The credit term were requesting a Clean On Board Ocean B/L from A region to Z port and that prohibits Transship. But on the actual presented documents, the place of taking in charge for the B/L is A port and the port of loading is B port. So the debtor notified of the payment rejection declaring the discrepancy of shipping port of loading and the port of loading in B/L and that the Transship was executed.
Case study
1. Multimodal transport documents
Multimodal transport documents is issued at the point when the shipment has been took in charge by the combined transport operator. This contradicts to the issuance of a Clean On Board Ocean B/L when it is loaded in the intented vessel. Therefore, the multimodal transport documents are the receivable B/L in principle. It means the goods have been took charge of for shipping documents issuance therefore, it is not necessary to indicate the actual shipment. But if a credit is requesting a original B/L after the shipment is done, the actual shipment must be indicated.
2. For the discrepancy in loading port and taking in charge and discrepancy in discharging port and final destination with multimodal transport, it is relevant to indicate other taking in charge region from an actual port of loading of L/C or the discharging port differently from L/C. And it is also relevant to indicate the port of loading and discharging port as "scheduled". (The Sub-Article 26(iii-a,b) of U.C.P. 500)
Multimodal transport is not a port to port transportations but a transportations from a certain point of content to other certain point of content which is "works to works or door to door" method so a port of loading or discharging port indication may now show in a credit term. As of a result, the taking in charge and the final destination should be consistent to the credit term but the port of loading and discharging port can be appointed to other port in the areas.
3.Transshipment with Multimodal transport
With multimodal transport, Transship process is possible even with the prohibition clauses stating " Transship is possible, Transship could be processed" and should accept the multimodal transport documents accordingly. But the whole transportations section have to be based on an identical multimodal transport documents.
Conclusion
For this case, since the place taking in charge region A is inland city, if a shipping document from A to B is requested, it should be regarded as multimodal transport documents. So if the place taking in charge is A region and if the actual port of loading is port B, and if the place that started is A which is consistent to the credit, there should be no problem.
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