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… a requirement that carriers must provide full details of all containerised cargo shipped to a US port from a foreign port to the US Bureau of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) via the Automated Manifest…

… sent a message to the shipbrokers’ operations department advising that on the way to the discharge port the ship would make a quick stop to conduct a crew change. The shipbroker failed to pass the message on…

… circular to its panel of brokers informing them that tankers discharging at a certain North African port required a stern line.  About ten days later a London tanker broker re-negotiated the fixture of a…

…International Transport Intermediaries Club (ITIC) has emphasised how avoidable errors can prove expensive for ship agents. In the latest issue of its Claims Review, ITIC recounts how a ship agent at a tidal port in…

…A port agent in the UK received a container list from his principal's South American agent which included two containers of frozen meat shipped at -18oC.  When this information was transferred to the agent's…

… in advance, only notifying them once a number of containers had already been delivered to the port. The seller of the cargo was unable to provide the certificate to the shipper straight away. Whilst the…

… adjacently, he inadvertently confirmed the opposite. The acrylonitrile was loaded at the first port with the error only being discovered a few hours before the ship was due to arrive at the second port to…

…Ship agents can predict their financial exposure to the usual costs of a port call but there are occasions when unexpected developments mean the final disbursement account is far greater than could have been anticipated.

…A commercial manager was instructed to plan a voyage to Acu Port, Brazil.  

… well as their principals. Under local regulations in Peru it is necessary for a ship’s master to report that the ship is entering Peruvian waters to the port captaincy office. Ship agents routinely report…