Transshipment and Shipside

Everything about transshipment and shipside including

procedures.

Transshipment

Transfer of a shipment from one carrier, or more commonly, from one

vessel to another whereas in transit.

Transshipment usually takes place

in transport hubs. Much international

transshipment also takes place in

designated customs area.

Procedure

•Lodges Transshipment Permit to Bonds Division, Port of Manila

•Submits copy of Bill of Lading / Airways bill

•Bonds to entry goods to CBW

•Authority to release/ transfer, by CBW operator•(accredited member).

Validates sufficiency of bonds filed

Process chargeable bonds to cover estimated D/T

Transfers Transshipment Permit to Operating Division

Bonds Division

Importer/

Broker

Receives Transshipment Permit from Bonds DivisionRecords the Transshipment Permit number and other details to the central logbook of the Account OfficerTransshipment Permit- signed and transmitted by the Chief, Operating Division to Deputy Collector for Operations. Prepares Mission order and assign CBW guard

Operating

division

Checks the Transshipment Permit and its attachments

Transmit the Transshipment Permits to EPD for

segregation of copies and payment to telegrams and to

the Piers Inspection Division for preparation of boat

note

Processes transshipment Permit for final

delivery/release to CBW OperatorDEPUTY COLLECTOR FOR

OPERATIONS

NAIA/MICP/POM

Receives and checks the shipments covered by

Transshipment Permit

Files a corresponding warehousing entry

Stripping of the container shall be conducted in the

presence of the Customs Examiner and the CBW

Operator

CBW

WAREHOUSEMAN/

CBW OPERATOR

Application for Registration

Sea Transport Hub

Black Sea Port

Air Transport Hub

FEDEX Memphis, Tennessee City, USA

Air Transport Hub

DHL Leipzig, Germany

Required Documents:1. Transit Manifest separate triplicate shall be presented by each carrier.2. Transshipment Permit3. . Certified photo copy of Bill of Lading or Air Waybill4. Domestic Bill of Lading /AWB5. Carrier’s Bond – CAO 1-89

–Bonding of Common & Land Carriers and CMO 27-89 dated March 1, 1989 General Bond for Land Carriers / Common Carrier

6. Telegram/radiogram to the port of destination for advice of transshipment

7. Optional for South Harbor /MICP/ NAIA Plus: SBMA Transshipment Declaration or SBMA Form C, if you are at the Port of Subic

8. VTS – ICD – ATI Vehicle Tracking System

d. Other requirements:

1. Boat note

2. PID Customs Guard to under guard the cargo/conduction guard

3. Receipt of transshipment (Port of Destination)

4. Overtime / Conduction Fee (CAO 3-91 dated January 22, 1991)

In any service operated by any line there are practical restrictions in terms of coverage of ports.. There is no shipping line that can cover all ports around the world on a single service and therefore the services are segregated into trade lanes..

Why does cargo need to be transshipped..??

Lets say there is a liner service that connects Durban to Far East with Singapore, Hong Kong, Port Kelang being the ports of call on the voyage from South Africa to Far East.. Lets call this vessel A..Lets say that there is a shipment from Durban in South Africa to Manila in Philippines.. Since this vessel A does not call Manila as part of its rotation/service, the container(s) will need to be taken off at one of the ports that vessel A calls.. Lets assume that this port is Singapore.. These container(s) will be off-loaded at Singapore and then loaded onto another vessel that operates on a route that connects Singapore to Manila..Lets call this vessel B..

Example of Trade lanes Example : South Africa to South East Asia, South Africa to

Europe, South Africa to USA, South East Asia to Far East,

Far East to USA, USA to Europe etc..

So the container that left Durban on vessel A will reach Manila on vessel B via transshipment at Singapore.. The bill of lading that the customer has been issued will show Vessel A, but the arrival notification that the consignee in Manila receives will show Vessel B..

Oldendorff Carriers Trinidad Ltd, a 72-year-old German family-owned transshipment company.

Coal unloading With Transshipper "ISKEN" at Iskenderun Bay, Turkey.

When?1. When the Inward Foreign Manifest clearly states that the cargo is destined for a

local port other than the port of discharge

2. A supplementary or additional Manifest is submitted within 24 hours from the

time the carrying vessel is boarded showing that a particular cargo is destined for

a local port other than the port of discharge

3. Section 1005

4. importer files a constructive warehousing entry for immediate transportation

under bond

PERMIT

SHIPSIDE

It is a written authority to discharged cargoes to shipside unto

lighter/barge as per order of the Collector of Customs (Attention:

Deputy Collector for Operations). The permit shall be forwarded

directly to the Customs Inspector onboard the carrying vessel.

Passengers Boarded from

Lighters

Vessel crossing San Francisco Bay accompanied by lighter.

Several conditions are imposed in this permit such as :

1. That cargo discharged from vessel to lighter / barge shall be under guarded continuously.2. That the loaded lighter/ barge shall be towed to the designated barge pool area pursuant to CMO no. 36-83.3. That the release of cargo shall be allowed only upon presentation of duly approved BOC Import Entry and Internal Revenue Declaration.

4. That the cargoes unloaded from the vessel to the lighter/ barge must tally with the cargoes mentioned in this Permit and Inward Foreign Manifest as to the descriptions, weight and quantity.

The Customs Inspector assigned on a vessel who allows the discharge of cargoes at shipside shall comply strictly with the conditions and/or requirements stated in the shipside permit. The Customs Inspector must issued a Boat note (BOC Permit No. 36) indicating the following information, to wit:

1. Name of vessel, date of arrival and Registry Numbers2. Name of lighter/barge3. Name of Broker and/or Consignee4. Shipside Permit numbers5. Marks and Numbers

6. Kinds and description of cargo7. Time and date the lighter/barge left the vessel8. Names and signatures of Customs Inspector, Customs Guard(s) in charge of the lighter.