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1. Definitions
UPPOLLO FREIGHT EXPRESS, hereinafter called " the Company "is
not a common carrier and only deals with goods subject to
these conditions. No agent or employee of the Company has
the Company's authority to alter or vary these Conditions.
If any legislation is compulsory applicable to any business
undertaken, these conditions shall as regards such business
be read a s subject to such legislation and nothing in these
Conditions shall be construed as a surrender by the Company
of any of its rights or immunities or as an increase of any
of its responsibilities or liabilities under such legislation
and if any part of these Conditions be repugnant to such
legislation to any extent such part shall as regards such
business be void to that extent but no further.
'Goods' means the cargo accepted from the Shipper and includes
any Container not supplied by or on behalf of the carrier.
Merchant includes the Shipper, Holder, consignee, the receiver
of the goods of this Bill of lading/Air way bill and anyone
acting on behalf of any such persons.
'Holder' means any person for the time in possession of
this Bill of Lading/Air way bill to whom the property in
the Goods has passed on or by reasons of the consignment
of the goods or the endorsement of this Bill of Lading/Air
waybill or otherwise.
2. Company's Tariff
The terms of the Company's applicable tariff are incorporated
herein. Copies of the relevant provisions of the applicable
tariff are obtainable from the Company upon request, In the
case of inconsistency between this Bill of Lading/Air waybill
and the applicable Tariff this Bill of Lading/airway bill shall
prevail.
3. Warranty
The Merchant warrants that in agreeing to the terms hereof
he is or has the authority of the person owning or entitled
to the possession of the Goods and this Bill of Lading/Air
waybill.
4. Sub-contracting
(i) The Company shall be entitled to sub-contract on any
terms the whole or any part of the carriage, loading, unloading,
storing, warehousing, handling and any and all duties whatsoever
undertaken by the Company in relation to the Goods.
(ii) The Merchant undertakes that no claims or allegation
shall be made against any servant, agent of sub-contractor,
including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing,
terminal and depot operators shall have the benefits of all
provisions herein benefiting the Company as if such provisions
were expressly for their benefit, and in entering into this
contract the Company to the extent of those provisions, does
so not only on its own behalf, but also as agent and trustee
for such servants, agents and sub-contractors including without
limiting the generality of the foregoing, terminal and depot
operators.
(iii) The expression 'sub-contractor' in this clause shall
include direct and indirect sub-contractors and their respective
servants and agents.
5. Company's responsibility
(i) The Company shall be liable for loss of or damage to
the Goods occurring between the time when he receives the
Goods for transportation and the time of delivery.
(ii) The Company shall however, be relieved of liability
for any loss or damage if such loss or damage arose or resulted
from:
(a) the wrongful act or neglect of the Merchant.
(b) compliance with the instructions of the person entitled
to give them
(c) the lack of , or insufficiency of or defective condition
of packing in the case of Goods which, by their nature are
liable to wastage or to be damaged when not packed or when
not properly packed.
(d) handling, loading, stowage or unloading of the Goods
by or on behalf of the Merchant.
(e) inherent vice of the Goods.
(f) Customs' confiscation on their own discretion
with/without notice to the Merchant, its agent or custom
broker at origin or destination. (g) insufficiency or inadequacy of marks or numbers on the
Goods coverings or containers.
(h) strikes or lock-outs or stoppage or restraints of labor
from whatever cause whether partial or general.
(i) any cause or event which the Company could not avoid
and the consequence whereof he could not prevent by the exercise
of reasonable diligence.
(iii) Where under sub-clause (ii) the Company is not under
any liability in respect of some of the factors causing the
loss or damage, he shall only be liable to the extent that
those factors for which he is liable under this clause have
contributed to the loss or damage.
(iv) The burden of proving that the loss or damage was due
to one or more of the causes, or events, specified in (a)(b)
and (h) of sub-clause (iii) shall rest upon the Company.
