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…The International Transport Intermediaries Club (ITIC) warns of the dangers of allowing important information to be sent to individual email addresses with no back-up.

… for a shipment of 24 containers of roofing tiles which were to be carried by barge to the load port before being transshipped onto a vessel bound for the UK.

…An agent was appointed by owners to manage loading operations at three ports. However, at one of the ports, the stevedores were on strike causing delay to the ship.

…A port agent was nominated by the charterers in respect of the loading of a cargo at an Australian port.

… 20% open”. Unfortunately, due to an error on the part of the staff at the liner agent in the load port, the reefer container list instruction for the eventual transportation of the container indicated that…

…nited States, the Merchant Marine Act of 1920 (“The Jones Act”) in essence provides that all merchandise transported by water between U.S. ports must be carried on U.S. flag ships. 

…A ship agent failed to manifest a cargo, which was a yacht, at the original port of loading. At the second port on the voyage the customs inspectors identified the error and seized the yacht.

… the discharge of a large project cargo from their principal’s ship on arrival and getting it transported to another port in the same country.

…ITIC received notice of a claim faced by a liner agent at an African port. The agent had arranged for cargo to be delivered to an inland destination in a forty foot container leased by his principal. In due course a…

… bills of lading and that the latter had in fact sent the fax to the receiver.  An English port agent was appointed by the charterer's general agent, who instructed him to release 500 metric tonnes of…