文档介绍：Chapter 9
International Cargo Transportation
Methods of the Delivery
Ocean transport
Railway transport
Air transport
River and lake transport
Postal transport
Road transport
Pipelines transport
Land bridge transport
International multimode transport
Ocean Transport
Ocean transport is the most widely used form of transportation in international trade as well as the most efficient form in terms of energy.
It is a cheap mode of transport for delivery large quantities of goods over long distance.
The types of ocean vessel
Shipping by Chartering
Liner/regular shipping liner
Shipping by Chartering租船运输
Voyage charter 定程租船
Time charter 定期租船
Demise charter 光船租船
Voyage charter
The voyage charter is one for the carriage of goods from one specified port to another, or for a round trip.
It includes single voyage charter, return voyage charter and essive voyage charter.
Time charter
The charterer charters the ship for a period of time during which the ship is deployed and managed by the charterer. What concerns the charterer most is the period, not the voyage. The chartering may be for a period of one year or of several years.
Demise charter
It is also called bare-boat charter, the charterer takes a lease of the entire ship for an agreed time.
Demise charter belongs to time charter.
The differences are: as to time charter, during the period of chartering, the ship-owner provides the charterer with a crew, while as to bare-boat charter, the ship-owner only provides the charterer with a bare-boat, the charterer shall employ the crew and pay the crew’s wages and provisions, ship’s maintenance and stores etc. by himself, apart form those expenses he is responsible for under the time charter.
Charter party租船合同
The charter party is a contract concluded between the ship-owner and the charterer when the latter charters the ship or booking shipping space from the former.
It stipulates the rights and obligations of the two parties.
The main terms include: the interested pa