When the Company establishes that in the circumstance of
the case, the loss or damage could be attributed to one or
more of the causes, or events, specified in (c) to (i) of
sub-clause (ii). It shall be presumed that it was so caused.
6. The Amount of Compensation & Time
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(i) When the Company is liable for compensation in respect
of loss or damage to the Goods such compensation shall be
calculated by reference to the invoice value of the Goods
plus freight charges and insurance if paid.
(ii) If there is no invoice value of the Goods , such compensation
shall be calculated by reference to the value of such Goods
at the place and time they are delivered to the Merchant
in accordance with the contract or should have been so delivered
. The value of the goods shall be fixed according to the
commodity exchange price or, if there be no such price, according
to the current market price or if, there be no commodity
exchange price or current market price, by reference to the
normal value of goods of the same kind and quality.
(iii) Compensation shall not however exceed US$ 2.00 (Two)
per kilo of gross weight of the Goods lost or damage.
(iv) Higher compensation may be claimed only when with the
consent of the Company, the value for the Goods declared
by the Shipper which exceeds the limits laid down in this
clause has been stated in this Bill of Lading, in that case
the amount of the declared value shall be substituted for
that limit. Any partial loss or damage shall be adjusted
pro rate on the basis of such declared value.
(iv) Any rights to damages against the company shall be
extinguished unless an action is brought within 6 months
from the date of arrival at destination, or from the date
on which the shipment ought to have arrive, or from the date
on which the transportation stopped.
7. Special provisions
(1) Notwithstanding anything provided for in Clauses 5 and
6 of this Bill of Lading/Air waybill and subject to Clauses
18 and 19 if it can proved where the loss or damage occurred
the Company and the Merchant shall as to the liability of
the company, be entitled to require such liability to be
determined.
(a) by the provisions contained in any international convention
or national law which provisions -
(i) cannot be departed from by private contract to the detriment
of the Merchant and
(ii) would have applied if the Merchant had made a separate
and direct contract with the carrier in respect of the particular
stage of transport where the loss or damage occurred and
received as evidence thereof any particular document which
must be issued if such international convention or national
law shall apply.
Provided that an international convention or national law
may be invoked as aforesaid only if it would have been applicable
if the contract referred to in (ii) above were governed.
(1) where the loss or damage occurred between the time that
the Goods were received by the Company for transportation
and the time that the Goods were loaded at the sea /air port of
loading, by the internal law of the State of the place of
receipt or
(2) where the loss or damage occurred during carriage by
sea by the internal law of the final port of discharge, or
(3) where the loss or damage occurred between the time that
the Goods were discharged at the final port of discharge
and the time that the Goods were delivered to the Merchant
by the internal law of the State of the place of delivery,
or
(b) Subject to (a)-
(i) by the Hague Rules contained in the International Convention
for the Unification of Certain Rules Relating to Bills of
Lading dated 25th August, 1924 if the loss or damage
is proved to have occurred at sea or on inland waterways,
for the purposes of this sub-Clause the limitation of liability
under the Hague Rules shall be deemed to be PDS 100, lawful
money of the United Kingdom per package or unit and references
in the Hague Rules to carriage by sea shall be deemed to
include references to carriage by inland waterways and the
Hague Rules shall be constructed accordingly or applicable
Warsaw Convention
(2) If the whole of the carriage undertaken by the Company
is limited to carriage from a Container Yard (CY) or Container
Freight Station (CFS) in or immediately adjacent to the sea
terminal at the port of loading to a CY or CFS in or immediately
adjacent to the sea terminal at the port of discharge , the
liability of the Company shall be determined by the national
law, which shall be applicable to the carriage by sea under
paragraph (a) above, or failing which shall by the Hague
Rules, referred to in (1) (b)(i) above, irrespective of whether
the loss or damages is proved to have occurred during the
period of carriage at sea or prior of subsequent thereto.
