Different types of Bill of Lading Posted on 06 April 2023 Category : Bill of Lading The information provided here is part of Online export import training guide Different types of Bill of Lading: What are the various types of Bill of Lading? The various types of bill of lading are given below. The details articles about each type of Bill of Lading is written in separate article. The readers may go through each article to have a good knowledge about Types of Bill of Lading and its functions. I hope, you will have a sound knowledge about types of Bill of Lading after reading those articles. Please find below various types of Bill of Lading: Ocean Bill of Lading: If a consignment is transported by sea, nationally or internationally Ocean Bill of Lading is used. Ocean Bill of Lading is a common term used in shipping. Read More here http://howtoexportimport.com/When-can-an-exporter-release-bill-of-lading-from-s-44.aspx Inland Bill of Lading: Inland Bill of Lading is the bill of lading which allows the shipping carrier to ship cargo, by road or rail, across domestic land, but not over seas. Multimodal/Combined Transport Bill of Lading: This is a type of Through Bill of Lading that involves a minimum of two different modes of transport, land or ocean. The modes of transportation can be anything from freight boat to air. Read more http://howtoexportimport.com/What-is-Combined-Bill-of-Lading-50.aspx Direct Bill of Lading: Direct Bill of Lading is used when you know the same vessel that picked up the cargo will deliver it to its final destination. Clean Bill of Lading: If a consignment with no damage on packages apparently, the carrier issues a Bill of lading called Clean Bill of Lading. Read more: http://howtoexportimport.com/Clean-On-board-Bill-of-Lading-Vs-Shipped-On-board--544.aspx Clean On Board Bill of Lading: A consignment with no damage on packages apparently and if such consignment gone on board the vessel, a Clean On Board Bill of Lading is issued by carrier of goods. Read more http://howtoexportimport.com/What-is-Clean-on-board-Bill-of-Lading-48.aspx Unclean Bill of Lading/Claused bill of lading/foul bill of lading/Dirty Bill of Lading/Soiled Bill of Lading. If owner of ship or his agent does not agree with one or more of the statements mentioned in the bill of lading, he add the said clause or clauses on the bill of lading. This bill of lading is called unclean bill of lading, claused bill of lading or foul bill of lading. Read more http://howtoexportimport.com/Unclean-Bill-of-Lading-Claused-bill-of-lading-foul-49.aspx Shipped On Board Bill of Lading: A Shipped On Board Bill of Lading is issued when the cargo arrives at the port in good, expected condition from the shipping carrier and is then loaded onto the cargo ship for transport over seas. Read more http://howtoexportimport.com/Clean-On-board-Bill-of-Lading-Vs-Shipped-On-board--544.aspx Received Bill of Lading: Received for shipment’ bill of lading can be issued to shipper immediately up on receipt of goods by the carrier after necessary export customs clearance procedures of exporting country. Read More http://howtoexportimport.com/Is-Received-for-shipment-Bill-of-Lading-sufficient-47.aspx Through Bill of Lading: Under a Through Bill of Lading, the shipping carrier can pass the cargo through several different modes of transportation and/or several different distribution centers. This Bill of Lading needs to include an Inland Bill of Lading and/or an Ocean Bill of Landing depending on its final destination. Stale Bill of Lading: A Bill of Lading can be treated as ‘Stale’ , if it is presented long after sailing of vessel pertaining to a shipmnet at port of loading. Such presentation of Bill of Lading could be with the Supplier’s Bank, Discounting Bank, Negotiating Bank, Buyer’s Bank or buyer. The term ‘Stale Bill of Lading’ is also used when a bill of lading is presented with a bank after expiry date of credit. Read more http://howtoexportimport.com/STALE-BILL-OF-LADING-%E2%80%93-What-does-it-mean--552.aspx Straight Bill of Lading: Straight Bill of Lading is also known as Consignment Bill of Lading. Straight Bill of Lading is a non negotiable Bill of Lading where in no payment is required against the goods. The carrier of goods release cargo to consignee on production of identity of consignee at port of final