Logistics, Freight Forwarding and Trade

This portal covers the movement of goods around the ship: container liner networks, intermodal and multimodal transport, freight forwarding, customs and trade documentation, Incoterms, bills of lading and electronic bills of lading, and HS classification.

The reference texts are the ICC Incoterms 2020 rules, the World Customs Organization’s Harmonized System, the UN/LOCODE location codes, and the FIATA documents used by freight forwarders.

Carriage liability regimes belong to Maritime Law and the Law of the Sea; terminals and port charges belong to Ports, Terminals and Coastal Engineering.

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Incoterms 2020: The 11 ICC Rules, Risk and Cost
The 11 Incoterms 2020 rules: where risk passes to the buyer, who pays carriage, insurance, export and import clearance, and what changed from the 2010 edition.
Bill of lading
A bill of lading is the foundational shipping document serving as receipt for cargo, evidence of the contract of carriage.
Freight Forwarding and Incoterms: The Trade Chain
How a shipment moves from ex-works to landed cost: the forwarder, house and master B/L, Incoterms 2020 risk, customs duty, and insurance.
Cargo Insured Value: CIF Plus 10% and the Sum Insured
The sum insured on a marine cargo policy: CIF plus 10%, the Incoterms 2020 and UCP 600 minimums, valued policies, underinsurance, and premium arithmetic.
CBM and chargeable weight in freight
CBM, the dimensional-weight divisors for air, express, road and sea LCL, the container volume and payload ceilings, and the SOLAS verified gross mass rule.
Landed Cost and Import Duty: The Full Delivered Cost
Landed cost built line by line: WTO customs value on a CIF or FOB basis, the HS code duty rate, import VAT on the duty-inclusive base, brokerage and delivery.

All articles in this portal

9 articles, plus 66 in preparation.