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Chapter 9 Delivery of Goods
Modes of Transport
Transport Documents
Terms of Transport
Chapter 9 Delivery of Goods
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Introduction
In an international business, it is one of the basic tasks for the exporter to deliver the goods to the buyer or carrier or agreed conveyance after the contract has been singed according to the stipulated time, place, and transport methods in the contract.
The delivery of the goods means that the seller delivers the contract goods at the agreed time, place and in the agreed manners to the buyer. In international sales of goods, the delivery also means to transfer the necessary documents at the stipulated time to the buyer.
As to the methods of delivery in international practice, there are many methods to deliver the goods purchased, such as ocean transport, railway transport, air transport, river and lakes transport, postal transport, road transport, pipelines transport, land bridge transport and international multimode transport and so on.
Section One Methods of the Delivery
(一)Modes of Transport
Sea
Land
Air
Charter
Liner
Railway, train
Roadway, truck
Airline
Ups, Fedex, DHL,EMS
Postal Parcel Transport
Combined Transport
OCP Transport: Overland common point
Land Bridge Transport
Ocean freight is the most widely used form of transportation in international trade as well as the most efficient form in terms of energy.
1 Ocean Transport
Shipping by Chartering
It is also called tramp.
It falls into 3 kinds: voyage charter, time charter and demise charter.
(1). Voyage charter 定程租船
(2). Time Charter 定期租船
(3). Demise charter 光船租船
(4). Charter party 租船合同
(1). Voyage charter
The voyage charter is one for the carriage of goods from one specified port to another, or for a round trip.
(2). Time Charter
The charterer charters the ship for a period of time during which the ship is deployed and managed by the charterer. What concerns the