destination. To Order Bill of Lading: Read more http://howtoexportimport.com/Consignee-To-Order-in-Bill-of-Lading-281.aspx Transshipment bill of lading: Read more http://howtoexportimport.com/How-transshipment-bill-of-lading-works--51.aspx Charter Party Bill of Lading: Read more http://howtoexportimport.com/What-is-charter-party-bill-of-lading--52.aspx House Bill of Lading: Read more http://howtoexportimport.com/What-is-House-BL-House-Bill-of-Lading-108.aspx Master Bill of Lading: Read more http://howtoexportimport.com/Difference-between-MBL-and-HBL-How-does-MBL-work-a-278.aspx Express Release Bill of Lading: Read more http://howtoexportimport.com/What-is-Express-Release-Bill-of-Lading-73.aspx I hope, the above links help you to know in detail about different types of Bill of Lading. Would you like to add more information about different types of Bill of Lading? Share below your experience about different types of bill of lading. Comment below your thoughts about this article - Different types of bill of lading used in international business. The above information is a part of Import Export course online STALE BILL OF LADING What does it mean? Difference between Clean On Board Bill of Lading and Shipped On Board Bill of Lading. Can Original Bill of lading be surrendered under DP terms of payment Can Original Bill of lading be surrendered under LC at sight Can Bill of Lading be surrendered on LC terms How to obtain a duplicate BL, if original bill of lading lost? Can a Bill of Lading be consigned to a customs broker? Can I get bill of lading before loading cargo Can two consignments meant for one buyer be shipped together under one Bill of Lading? Consignee To Order in Bill of Lading How to avoid delay in receiving OBL Original Bill of Lading? Amendment of Bill of Lading How to amend shipper details in Bill of Lading?. How to surrender HBL House Bill of Lading Surrender of Bill of Lading Some facts . How does Bill of Lading work in Sight LC. How does Bill of Lading work in DP payment terms? Can a Bill of Lading (BL) be predated for LC negotiation? What is the earliest date can be mentioned on Bill of Lading. Can BL date and let export date be same day? Can shipping line predate Bill of Lading,What is the earliest date can be mentioned on Bill of Lading. What is Said to weigh in Bill of Lading What is Shipper Load, stow and count in Bill of Lading What is said to contain in Bill of Lading. Can an importer take delivery of goods without original bill of lading? What is House BL House Bill of Lading Can Bill of Lading (BL) be before date of Certificate of origin GSP? What is Express Release Bill of Lading? Can Bill of Lading be surrendered at port of loading? Transferability of Bill of Lading What is charter party bill of lading ? How transshipment bill of lading works? What is Combined Bill of Lading / Multi model Bill of Lading Unclean Bill of Lading/Claused bill of lading/foul bill of lading/Dirty Bill of Lading What is Clean on board Bill of Lading? Is received for shipment Bill of Lading sufficient for LC negotiation? Different types of Bill of Lading 3 Reasons under Importance of bill of lading in international trade When can an exporter get bill of lading from shipping company? Other information about Export import tutorial What is charter party bill of lading? How transshipment bill of lading works? What is Combined Bill of Lading Difference between BRC and FIRC Unclean Bill of Lading Claused bill of lading foul bill of lading What is House BL Excise and Customs - Click here to read complete notification under Budget 2014 How to get Export Orders? How to settle dispute in Exports and Imports? 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Comments admin: On 21 February 2013 Hi Preety Verma, Please read my article 'Transferability of Bill of Lading' http://www.howtoexportimport.com/Transferability-of-Bill-of-Lading-71.aspx BALU: On 18 September 2013 In shipments against LC, why should the issueing bank be mentioned on the Waybill as consignee with "CONSIGNED TO THE ORDER OF BANK ...." surendran: On 09 October 2013 Hi Balu, Pl read article http://howtoexportimport.com/Consignee-To-Order-in-Bill-of-Lading-281.aspx Kannan: On 10 February 2014 What is the difference between Tanker bill of Lading and Bill of Lading Djay: On 26 February 2014 do you have any knowledge of freight