CAO 15-2020

Question 1

shall refer to the time that the Vessel has reached the End of Sea Passage

Answer 1

Actual Time of Arrival (ATA)

Question 2

shall refer to any weight - carrying device or structure -for navigation in the air.

Answer 2

Aircraft

Question 3

shall refer to an airline corporation engaged in both domestic and international air transportation of goods, passengers, or both.

Answer 3

Airlines

Question 3

shall refer to a transport document for
airfreight used by airlines and international freight forwarders which specify the holder or consignee of the bill who has the right to claim delivery of the goods when they arrive at the port of destination. It is a contract of carriage that Includes carrier conditions, such as limits of liability and claims procedures. In addition, it contains transport instructions to airlines and carriers, a description of the goods, and applicable transportation charges.

Answer 3

Air Waybill (AWB)

Question 4

shall refer to a person who represents a
shipping line or an airline and who by written authority duly registered in the Bureau has been designated to act for and in place of a shipping line or airline in all formalities connected with the entry and departure of its Vessel or Aircraft, crew, passengers, cargo, baggage, mail or stores.

Answer 4

Authorized Agent

Question 5

shall refer to a heavy cargo which is loaded on board a Vessel or Aircraft merely for the purpose of making it steady, to enable it to navigate in the event of scarcity of other cargo. It may include non-toxic materials with no commercial value

Answer 5

Ballast

Question 6

shall refer to a transport document issued by shipping lines, carriers and international freight forwarders or non-vessel operating common carrier for water-borne freight. The holder or consignee of the bill has the right to claim delivery of the goods at the port of destination. It is a contract of carriage that includes carrier conditions, such as limits of liability and claims procedures. In addition, it contains transport instructions to shipping lines and carriers, a description of the goods, and applicable transportation charges

Answer 6

Bill of Lading (B/L)

Question 7

shall refer to the formalities conducted
on board the foreign Vessel or Aircraft by government officials composed of Customs, Immigration & Quarantine (CIQ).

Answer 7

Boarding Formalities

Question 8

shall refer to non-containerized general cargo stored in boxes, bales, pallets or other individual units to be loaded onto or discharged from Vessel or Aircrafts, not shipped in containers or in bulk.

Answer 8

Break-bulk Cargo

Question 9

shall refer to cargoes in a mass of one commodity not packaged, bundled, bottled or otherwise packed

Answer 9

Bulk Cargo

Question 10

shall refer to an international freight
forwarder which, in the ordinary and usual course of its undertaking, assembles and consolidates or provides for assembling and consolidating such articles or performs or provides for the performance of break-bulk and distributing operations with respect to consolidated shipments, and is responsible for the transportation of articles from the point of receipt to point of destination and utilize for the whole or any part of such transportation services of the ocean carrier.

Answer 10

Cargo Consolidator

Question 11

shall refer to the detailed list of cargo (freight) on board a Vessel or Aircraft giving the commercial particulars of the goods, such as transport document numbers, consignors, consignees, marks and numbers, number and kind of packages, weight, descriptions, quantities of the goods and destination. This also refers to Inward Foreign Cargo Manifest.

Answer 11

Cargo Manifest

Question 12

shall refer to the juridical persons responsible for the
transport of goods such as airlines, shipping lines, international freight forwarders, cargo consolidators, non-vessel operating common carriers and other international transport operators

Answer 12

Carrier

Question 13

shall refer to the party appearing in the transport document to whom delivery of the shipment may be lawfully made in accordance with the contract of carriage

Answer 13

Consignee

Question 14

shall refer to a true
and accurate manifest, of all the individual shipments in the consolidation destined and intended to be unloaded at a port entry in the Philippines, submitted as rider to the Cargo Manifest of the carrying Vessel or Aircraft

Answer 14

Consolidated Cargo Manifest (CCM)

Question 15

shall refer to a juridical person which procures
transport of goods by sea or air and issues house bill of lading or house airway bill to consignors of shipments under its solicitation, to whom it directly assumes the liabilities and responsibilities of a carrier for the transportation of such goods from the point of receipt to the point of destination of such goods, and ships the shipments together in its name consigned to its Deconsolidation Agent in the Philippines

Answer 15

Consolidator

Question 16

shall refer to the date of the completion of the unloading of the entire shipment from the international carrier¹3 which is the reckoning period within which to lodge the goods declaration.

Answer 16

Date of Discharge of Last Package

Question 17

shall refer to the agent of the cargo consolidator in the Philippines that provides services to deconsolidate shipments, orders, goods, etc, to facilitate distribution.

Answer 17

Deconsolidation Agent

Question 18

shall refer to the report issued by an Accredited Cargo Surveying Company (ACSC) for bulk or break-bulk cargo after the conduct of a survey at the port of discharge

Answer 18

Discharge Port Survey (DPS) Report

Question 19

shall refer to the waypoint where a Vessel ends the deep sea part of a voyage, usually at the arrival port where the Vessel plans to transit from full speed to maneuvering status

Answer 19

End of Sea Passage

Question 20

shall refer to the time
declared by the Master or its agent in the notice of arrival submitted to the Bureau of Customs.

