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Examples of TRANSPORT documents:

f. Sea waybill

• A Sea Waybill is a transport contract (contract of carriage) -

the same as a Bill of Lading.

• A Sea Waybill, however, is not needed for cargo delivery

and is only issued as a cargo receipt. It can either be issued

in hard copy format or soft copy format

• A transport document for maritime shipment which serves

as evidence of the contract of carriage and as a receipt for

the goods, but is not a document of title.

• The sea waybill indicates the on board loading of the

goods and can be used in cases where no ocean bill of

lading and no other document of title is required.

• For receipt of the goods, presentation of the sea waybill by

the consignee named therein is not required, which can

speed up processing at the port of destination. See bill of

lading; ocean bill of lading.