bl??? sarfraz ahmad: On 21 March 2014 i am a management student, you guys doing a great job. i can say;) since i am studying international nusinesa, i found every article very informative.. thanks .... is there any possibility to do my summer interns with you guys.... please write me back... thanks again RANJAN THAKUR : On 31 October 2014 DEAR SIR PLEASE QUESTION ON KINDS OF OCEAN MASTER BILL OF LEADING & DEFRANCE Capt.R.K.Sinha: On 08 February 2015 Which type of Bill of Loading,a Ship Master keeps on board ? Chintan Vora : On 16 February 2015 I am working with one shipping company in Mumbai as an sales executive. I am dealing with one shipper presently I did one his shipment to be Frank with you he is doing issue in payment terms he takes credit and latter on he does bt make the payment to forwarding company. As I had deal with him for 2 shipments. My earlier shipments payment is also still outstanding. As of this shipment our company had hold his all the documents I.e. (OB/L , shipping bills, ep copy, & all others) We had Nw asked him to make the all payment NEFT and said then only will release the B/L. Nw in this stage for my safe side I just want to clear if his consignee approch to shipping line at destination (Africa) for Duplicate bill of lading can he get the same and release the container ?? Else plss request you give me some safe options so that I recover my payment in my company's interests. Admin: On 16 February 2015 Chintan Vora, Your experience is common to some of the freight forwarders, as they have no option to get their payment, but hold shipment without releasing BL or holding ORIGINAL BILL OF LAIDNG without sending to destination after releasing from main shipping carrier. Naveen: On 17 February 2015 I have a doubt regarding a Seaway Bill Release of the shipment by a shipping line to the consignee.The Seaway BL of the shipping line has a clause under it saying ** Proof Reading Copy – Not useable for Cargo Delivery ** Consignee has destination chopped on this copy & submitted to the shipping line & delivered the container to the consignee.Please confirm is shipping line right on its part to release the cargo to the consignee. Admin: On 17 February 2015 Hi Naveen, As per my knowledge, the cargo can be delivered to consignee/importer only after obtaining ORIGINAL BILL OF LADING OBL SURRENDER MESSAGE FROM LOAD PORT OF CARRIER unless EXPRESS RELEASE / SEA WAY BILL is released at loading port. FRANK OTENDA: On 13 June 2015 Explain the purpose of IMO (international maritime dangerous code) and the details found within the dangerous goods shipping note also clearly identfy the different clauses FAWAD MUKHTAR: On 27 June 2015 what is tanker bill of lading Sathish: On 02 July 2015 Need many informations abt the export & import Sireesh K : On 06 July 2015 I am planning to start a CHA/Freight Forwarding at my place, Hindupur, I have some queries related to ocean & air freight. It will be great, if you can shed some light on my queries. Kumaran : On 14 October 2015 Gas Turbine (GT) Make – Siemens, Model - Allison 501 KB5 is used as prime mover for power generation at Captive Power Plant of ONGC Ltd., Sivasagar, Assam, India. We have 3 nos of GT Allison 501 KB5, which needs to be sent for overhaul to OEM works at Houston, USA. The GTs were earlier overhauled in India only by authorized service center. However due to expiry of licence, service center is no more authorized to carry out these overhauls These GTs were initially imported in Year 1989 from USA. We have copies of Bills of entry of same. While inquiring about the export procedures, we came to know that copy of 1. Bill of Entry 2. Bill of Lading 3. Invoice for initial / original import (year 1989) is required for customs clearance for export and re-import. Since GTs are more than 25 years old, records from the same time is not available. As of now we dont have any other document except Bills of Entry. Kumaran : On 14 October 2015 Gas Turbine (GT) Make – Siemens, Model - Allison 501 KB5 is used as prime mover for power generation at Captive Power Plant of ONGC Ltd., Sivasagar, Assam, India. We have 3 nos of GT Allison 501 KB5, which needs to be sent for overhaul to OEM works at Houston, USA. The GTs were earlier overhauled in India only by authorized service center. However due to expiry of licence, service