THE BILL OF LADING, TITLE OF VALUE IN INTERNATIONAL CARRIAGE OF GOODS BY SEA
THE BILL OF LADING, TITLE OF VALUE IN INTERNATIONAL CARRIAGE OF GOODS BY SEA

Summary/Abstract: The maritime bill of lading is the most important document of transport of goods by sea, the modern form of it being able to be defined as “a receipt signed by, or on behalf of the carrier and issued to the shipper acknowledging that goods as he described them, have been loaded onboard the ship, to a specific destination or they have been received in the ship owner’s custody for maritime transport , a document, a title of goods, giving the possibility to the consignee to receive goods at destination or to dispose of the goods by endorsement and fractioning of the bill of lading .In the United Nations Convention regarding carriage of goods by sea, (article 1 par. (7)), there is the first definition of the bill of lading in an international judicial document as being a document which makes evidence of a contract of carriage by sea and taking or loading goods by the carrier, by which the carrier takes responsibility to deliver goods in exchange of this document”.

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