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Examples of TRANSPORT documents:

j. Mates receipt

• Mate's receipt is a receipt issued by the Commanding

Officer of the ship when the cargo is loaded on the ship.

He was the officer responsible for cargo.

• The document would be issued by him after the cargo was

tallied into the ship by tally clerks.

• It is a prima facie evidence that goods are loaded in the

vessel.

• The shipper or his representative would then take the

mate’s receipt to the master or the agent to exchange it

for a bill of lading, which would incorporate any conditions

inserted into the mate’s receipt.

• In modern days, the document known as the Mate’s

receipt” is not often signed by the mate of the ship but by

some person in the shore office of the shipping company

or its agents, although the name of the document remains

the same.