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Admiralty law. A bill of lading ( / ˈleɪdɪŋ /) (sometimes abbreviated as B/L or BOL) is a document issued by a carrier (or their agent) to acknowledge receipt of cargo for shipment. [1] Although the term is historically related only to carriage by sea, a bill of lading may today be used for any type of carriage of goods. [2]
Parent. COSCO Shipping Holdings. Website. lines .coscoshipping .com. COSCO SHIPPING Lines Co., Ltd. ( Chinese: 中远海运集运) is a Chinese international container transportation and shipping company. It is a subsidiary of COSCO Shipping Holdings, and its parent company is China's state-owned COSCO Shipping .
The Standard Carrier Alpha Code ( SCAC) is a privately controlled US code used to identify vessel operating common carriers (VOCC). It is typically two to four letters long. The National Motor Freight Traffic Association developed the SCAC code in the 1960s to help road transport companies computerize data and records. [1]
COSCO Shipping Shengshi, a vehicles carrier ship, Sète, 2018. China COSCO Shipping Corporation Limited, abbreviated as COSCO Shipping, is a Chinese state-owned multinational conglomerate headquartered in Shanghai. The group is focused on marine transportation services. [2] COSCO Shipping was established in January 2016 by the merger of COSCO ...
The Uniform Bills of Lading Act was adopted in 1909 and passed by the U.S. Uniform Law Commission. The act addressed the judicial and legislative treatment of issues such as the extent of the carrier's liability to the consignee of the goods or to the buyer of the bill of lading based upon the carrier's issuance of the bill. [1]
COSCO Shipping was formed in January 2016 by a merger of COSCO and China Shipping Group as one conglomerate. It is a state-owned enterprise.: 68 COSCO was founded in 1961 as a Chinese Government owned shipping and logistics services supplier company. COSCO headquarters is in Ocean Plaza in the Xicheng District in Beijing.
COSCO Shipping Development Co., Ltd., stylized as COSCO SHIPPING Development is a financial services company based in Shanghai, China . It was known as China Shipping Container Lines (CSCL) and was among the world's largest container liner companies. It exited the container shipping business and was renamed to COSCO SHIPPING Development because ...
Freight transport, also referred as freight forwarding, is the physical process of transporting commodities and merchandise goods and cargo. [1] The term shipping originally referred to transport by sea but in American English, it has been extended to refer to transport by land or air (International English: "carriage") as well.