will replace the current Middle East Asia Express (MAX) service operated by OOCL and TSK Line, which deploys five 5,500 TEU vessels (loadable capacity of around 5,000 TEU).

CMA CGM launches direct service between North Europe, Greece and Turkey

CMA CGM launches direct service between North Europe, Greece and Turkey



CMA CGM will launch its new French Europe Med Express (FEMEX) service from Hamburg on June 1st.
The new fixed-day weekly service will deploy five 2,100 TEU vessels to provide CMA CGM customers with direct connections between North Europe and the main ports in the Aegean and Marmara Seas.
The FEMEX service will call in Tangiers - a CMA CGM strategic hub in the West Mediterranean offering new import and export opportunities between North America, Latin America, West Africa, Greece and Turkey. The FEMEX port rotation will be: Hamburg > Felixstowe > Antwerp > Le Havre > Tangiers > Malta > Piraeus > Thessaloniki > Istanbul > Gebze > Gemlik > Izmir > Malta > Tangiers > Hamburg. CMA CGM currently operates a fleet of 350 vessels, and serves 400 ports around the world.

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Agility acquires China-based Baisui Logistics

Agility acquires China-based Baisui Logistics

sharon_gill
Tidal Expert Contributor

Sep 29, 2008

Agility has signed an agreement to acquire Baisui United Logistics (Shanghai) Co, a Shanghai-based company that provides a range of domestic logistics services, including intra-city, regional and long-haul transport and warehousing.
With more than fifteen years of experience, Baisui operates from fifteen locations throughout China, including Shanghai, Shenzhen, Tianjin, Wuhan, Nanjing and Chongqing, and manages eight logistics centres with more than 130,000 m2 of warehouse floor space.
Baisui operates its own fleet of trucks, and also works with more than 75 trucking companies on a regular basis.
According to Agility's CEO, Asia-Pacific, Wolfgang Hollermann, the acquisition will strengthen Agility's domestic transportation capabilities in eastern coastal China and inland China along the Yangtze River.This is Agility's second acquisition in China this year. In June, Agility signed a conditional agreement to acquire China-based freight forwarder and NVOCC, Cosa Freight.

NOL submits binding offer for Hapag-Lloyd
Sep 29, 2008
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NOL has confirmed that it submitted a binding bid on September 26th to acquire the Hapag-Lloyd container shipping business.

NOL points out that any agreement would be subject to acceptance of the bid by Hapag-Lloyd's owner, TUI, as well as regulatory approvals and shareholders' approval.
NOL submitted an indicative non-binding bid to acquire Hapag-Lloyd to TUI in July 2008, and was invited to continue onto the next phase of the bidding process in August.
NOL remains bound by strict confidentiality undertakings; consequently the details of NOL's bid have not been disclosed.
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new BAF & CAF for OCT

BAF - Bunker Adjustment Factor. A fuel surcharge expressed as a percentage added or subtracted from the freight amount, reflecting the movement in the market place price for bunkers.
CAF - Currency Adjustment Factor. A fee applied to the shipping costs to compensate for exchange rate fluctuations.
Europe — Far East
Freight surcharges for container shipping between Europe and the Far East are set by Far Eastern Freight Conference (FEFC).
Date
BAF(Bunker Adjustment Factor)
CAF(Currency Adjustment Factor)
FCL cargoes,per TEU
LCL cargoes,per revenue ton
Value
Oct 2008
766.00 USD
38.30 USD
+17.9%
Sep 2008
766.00 USD
38.30 USD
+17.9%

MAERSK

Maersk Line, the world's largest container shipping firm, expects container shipping to grow by 7 to 8 percent globally this year, with trade within Asia outperforming that, in spite of soaring fuel costs and a slowing world economy. "Asia is the factory of the world, so Asia doesn't grow anymore than the U.S. and Europe is willing to buy," Maersk Line's Asia Pacific Chief Executive Jesper Praestensgaard told Reuters in an interview on Wednesday."But intra-Asia trade is growing relatively more than between the regions, so Asia is probably more shielded from a downturn in the U.S. and Europe," he said, adding the firm will introduce a new China-Singapore service from next week to tap growing demand.Maersk Line, part of Danish shipping and oil group A.P. Moller-Maersk, now operates over 500 container vessels and 1.9 million containers. Since June it has ordered 34 new ships for delivery by 2012, amid concerns of an impending oversupply in shipping capacity worldwide."Shipping is cyclical, everyone knows that. So when we make investments in shipping, we invest in ships with life-spans of 25-30 years, and you have to measure success over that life-span," said Praestensgaard.Soaring bunker fuel prices, now at over $750 per tonne up from about $500 in January, now represents over 50 percent of the firm's operating costs, and has had a significant impact on margins, he said.Maersk's biggest container ships, at full capacity, can consume an estimated 46,200 litres of fuel for every 100 kilometres traveled.Maersk Line partially offsets its fuel costs by imposing a bunker adjustment charge on customers, fuel hedging, and the practice of "slow steaming", where shippers operate vessels at slower speeds to cut fuel consumption and make up for it by increasing the number of ships on a route."There is no doubt that the current oil prices is hindering global trade, both in terms of reducing consumption and increasing transportation costs in general," Praestensgaard said.MERGERS GOOD

Exporters need more shipping containers

At ports, a shortage of cargo containers seems about as unlikely as cardboard boxes suddenly becoming obsolete. The weak dollar has made U.S. goods cheaper overseas and has created a new wrinkle for the shipping industry: Containers are increasingly hard to come by. “The import volume has slowed down, so fewer boxes are coming in, and exporters are seeing more demand,” said Kevin Mack, a vice president at Newark, N.J.-based Columbia Containers. “I’ve been in the business for 25 years, and this is the first time I can remember this happening.”While most containers come into ports on the East Coast, the Midwest can’t find enough of them to handle the rising exports of grains, soybeans and corn bound for overseas markets.“It’s all logistics,” said Sherif Gendi, who arranges U.S. grain exports for the trading company Marubeni America in New York City. “The containers,” he said, “aren’t getting to where they’re needed.”That’s because moving empty containers around is an expense no one wants to absorb.

Lines to increase inland fuel surcharges

Container lines in the Transpacific Stabilisation Agreement (TSA) are set to increase inland fuel surcharges (IFS) to better reflect the prices they pay for inland fuel in their intermodal operations, TSA announced. TSA, whose members include CMA-CGM, Orient Overseas Container Line, Hapag-Lloyd and Cosco Container Lines amongst others, first introduced IFS in mid-2005, a result of rising surcharges from railroads and motor carriers. TSA executive administrator Brian Conrad noted that ocean carriers are seeing the base rates of rail and trucking operations increase, and those rates increased yet again through fuel surcharges.He further noted that costs are frequently compounded when carriers provide intermodal services using third-party transportation companies, and that container lines will return to a floating surcharge that is adjusted on a monthly basis to reflect highway diesel price fluctuations. TSA lines are seeing slower year-to-date cargo volumes relative to 2007. Factors responsible include a slowdown in cargo exports from North China, a result of factories closing down around Beijing due to the Olympic Games. Dense fog conditions affecting vessels at Qingdao was also cited. TSA members noted that there has been a shift in cargo to the US East Coast, in part due to uncertainly over West Coast longshore labour negotiations following the expiry of their six-year labour agreement on July 1.