8. General
(i) The Company does not undertake that the goods shall
arrive at the sea /air port of discharge or place of delivery
at any particular time or to meet any particular market or
use and save as provided in Clause 7, the Company shall in
no circumstances to be liable for any direct, indirect or
consequential loss or damage caused by delay.
The Liability of the Company or indirect or consequential
loss or damage caused by delay shall in no case exceed the
freight for the transport covered by the Bill of Lading/Air
waybill
(ii) Save as otherwise provided herein, the Company shall
in no circumstances be liable for direct or indirect or consequential
loss or damage arising from any other cause.
(iii) The terms of this Bill of Lading shall govern the
responsibility of the Company in connection with or arising
out of the supply of a Container to the Merchant whether
before or after the Goods are received by the Company for
transportation or delivered to the Merchant.
9. Defenses and Limits of the Company
(i) The defenses and limits of liability provided
for in this Bill of Lading/Air waybill shall apply
in any action against the Company for loss or damage to the
Goods whether the action be founded in contract or tort.
(ii) The Company shall be entitled to the benefit of
the limitation of liability provided for in Clause 6. (iii) if it is proven that the loss or damage resulted from
an act of omission of the Company done with intent to cause
damage or recklessly and with knowledge that damage would
probably result. (iv)
Our company fully reserve our rights or actions against our client and must be fully indemnify against all consequences in consideration of our complying our clients or her agents, associates, servants, representatives, shipment instructions as to the documentation of our house Bill of Lading, port or airport of actual destination.
10. Inspection of Goods
The Company shall be entitled but under no obligation to
open any Container at any time and to inspect the contents.
If it thereupon appears that the contents or any part thereof
cannot safely or properly be carried or carried further,
either at all or without incurring any additional expense
or taking any measures in relation to the Container or its
contents or any part thereof, the Company may abandon the
transportation thereof and/or take any measures and/or incur
any reasonable additional expense to carry or to continue
the carriage or to store the same ashore or afloat under
cover or in the open at nay place which storage shall be
deemed to constitute due delivery under this Bill of Lading,
The Merchant shall indemnify the Company against any reasonable
additional expense so incurred.
11. Description of Goods
(i) This Bill of Lading/Air waybill shall be prima
facie evidence of the receipt by the Company in apparent
good order and condition except as otherwise noted of the
total number of Container or other packages or units enumerated
overleaf. Proof to the contrary shall not be admissible when
this Bill of Lading/Air waybill has been transferred
to a third party acting in good faith.
(ii) No representations made by the Company as to the weight,
contents, measure, quantity, quality, description condition,
marks, numbers or value of the Goods and the Company shall
be under no responsibility whatsoever in respect of such
description or particulars.
12. Shipper (Client's) Responsibility
(i) The shipper warrants to the Company that the particulars
relating to the Goods as set out overleaf have been checked
by the Shipper on receipt of this Bill of Lading/Air waybill
and that such particulars ;and ;any other particulars furnished
by or on behalf of the Shipper are correct.
(ii) The Shipper shall indemnify the Company against all
loss, damage and expenses arising or resulting from inaccuracies
in or inadequacy of such particulars . The right of the Company
to such indemnity shall in no way limit his responsibility
and liability under the Bill of Lading/Air waybill to any
person other than the Shipper.
(iii) All shipment undertaken by The Company is at clients'
own account and risk.
13. Freight and Charges
(i) Freight and charges shall be deemed fully earned in
receipt of the Goods by the Company and shall be paid and
non-returnable in any event.
(ii) The Merchants' attention is drawn to the stipulation
concerning currency in which the freight and charges are
to be paid rate of exchange, devaluation and other contingent
relative to freight and charges in the applicable tariff.
(iii) The freight has been calculated on the basis of particulars
furnished by or on behalf of the Shipper. The carrier may
at any time open any container or other package or unit in
order to reweigh, re-measure or re-value the contents and
if the particulars furnished by or on behalf of the Shipper
are incorrect, it is agreed that a sum equal to either five
times the difference between the correct freight and the
freight charged or to double the correct freight less the
freight charged, whichever sum is the smaller, shall be payable
as liquidated damages to the Company.