Answer 20

Estimated Time of Arrival (ETA)

Question 21

shall refer to a port or place outside the jurisdiction of the Philippines.

Answer 21

Foreign Port

Question 22

shall refer to commercial interchange of commodities between different countries; export and import trade. It is synonymous with the term “foreign commerce”, which is the trade between individuals or legal entities in different countries

Answer 22

Foreign Trade

Question 23

shall refer to special economic zones registered
with the Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) under Republic Act No. 7916, as amended, duly chartered or legislated special economic zones and freeports such as Clark Freeport Zone, Clark Special Economic Zone, Clark Green City; Poro Point Freeport Zone; John Hay Special Economic Zone and Subic Bay Freeport Zone under Republic Act No. 7227, as amended by Republic Act No. 9400; the Aurora Pacific Economic Zone and Freeport Authority under Republic Act No. 9490, as amended by Republic Act 10083; the Cagayan Special Economic Zone and Freeport under Republic Act No. 7922; the Zamboanga City Special Economic Zone Authority under Republic Act No. 7903; the Freeport Area of Bataan under Republic Act No. 9728, Morong Special Economic Zone under Proclamation 984 s. 1997; and such other freeports as established or may be created by law

Answer 23

Free Zone

Question 24

shall refer to a local juridical person that acts as a cargo intermediary and facilitates transport of goods on behalf of its client and may issue its House Bill of Lading or House Air Waybill, which can also perform other forwarding services such as but not limited to negotiating freight rates, preparing documents, advancing freight payments providing packing or crating, trucking and warehousing, engaging as an agent or representative or of a foreign non-vessel operating as a common carrier or cargo consolidator or deconsolidator named as consignee in a master bill of lading or Air Waybill/de-consolidator named in the master Air Waybill as consignee of a consolidated shipment, and other related undertakings

Answer 24

Freight Forwarder

Question 25

shall refer to permit issued by the Authorized Customs Boarding Officer properly endorsed at the back thereof; granting permission to load and unload cargoes upon completion of Boarding Formalities and submission of the required documents.

Answer 25

General Permit to Load and Unload

Question 26

shall refer to a bill of lading covering a single, individual shipment or consignment issued by the international freight forwarder, NVOCC or a consolidator to the respective shippers containing the names and addresses, respectively, of both the consignor or sender and the consignee or receiver and the detailed, specific description of the goods shipped through sea

Answer 26

House Bill of Lading (HBL)

Question 27

shall refer to the captain of a ship or the chief commanding officer of a ship

Answer 27

Master of the Vessel

Question 28

shall refer to an entity, which does not own or operate a Vessel that provides a point-to-point service which may include several modes of transport of full container load and less container load (LCL) shipments and issues corresponding transport document

Answer 28

Non-Vessel Operating Common Carrier (NVOCC)

Question 29

shall refer to international Vessel for purposes other than loading and discharging of cargoes such as but not limited to leisure, racing yacht foreign fishing Vessel and local fishing Vessel coming from abroad, and those Vessels going to the Philippines for bunkering, watering, for change crew, to discharge human cadaver, for provisions, dry docking, for conversion, and sheltering

Answer 29

Non-working International Vessel

Question 30

shall refer to a person aboard the Aircraft who is ultimately responsible for its operation and safety during flight.

Answer 30

Pilot-in-Command

Question 31

shall refer to the first Philippine port of call of a foreign carrier. These shall be the ports designated as such by applicable laws or by the President in the exercise of his authority to open or close any port

Answer 31

Port of Entry

Question 32

shall refer to the permission granted by quarantine officials to a Vessel or Aircraft to hold intercourse with the port after the ship or Aircraft has complied with quarantine laws, rules and regulations

Answer 32

Pratique

Question 33

shall refer to the owner or person for whose account the ocean transportation of cargo is provided.

Answer 33

Shipper

Question 34

shall refer to a juridical person that transports cargoes aboard ships or Vessels across oceans or seas

Answer 34

Shipping Line

Question 35

shall refer to the authority issued by the Collector of Customs or his duly authorized representative for the customs officer assigned on a Vessel to allow the discharge of cargoes specified on the permit at shipside unto lighters, underguarded

Answer 35

Shipside Permit

Question 36

shall refer to the document that accompanies the transfer or transit of imported articles from the Vessel or Aircraft to a Customs Facilities and Warehouse (CFW), Customs Bonded Warehouse (CBW) or another port and serves as proof of delivery or receipt of the articles at its intended destination duly acknowledged on its face by the Collector of Customs or his duly authorized representative

Answer 36

Transfer Note

Question 37

shall refer to every sort of boats, crafts or other artificial contrivance used, or capable of being used, as means of transportation on water

Answer 37

Vessel