Posts by kelvinsee

Introduction Many will summarize FCL as Full Container Load and LCL as Lesser Container Load. This suggests that FCL caters to exporters requiring a full-sized container to load their cargo,...

Introduction In short, an advanced manifest submission requires any incoming/outgoing vessels to submit its shipping manifest 24 hours before vessel arrival or departure. Even though the vessel is...

Introduction Have you heard the phrase, “s**t happens, and there is nothing you can do about it”? This is the equivalent motif behind the term Force Majeure, a French way of saying there are...

Introduction DDP and DAP are both trade terms or more commonly known as INCOTERMS laid out in the contract of sales. It does not appear in the Bill of Lading or any other shipping documents other...

Introduction We have worked with countless importers and exporters, and they are in the trading business for a number of years and found success in this field. The mind wanders, it goes...

Introduction If things haven’t been complicated enough already, they had to have so many formats and types of Bill of Lading, haven’t we had enough??? The title of this post is “An...