![]() ![]() There are two main types of carriers or methods by which goods are delivered: The most common type of carrier is the railway carrier because it is the cheapest way to transport goods from one place to another. There are many types of carriers, such as railways, buses, airlines, freight forwarders, postal service, etc. A carrier is an individual who owns or charters a vessel and undertakes to perform cargo carriage, releasing his own bills of lading, but is not involved in the ship's manning, management, and equipment. In this section, we will focus on the role of carriers in the logistics industry. The first charterer, who is commonly called a “head charterer," is acting as if he was the actual owner he can be referred to as the "disponent owner". Also, both voyage charters and time charters usually include a clause allowing the charterer to "relet", "sub-let”, or “subcharter” the ship to another user, a "subcharterer". In turn, the disponent owner may sub-charter the ship to a carrier interested in performing the carriage of cargo under his own bills of lading.įor instance, if a vessel is bareboat chartered by its owner to a demise charterer, the latter can take over complete control of the vessel and its commercial operation as if he is the actual owner. In the case of bare boat charter, the disponent owner provides the crew, while in the case of voyage or time charter, the crew is in the shipowner's care, but the latter is never involved in the commercial aspect of the venture. ![]() The Ship Company: The company that owns and operates ships on behalf of other entities, such as charterers or shippers (cargo owners).Ī shipowner may charter a ship on a bareboat charter, voyage charter, or time charter basis to a disponent owner whose sole interest is the navigation of the ship.The Charterer: This is the entity that hires a ship to carry its cargo on a specific voyage or series of voyages at a fixed price per unit (tonne) shipped.The Shipowner: This is the entity that owns the vessel, pays for its operation, and bears the risk of loss or damage to cargo in transit.There are different types of shipowners, each with their own set of responsibilities. i.e., the carriage of cargo against the release of his own BS/L. This article aims to clarify their meaning as well as to explain how they can be distinguished from each other.Ī shipowner is an individual who looks after the manning and management of a ship, supplying the necessary navigation equipment and instrumentation to guarantee her full seaworthiness and safety at sea, and is involved, on his own, both in the exercise of navigation and in the commercial exploitation of the ship. ![]() The terms "shipowner," "disponent owner", and "carrier" are often used interchangeably by people in the shipping industry. There may therefore be a single shipowner owning the total number of "parts", or various shipowners each owning a different number of parts. This division serves, depending on the case, either to limit heavy initial investment on the part of an individual or to share running costs as well as profits among various investors. The ship, for example, is divided into 64 parts in the United Kingdom but only 24 parts in Italy and France. Every ship is a physically undivided "unit," but its property is in fact legally split into ideal "parts," the number of which differs from country to country.
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