CAO 6-2019 Flashcards
DEFINITION OF TERM (16 cards)
shall refer to a corporation engaged in air transportation of goods, parcels and mail, and passengers
Airlines
shall refer to the Bureau of Customs
Bureau
shall refer to persons, corporations, firms or associations, actually transporting goods or in charge of or responsible for the operation of the means of transport such as airlines, shipping lines, freight forwarders, cargo consolidators, non-vessel operating common carriers and other international transport operators
Carrier
shall refer to a juridical entity which procures transport of goods by sea or air and issues house bill of lading or house air waybill 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 goods together in its name consigned to its Deconsolidation Agent abroad
Consolidator for Export
shall refer to a local freight forwarder or consolidator’s agent that provides services to ungroup or deconsolidate shipments, orders, goods, etc. to facilitate distribution.
Deconsolidator
refer to entities authorized to act for or on behalf of the carrier, for accepting, handling, loading/unloading, transiting, or dealing with cargo, passengers and baggage
Ground Handling Agents (Cargo Agents, Airline Agents)
shall refer to an air waybill covering a single, individual shipment or consignment issued by international air freight forwarder or a consolidator to the respective shippers
House Air Waybill (HAWB)
shall refer to a bill of lading covering a single, individual shipment or consignment issued by the international sea freight forwarder, NVOCCS 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
House Bill of Lading (HBL)
shall refer to a local entity that acts as a cargo intermediary and facilitates transport of goods on behalf of its clients without assuming the role of a carrier, which also performs other forwarding services, such as booking cargo space, negotiating freight rates, preparing documents, advancing freight payment, providing packing or crating, trucking and warehousing, engaging as an agent or as a representative of a foreign NVOCCs or as a deconsolidator named in a master bill of lading as consignee of a consolidated shipment, and other related undertakings
Freight Forwarder
shall refer to a company that provides management over the flow of goods and materials between the points of origin to end-use destination. The provider will often handle shipping, inventory, warehousing, packaging and security functions of the shipments
Logistics Provider
shall refer to an air waybill issued by a common air carrier to a consolidator covering a consolidated shipment
Master Air Waybill (MAWB)
shall refer to an ocean bill of lading issued by a common ocean carrier to a consolidator covering a consolidated shipment.
Master Ocean Bill of Lading (MBL)
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
Non-Vessel Operating Common Carriers (NVOCCs)
shall refer to the person who is to have or (once fluid is conveyed) has control over the conveyance of fluid in the pipeline
Pipeline Operators
shall refer to the person entrusted with provisioning or representing the vessel in the Port in which it may be found
Shipping Agents
shall refer to a juridical entity that transports cargoes and passengers aboard ships or vessels across oceans or seas.
Shipping Line
