{"id":6052,"date":"2019-06-06T12:32:38","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T16:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.letterofcredit.biz\/?p=6052"},"modified":"2019-06-06T18:19:53","modified_gmt":"2019-06-06T22:19:53","slug":"what-are-the-differences-between-consignee-and-shipper-fields-of-bills-of-lading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.letterofcredit.biz\/index.php\/2019\/06\/06\/what-are-the-differences-between-consignee-and-shipper-fields-of-bills-of-lading\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the Differences Between Consignee and Shipper Fields of Bills of Lading?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bill of lading is a transport document covering the carriage of goods by sea.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.letterofcredit.biz\/index.php\/2019\/05\/15\/consignee-of-a-bill-of-lading\/\">Consignee<\/a> means a person entitled to take delivery of the goods under a contract of carriage indicated on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.letterofcredit.biz\/index.php\/2018\/04\/02\/bill-of-lading\/\">bill of lading<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.letterofcredit.biz\/index.php\/2019\/04\/03\/parties-on-a-bill-of-lading-shipper-consignee-notify-party-and-carrier\/\">Shipper<\/a> means a person that enters into a contract of carriage with a carrier. Shipper also known as consignor.<\/p>\n<p>On today&#8217;s post I explain the main differences between the consignee and shipper fields of bills of lading.<\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Differences Between Consignee and Shipper<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.letterofcredit.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/shipper-and-consignee-differences-billoflaing.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6081\" src=\"https:\/\/www.letterofcredit.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/shipper-and-consignee-differences-billoflaing.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"775\" height=\"511\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.letterofcredit.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/shipper-and-consignee-differences-billoflaing.png 775w, https:\/\/www.letterofcredit.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/shipper-and-consignee-differences-billoflaing-300x198.png 300w, https:\/\/www.letterofcredit.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/shipper-and-consignee-differences-billoflaing-768x506.png 768w, https:\/\/www.letterofcredit.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/shipper-and-consignee-differences-billoflaing-696x459.png 696w, https:\/\/www.letterofcredit.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/shipper-and-consignee-differences-billoflaing-637x420.png 637w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 775px) 100vw, 775px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Seller versus Buyer:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Usually consignor is the exporter and consignee is the importer in any shipping document used in international trade. Bill of lading is not an exception.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Position Against Goods:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Consignor hands out the goods to the carrier at the port of loading. Consignee takes delivery of the goods from the carrier at the port of discharge.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Title of Goods:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Consignee field determines how title of goods will be delivered from the shipper to the consignee.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Consignee field determines if the bill of lading issued in straight, negotiable or bearer format.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Shipper determines how consignee field is completed by giving necessary instructions to the carrier.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Related Articles:<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.letterofcredit.biz\/index.php\/2019\/05\/31\/notify-party-of-a-bill-of-lading\/\">Notify Party of a Bill of Lading<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.letterofcredit.biz\/index.php\/2019\/05\/15\/consignee-of-a-bill-of-lading\/\">Consignee of a Bill of Lading<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.letterofcredit.biz\/index.php\/2019\/05\/10\/how-to-complete-a-bill-of-lading-under-a-letter-of-credit-payment\/\">How to Complete a Bill of Lading under a Letter of Credit Payment?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.letterofcredit.biz\/index.php\/2019\/04\/03\/parties-on-a-bill-of-lading-shipper-consignee-notify-party-and-carrier\/\">Parties on a Bill of Lading: Shipper, Consignee, Notify Party and Carrier<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.letterofcredit.biz\/index.php\/2019\/02\/25\/to-order-and-blank-endorsed-bill-of-lading\/\">To Order and Blank Endorsed Bill of Lading<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.letterofcredit.biz\/index.php\/2018\/12\/02\/what-are-the-differences-between-a-bill-of-lading-and-a-charter-party-bill-of-lading\/\">What are the Differences Between a Bill of Lading and a Charter Party Bill of Lading?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.letterofcredit.biz\/index.php\/2018\/11\/25\/freight-forwarders-bill-of-lading-not-acceptable\/\">Freight Forwarder\u2019s Bill of Lading Not Acceptable<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill of lading is a transport document covering the carriage of goods by sea. Consignee means a person entitled to take delivery of the goods under a contract of carriage indicated on a bill of lading. Shipper means a person<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6072,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[152,150],"tags":[107,146,162,503,505],"class_list":["post-6052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bill-of-lading","category-letter-of-credit-documents","tag-bill-of-lading","tag-consignee","tag-letter-of-credit-documents","tag-notify-party","tag-shipper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.letterofcredit.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.letterofcredit.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.letterofcredit.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.letterofcredit.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.letterofcredit.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.letterofcredit.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.letterofcredit.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.letterofcredit.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.letterofcredit.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.letterofcredit.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}