center is no more authorized to carry out these overhauls These GTs were initially imported in Year 1989 from USA. We have copies of Bills of entry of same. While inquiring about the export procedures, we came to know that copy of 1. Bill of Entry 2. Bill of Lading 3. Invoice for initial / original import (year 1989) is required for customs clearance for export and re-import. Since GTs are more than 25 years old, records from the same time is not available. As of now we dont have any other document except Bills of Entry. Mukesh Rathi : On 14 October 2015 I checked your site, its very useful... I have below quires , request if you can give your opinion.. 1. Many exporter do not mention actual buyer name in shipping bill and mention as dummy/ agent name being they do not want to disclose the buyer name to custom department or in many cases this is due to third party involvement ... William Kwame Dorgbetor : On 18 April 2016 How can you get me a financier who will fund the purchase of sugar am going to supply my customers and pay within 60days against the B/L . Am supplying 50,000mt per month x 12 months sir.I will be get a profit of $4million per shipment in which am ready to share with the financier at 50/50 sir. Will this be possible..? Pradeepa T: On 18 April 2016 Every month we are sending export to Japan and other countries . But we have head office in Chennai . In Karnataka Sales tax we have upload the details every month in VAT -100. How to get bill of lading number in internet or particular site .Kindly help on this. Chakka Ramesh Gupta : On 18 April 2016 I am Interested to learn different aspects of Import & Export business to become an Import & Exporter.I need assistance to gain knowledge of Import and Export business. Chakka Ramesh Gupta : On 18 April 2016 I am Interested to learn different aspects of Import & Export business to become an Import & Exporter.I need assistance to gain knowledge of Import and Export business. Jacob Ebanezer : On 20 April 2016 We are into export business of engineering parts. We manufacture the parts in-house and in some cases buy from suppliers. But with the current exposure of exports data available in the market, many intruders like traders/competitors end up taking away our hard earned business. In the last 13 year of business, I have never been involved in such practises, nor I have exported to any customers outside India who are already buying from INDIA. I have always brought new users to India and thereby contributed my portion to bring more customers / foreign currency to India.I would like to receive some advice with your expertise to safeguard our business. Particularly in hiding the name of customer in shipping bills, bill of lading, etc. I heard that invoicing to the customer's bank and delivering the shipment to customer's premise is the safest way Kiran Ajmera : On 08 April 2017 Saw one of your inputs on the net regarding switch bill of lading. Whilst it is clear that you can switch bill of lading if you are in a 3rd country (not origin nor destination), I would like to know if it is possible to switch bill of lading within the same country. For example, shipment from China ABC to India ABC as original bill of lading. Now, can India ABC switch bill of lading to India XYZ as new consignee? Second, it is possible then for India ABC to raise USD invoice rather that in INR? Presume the second one is more difficult. Vivek Maheshwari: On 11 April 2020 My query is can express bill if lading be cancelled after issue MBEMPEH AROUNA: On 12 August 2021 Hello, Please is there someone to provide me with course details on International advance diploma provided by CILT. All comment are highly welcome. andre: On 05 July 2022 i would like to introduc, from Freight Forwading - Indonesia, I would like to know about a regulation that state FORBIDDEN TO USE MORE THAN ONE NOTIFY PARTY ON BILL of LADING We Got inform from MSC shipping Lines, there is a regulation about Notify or Multy Notify to Chittagong Port.. Please explain it. Thank you verymuch.. cause we face trouble about our shipment. ANDRE rahul: On 20 July 2022 I always read your “how to Import Export online”. I was reading about dirty BL, Foul BL, Uncleaned BL.But generally I issue RFS BL, SOB BL and sometime Seaway BL.So my question is, DO we issue Dirty BL or Foul BL to customer?