(iv) Full freight hereunder shall be due and payable at
the place where this Bill of Lading/Air waybill is
issued by the Shipper in cash without deduction on receipt
of the Goods or part thereof by the Company for shipment
even if stated in this Bill of Lading/Air waybill to
be payable elsewhere and shall be deemed to have been fully
earned upon receipt of such goods. All charges due hereunder
together with freight (if not paid) at the sea / air port
of loading as aforesaid) shall be due from and payable on
demand by the Shipper. Consignee, owner of the Goods of Holder
of this Bill of Lading/Air waybill (who shall be jointly
and severally liable to the Carrier thereof) at such port
or place as the Company may required, vessel or cargo lost
or not lost from any cause whatsoever.
(v) All Freight invoices owing to the Company must be
settled without deductions or deferment on account of
any claim, counter-claim or set-off.
14. Lien
The Company shall have a general lien on all Goods and documents
belonging to or in which the merchant has an interest etc
and for all sums payable to the Company under this contract
and for that purpose shall have the right to sell the Goods
by public auction or private freely without notice to the
Merchant.
This lien also applys to The Company worldwide agent in
respect to any air or ocean shipment being routed by The
Company, it's clients or agents accordingly but not limited to
the actual destination as instructed by our Company for strict
compliance.
15. Optional Stowage
(i) The Goods may be stowed by Company in Containers or
similar articles of transport used to consolidate goods.
(ii) Goods stowed in Containers other than flats or pallets
whether by the Company or the Merchant, may be carried on
or under deck without notice to the Merchant, Such goods
(other than livestock) whether carried on deck or under deck
shall participate in general average and shall be deemed
to be within the definition of goods for the purpose of the
Hague Rules.
16. Deck cargo
Goods (not being Good stowed in Containers other that flats
or pallets) which are stated herein to be carried on deck
are carried without responsibility on the part of the Company
for loss or damage of whatsoever nature arising during carriage
by sea whether caused by not -seaworthiness or negligence
or any other cause whatsoever.
17. Methods and Routes of Transportation
(i) The Company may at any time and without notice to the
Merchant:
(a) use any means of transport or storage whatsoever.
(b) transfer the goods from one conveyance to another including
trans-shipping or carrying the same on another vessel than
the vessel named overleaf or any other means of transport
whatsoever.
(c) proceed by any route in his discretion (whether or not
the nearest or most direct or customary or advertised route)
and proceed to or stay at any place or port whatsoever once
or more often and in any order.
(d) load and unload the Goods at any place or port (whether
or not any such port is named overleaf as the Port of Loading
or Port of Discharge) and store the Goods at any such place
or port.
(e) comply with any orders or recommendations given by any
government or authority or any person or body acting or purporting
to act as or on behalf of such government or authority or
having under the terms of the insurance on the conveyance
employed by the Company the right to give orders or directions.
(ii) The liberties set out in sub-clause (i) may be invoked
by the Company for any purpose whatsoever including undergoing
repairs, towing or being towed, adjusting instruments,
dry-docking and assisting vessels in all situations and
anything done in accordance with sub-clause (i) or any
delay arising there from shall be deemed to be within the
contractual carriage and shall not be a deviation.
18. Masters affecting Performance
If at any time the performance of the contract evidenced
by this Bill of Lading/Air waybill is or is likely to be
affected by any hindrance, risk, delay difficulty or disadvantage
of whatsoever kind which cannot be avoided by the exercise
of reasonable endeavor, the Company (whether or not the transport
is commenced) may without notice to the Merchant treat the
performance of this contract as terminated and place the
Goods or any part of them at the Merchant's disposal at any
place or port which the Company may deem safe and convenient
whereupon the responsibility of the Company in respect of
such Goods received for transportation and the Merchant shall
pay any additional costs of carriage to and delivery and
storage at such place or port.
