What is a Certificate of Origin?

What is a Certificate of Origin?

A Certificate of Origin (COO) is a document that is required by certain foreign countries for tariff purposes, certifying the country of origin of specified goods.

Click here to download a fillable Microsoft Excel version of a General Certificate of Origin.

Why do I need a Certificate of Origin?

The appropriate government agency responsible for monitoring and assessing duties on imported products in virtually all countries requires a Certificate of Origin (COO) to determine what duty or tariff, if any, should be assessed on the product or products being imported. The U.S. has trade agreements with many foreign countries, and under the terms of many of these agreements, American products receive lower tariff rates or are not subject to a tariff. The foreign customs office verifies whether a product qualifies for preferential duty rates based on the information on the Certificate of Origin that accompanies the documentation associated with the shipment. Also, some countries have banned certain products from countries that have been caught dumping. The COO helps prove that the product is allowed into that particular country.

A Certificate of Origin is usually prepared by the exporter or the freight forwarder and notarized and

Packing List Example

Shipping Declaration Form

Shipping Declaration Example Form

Typss/specifications/dimensions of containers

All about Bill of Ladings (examples /terms..etc.,)

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1. DEFINITIONS:

"OCEAN WIDE LOGISTICS INC." is the name of the carrier, as specified at the bottom.
"Carriage" means the whole or any part of the operations and services undertaken by the Carrier in respect of the Goods covered by this Bill of Lading.
"Carrier" means OCEAN WIDE LOGISTICS INC.
"COGSA" means the U.S. Carriage of Goods by Sea Act 1936 as amended.
"Container" includes any container (including an open top Container) flat rack, platform trailer, transportable tank, pallet, or any other device used for the transportation of goods.
"Goods" means the cargo accepted from the Shipper and includes any Container not supplied by or on behalf of the carrier.

"Freight" includes all charges payable to the Carrier in accordance with the applicable Tariff and this Bill of Lading including but not limited to demurrage, detention costs and all expenses and monetary obligations, duties, taxes and dues, incurred by the Carrier and payable by the Merchant.
"Hague Rules" means the provisions of the International Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules relating to Bills of Lading signed at Brussels on 25 August 1924, without the amendments by the Protocol signed at Brussels on 23 February 1968.

"Hague-Visby Rules" means the provisions of the International Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules relating to Bills of Lading, signed at Brussels on 25th August, 1924 and includes the amendments by the Protocol signed at Brussels on 23rd February, 1968, but only if such amendments are compulsorily applicable to this Bill of Lading.
"Holder" means any person for the time being in lawful possession of this Bill of Lading to whom the property in the Goods has passed on or by reason of the consignment of this Bill of Lading or otherwise.

"Merchant" includes the Consignor, Shipper, Holder, Consignee, the receiver of the Goods, any person, including any Corporation or other legal entity, owning or entitled to the possession of the Goods or this Bill of Lading and anyone acting on behalf of such person.
"Package" Where a Container is loaded with more than one package or unit, the packages or other shipping units enumerated on the reverse hereof as packed in such Container and entered in the box on the reverse side hereof entitled Total No. of Containers or Packages received by Carrier are each deemed a Package.

"Person" includes an individual, corporation or other legal entity
"Servants or Agents" includes the Master, Officer and crew of the vessel, owners and operators of vessels (other than the Carrier), underlying carriers (including ocean common carriers with whom OCEAN WIDE LOGISTICS INC. has contracted for the physical transportation of the goods), sub-contractors, stevedores, terminal and groupage operators, road and rail transport operators and any independent contractors employed by the Carrier in the performance of the Carriage.
"Shipper" includes the person entering into this contract of carriage with the Carrier and for whose account the Goods are shipped.

“The Internal Law of a State" shall be deemed to exclude all principles of private international law applied by such state.
"US Carriage" means carriage to, from or through any port of the United States of America.
"Vessel" means any waterborne craft used in the Carriage under this bill of lading including, but not limited to ocean vessels, feeder vessels and inland water vessels whether named in the bill of lading or substituted vessels.

2. CARRIER'S TARIFF
The terms of the carrier's applicable Tariff are incorporated herein. Particular attention is drawn to the

Paris and Tokyo MoUs Concentrated Inspection Campaign (CIC) on Crew Familiarization for Enclosed Space Entry

The Maritime Authorities of Paris and Tokyo Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) on Port State
Control have announced a joint Concentrated Inspection Campaign (CIC) on Crew Familiarization
for Enclosed Space Entry.

This inspection campaign will be held for three months, commencing from September 01, 2015 to
November 30, 2015. The ship’s procedure and measures in place with respect to enclosed space
will be checked in detail for compliance with the requirements of SOLAS. This concentrated
inspection campaign will be conducted during regular Port State Control Inspections.

The Port State Control Officers (PSCOs) will use a list of ten (10) selected questions to establish
that crew members with enclosed space duties are familiar with relevant equipment and have
received training to carry out their duties and identify and understand the hazards associated with
entry into enclosed spaces. Moreover, there are questions aiming to gather information about the
existence of measures to test the atmosphere of an enclosed space to confirm it is safe to enter and
remains safe whilst persons are within the space. PSCOs will use the questionnaire attached to this
notification.

When deficiencies are found, actions by the port State may vary from recording a deficiency and
instructing the master to rectify it within a certain period of time to detaining the ship until serious
deficiencies have been rectified. In the case of detention, this will be published in the monthly
detention list of the Paris and Tokyo MoU web sites.

