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You are here: Home Archive 2009 December Weekly Edition 17th December 2009 Throwing the book at abandoned cargoes

Throwing the book at abandoned cargoes

by Jim Wilson last modified Dec 18, 2009 11:16 AM

BETWEEN September and late October 2008, a total of five 40ft containers over three bills of lading and different vessels originating from India were discharged for delivery in Melbourne.

  
Throwing the book at abandoned cargoes

ORPHANED CARGO: Need for systems to deal with unwanted containers.

These containers were declared to contain “lined exercise books”.
After the first container had not been uplifted, the named consignee, a well-known forwarder said it did not own the cargo and effectively abandoned the first container. It also refused to...

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