19. Dangerous Goods
(i) The Merchant undertakes not to tender for transportation
any Goods which are of a dangerous, inflammable, radioactive
or damaging nature without previously giving written notice
of their nature to the Carrier and making the Goods and the
Container or other casing on the outside as /required by
any laws or regulations which may be applicable during the
carriage.
(ii) If the requirements of sub-clause (i) are not complied
with, the Merchant shall indemnify the Company against all
loss, damage or expenses arising out of the Goods being tendered
for transportation or handled or carried by the Company.
(iii) Goods which are of any time become dangerous , inflammable,
radio-active or damaging may at any time or place, be unloaded,
destroyed or rendered harmless without compensation and if
the Merchant has not given notice of their nature to the
Company under (i) above, The Company shall be under no liability
to make any general average contribution in respect of such
Goods.
20. Refrigerated cargo
(1) the Merchant undertakes not to tender for transportation
any Goods which require refrigeration without previously
giving written notice of their nature and particular temperature
range to be maintained and in the case of a refrigerated
Container packed by or on behalf of the Merchant further
undertakes that the Goods have been properly stowed in the
Container and that its thermostatic controls have been adequately
set by him before receipt of the Goods by the Company.
If the above requirements are not complied with the Company
shall not be liable for nay loss of or damage to the Goods
howsoever arising.
(2) The Company shall not be liable for any loss of or damage
to the Goods arising from latent defect, derangement, breakdown,
stoppage of the refrigerating machinery, insulation and/or
any apparatus of the Container, vessel, conveyance and any
other facilities, provided that the Company shall before
or at the beginning of the transport exercise due diligence
to maintain the refrigerated Container in an efficient state.
21. Regulations relating to Goods
The Merchant shall comply with all regulations or requirements
of Customs, port and other authorities, and shall bear and
pay all duties, taxes, fines, imposts ,expenses or losses
incurred or suffered by reason thereof or by reason of any
illegal, incorrect or insufficient marking, numbering or
addressing of the Goods and indemnify the Company in respect
thereof.
22. Notification and delivery
(1) Any mention in this Bill of Lading/Air waybill of parties
to be notified of the arrival of the Goods is solely for
information of the Company and failure to give such notification
shall not involve the Company in any liability nor relieve
the Merchant of any obligation hereunder
(2) The Merchant shall take delivery of the goods within
this time provided for in the Company's applicable tariff.
(3) If the Merchant fails to take delivery of the Goods
or part of them in accordance with this Bill of Lading/Air
waybill the carrier may without notice un-stow the
Goods or that part thereof and/or store the Goods or that
part thereof ashore, afloat, in the open or under cover,
Such storage shall constitute due delivery hereunder, and
thereupon all liability whatsoever of the Company in respect
of the Goods or that part thereof shall cease.
(4) The Merchant's attention is drawn to the stipulations
concerning free storage time and demurrage contained in the
Company's applicable tariff, which is incorporated in this
Bill of Lading/Air waybill.
23. Insurance
The Company shall only be responsible for loss or damages to
our equipment or any injury to our employees and shall not
be liable beyond that to any part whatsoever.
Your company is responsible for taking up , at your own
expense, all necessary insurance coverage for the goods during
transit, transportation and whilst they are in our custody
and/or stored in our premises and shall ensure that the respective
insurers waive all rights of subrogation against our company
, our affiliates and our respective employees, servants or
agents.
Your company shall therefore provide the necessary insurance
to cover any loss or damage that may arise to your company
principal's cargo during transportation, handling, loading,
unloading and shall only look to your insurers solely for
recovery of such loss or damage.
Out company shall only arrange insurance cover on your behalf
only upon oral /express or written instructions and upon
your acceptance of premiums payable for such arrangement.
24. Law and Jurisdiction
The contract evidenced hereby or contained herein shall
be governed by Law of Country of Issue, Any claim or other
dispute thereafter shall be solely determined by the courts
of the Country of Issue of this Bill of Lading/Air waybill.
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