As per the press release, it is expected that jointly the Paris & Tokyo MoUs will carry out
approximately 10,000 CIC

Bunker prices indication dated 18.02.2014

** Prices are in USD

MGO	Ifo 180	Ifo 380	port
578.50	344.00	325.00	Rotterdam
579.00	386.50	369.50	Singapore
773.00	401.00	368.50	Fujairah
579.50	387.50	376.00	Hong Kong
635.50	387.50	363.00	New York
773.00	367.50	344.00	Rio de Janeiro
603.00	372.50	346.00	Piraeus
620.50	381.50	342.50	Gibraltar

Unified Interpretation of the Appendix to the SOLAS Convention regarding the records of equipment

The Maritime Safety
Committee, at its ninetyfourth
session approved
a unified interpretation of
SOLAS regarding the
records of equipment
concerning nautical
charts and ECDIS.
The Maritime Safety Committee ninety-fourth session was held in London on 17 to 21
November 2014. The Sub-Committee of the MSC has issued a circular approving a unified
interpretation on the Appendix of the SOLAS Convention regarding the records of equipment
concerning nautical chart and ECDIS. More specifically, the circular includes a unified
interpretation in completion of items 2.1 and 2.2 of part 3 of the Form E as well as items 2.1 and
2.2 of Part 5 of Forms P and C.
What SOLAS Regulation V/19.2.1.4 requires?

Unified Interpretation of SOLAS Regulation V/23.3.3

The Maritime Safety

Committee, at its ninetyfourth

session approved

a unified interpretation of

SOLAS Regulation

V/23.3.3 on pilot transfer

arrangements. 

Through MSC.308(88), amendments have been adopted to SOLAS Regulation V/23 requiring

pilot ladders on all ships (new and existing) to be clearly identified, new equipment and

arrangements for pilot ladders to be certified by the manufacturer and it has been prohibited to

use mechanical pilot hoists.

The Maritime Safety Committee, at its ninety-fourth session held in London on 17 to 21

November 2014 approved a unified interpretation of SOLAS Regulation V/23.3.3 as prepared by

the Sub-Committee on Navigation, Communications and Search and Rescue (NCSR), at its first

session.

What SOLAS Regulation V/23.3.3 requires?

The regulation states:

“Safe and convenient access to, and egress from, the ship shall be provided by either:

.1 a pilot ladder requiring a climb of not less than 1.5 m and not more than 9 m above the

surface of the water so positioned and secured that:

.1.4 the single length of pilot ladder is capable of reaching the water from the point

of access to, or egress from, the ship and due allowance is made for all

conditions of loading and trim of the ship, and for an adverse list of 15O; the

securing strong point, shackles and securing ropes shall be at least as strong

as the side ropes; or

.2 an accommodation ladder in conjunction with the pilot ladder (i.e. a combination

arrangement), or other equally safe and convenient means, whenever the distance

from the surface of the water to the point of access to the ship is more than 9 m.”

What is the interpretation of SOLAS Regulation V/23.3.3?

Subparagraphs 1 and 2 of SOLAS regulation V/23.3.3 address two different and distinct

arrangements – the former when only a pilot ladder is provided; the latter when a combined

arrangement of "an accommodation ladder used in conjunction with the pilot ladder" is provided.

 SOLAS regulation V/23.3.3.1 limits the climb to not more than 9 m on a single ladder.

If only a pilot ladder is to be used, the maximum height of 9 m from the "safe and

convenient access to, and egress from, the ship" to the surface of the water is to

include consideration of an adverse list of 15°.

 SOLAS regulation V/23.3.3.2 and section 3 of resolution A.1045(27) applies to a

combined arrangement of "an accommodation ladder used in conjunction with the pilot

ladder" for "Safe and convenient access to, and egress from, the ship" for which a 15°

list requirement does not apply. 

URGENT Re: WARNING for ships approaching MISURATA / LIBYA

URGENT



Re: WARNING for ships approaching MISURATA / LIBYA



We have just received the following information via  Lloyd’s broker in London, which is highly relevant should you have any vessels currently in or proceeding to Libyan waters and most specifically proceeding to/from Misurata.



“The Libyan Air Force, of the only internationally recognised government in Libya, threatened yesterday to strike with its jets at any ships approaching the port of the city of Misrata - Libya Herald
In a stern warning reported by LANA, the Commander of the Air Force, Brigadier Saqr Al-Jaroushi, said that ‘’any vessel or cargo ship approaching the port of Misrata would be targeted directly and immediately’’ as of Friday 9 January.
The warning follows the announcement on Monday that the LNA has received 4 new Russian-made Sukhoi SU-27 fighter jets reportedly capable of covering a distance of 3,530 km with a top speed of 2,500 kmh. In comparison, commercial passenger flights from Tripoli to Benghazi, for example, take about an hour to cover the distance.
Meanwhile, in a further development, the LNA Air Force yesterday threatened to shoot down any Sudanese or Turkish aircraft, military or civilian, that enters Libyan airspace. Turkish airline flights to Libya have been, and are still suspended until further notice.
The warning by the LNA Air Force to strike at any shipping approaching the port of Misrata comes also days after the LNA Air Force had on Sunday struck a Greek-operated oil tanker approaching Derna port in which a Greek and a Romanian were killed.”