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Freight forwarders have been warned about potentially huge financial losses and penalties if they continue to be attracted to handling what has become known as “freehand” or “free hand” container shipments.
Andy Robins, WCA customer services director, told The Loadstar that his organisation – a network of around 6,000 independent freight forwarders – had seen a growing number of cases where receiving forwarders had been left with enormous liabilities after a shipper or consignee, whose name was not on the documentation, had abandoned a ...
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Essau Malken
March 22, 2016 at 12:09 amHi Thanks for the warning and alerts.
Hitesh Joshi
March 22, 2016 at 5:28 amSir, Appreciate your update on the same. My views or suggests are as follows:
1. WCA members both shipper end and consignee end should take confirmative letters with exact KYC of both end parties and should exchange the details with each other.
2. Switching of house b/ls should not be allowed.
3. WCA member at discharge port should always inform the delivery and empty return of containers with proper photographs of before and after delivery of containers to avoid undue damage charges levied by s/lines.
Hope the above would be of help.
Victor Zhang
March 23, 2016 at 9:16 amMargin and risk always being together, do you think it’s possible to check every consignee’ credit before every spot shipment? It’s not easy to check one by one. To issue the MB/L directly, or purchase insurance of all risk.
Dorothy
June 21, 2018 at 4:04 amHi,
Please advise what should we action if the consignee totally no respond on their shipment ? We were charged by Carrier and port for the demurrage charges and is still going on.. !