Conditions On Shipping Ocean Freight From USA PDF
Conditions On Shipping Ocean Freight From USA PDF
Conditions On Shipping Ocean Freight From USA PDF
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Amid Logistics, LLC GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS USING OUR SHIPPING SERVICES
Effective on March 1, 2011: For updated General Terms and Conditions refer to this link http://containers.internationalshippingusa.com/AMID_Terms_And_Conditions_Seafreight.aspx +++++++++ IMPORTANT! THE INFO BELOW IS NOT UPDATED ++++++++ In order to use shipping services provided by Amid Logistics, LLC (thereafter we, us, our etc) all users of these services (thereafter shipper, you, client, customer, he, she etc) must agree to the Terms and Conditions. You may not use these shipping services if you do not accept the Terms and Conditions. You can accept the Terms and Conditions by:
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Clicking to accept or agree to the Terms and Conditions, where this option is made available to you in the user interface for any service; or By actually using these shipping services. In this case, you understand and agree that we will treat your use of these shipping services as acceptance of the Terms and Conditions from that point onwards.
LICENSING
Amid Logistics, LLC (thereafter we, us, our) is a licensed and bonded U.S. OTI Ocean Transportation Intermediary / International Shipping Company. Copy of our OTI license with a proof of financial responsibilities (surety bond) may be furnished upon request.
GENERAL
All information published in our website including shipping rates obtained in quotes is subject to changes without notices. All texts, references and links should be considered only as suggestions based on our working experience in the sea freight shipping industry. We do not guarantee its accuracy in all circumstances. It cannon be considered such official shipping procedures in all situations. We cannot guarantee that our website is free from typos either in the texts content or numbers in shipping rates, charges etc. If a consumer (thereafter shipper, you, client, customer, he, she) faces with a misunderstanding or error, we will do our best to resolve the issue with less harm for both of us ASAP. To eliminate any miss-understandings, shipper must not accept any verbal shipping agreements. We cannot honor verbal shipping price quotes or any perceived promises. Shipping pricing, commitments and promises have to be in writing. Detailed service conditions from a sea freight carrier used on your shipment can be found on backside of ocean freight bill of lading issued to you. Consider this ocean freight bill of lading an evidence of a contract of carriage / shipping between ocean freight carrier and shipper.
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COMMUNICATION
In our practice email is considered as a mandatory method of communication with our customers. It is customers responsibility to provide correct contact email on the sea freight shipment, both at the origin and destination. Failure receiving of our email for any reasons may result in the sea freight shipment delay and/or extra charges and/or other difficulties. If our client does not receive our email as expected, then it is the clients responsibility to contact us in order to find a reason of not-receiving the email. Our staff is trained and responsible for providing quality freight forwarding / international shipping service on particular shipments. We unable to educate our clients on all aspects related to the international shipping industry terms and procedures over the phone. We build wide library of shipping references and answers to FAQ in our website. We strongly recommend reading these shipping references and FAQ. Before calling, customers have to obtain our shipping price quote or shipping booking reference number via the website in email. Without this shipping reference number, i.e. not having information on your perspective or current sea freight shipment, we most likely will not be able to provide answers to your questions.
SHIPPING DOCUMENTS
It is shippers responsibility on description, legality of commodity and sufficiency of shipping documents submitted to an international sea freight shipment. We are not responsible for any information submitted by shippers in theirs shipping documents. It is shippers responsibility to provide all necessary shipping documents related to his ocean freight shipment that will be required by origin and destination country officials. All shipping documents must be completed by shipper and sent to us, no later than one day after shipment is delivered to the ocean freight carrier. Failure to complete shipping documents may result in increasing shipping cost, delay, storage charges and/or other penalties. With us, shippers will be able to schedule ocean freoght shipment online and receive email with complete shipping instructions. Exporter must follow these shipping instructions. Failure following these shipping instructions may result in the shipment cancellation, shipping delay or unpredictable extra-charges. We will not be held responsible for any issues that may occur due to failure following to these shipping instructions.
DIMENSIONAL WEIGHT
Pickup and/or line-haul shipping charges are based either on Actual or Dimensional weight of your shipped cargo, whichever is greater.
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transportation. When shipping NMFC rated shipments, shipper must be asured that freight class provided is accurate. Sipper may also call the NMFTA direct at (703) 838-1810 in order to reconfirm freight class on his/her shipment by commodity. Shipper is held responsible on freight class declaration. Our pickup/line haul shipping price quotes are based on the freight class declared by shipper. Declaration of incorrect freight class may result to shipping price schedule change.
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In certain circumstances, even though an online payment had passed CVV and full AVS verification in Google Checkout or PayPal, we keep the right to request an additional confirmation(s) and/or verification on this payment. Notice: If a shipment had paid by credit card(s) then before issuing a bill of lading we may ask for a confirmation that payer clearly understands that the ocean freight bill of lading is our final document on this shipment. It is the title on shipped goods and proof on transfer of the ownership on the shipped goods to the consignee in the ocean freight bill of lading (recipient of shipped goods). This will confirm that after receiving the ocean freight bill of lading our shipping service provided is completed as agreed. All parties that may concern of payment(s) on the shipment done by credit card(s) will consider this email the receipt on this payment(s) with payer's signature in it.
RISKY SHIPMENTS
In certain circumstances we keep the right to reconsider any regular ocean freight shipment to a Risky Shipment at any time. Risky ocean freight shipment can be considered for the following reasons (but not limited by these reasons only): suspicious money transfers or bounced checks, incomplete or incorrect consigner/consignee information submitted to the ocean freight shipment, discrepancy on estimated volume and weight submitted in a booking request against actual volume and weight retrieved by ocean freight carrier more than 50%, incorrect type of commodity, commodity description and/or pickup location declared in initial booking request, failures to submit proper shipping documentation and/or information required by ocean freight carrier and/or U.S. Customs, failures to pay our freight invoices etc. Terms and conditions on risky ocean freight shipments will differ from term and conditions on regular ocean freight shipments as published in this web page. Terms and conditions on risky shipments will be amended depend on a particular situation. Changes in terms and conditions on risky ocean freight shipments can be as follows (but not limited by): changes on cargo acceptance requirements, changes in payment methods and terms, changes in release conditions, amendments in ocean freight bill of ladings, our freight
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invoices etc. As long as we consider an international ocean freight shipment a risky shipment, customer will be notified. As long as a customer is notified, then no verbal agreements or commitments can be accepted. All correspondence related to risky shipments must be in writing and can be used as an evidence.
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