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Unit 8: Transportation

5. Shipping Order Notes
6. Mate’s Receipt
7. Shipping Bill
8. Port Trust Document

9. Marine Insurance
10. Declaration Form
11. Marine Insurance Certificate
12. Airway Bill

13. Post Parcel Receipt
14. Bill of Exchange
15. Bill of Entry
Each of these documents can be reproduced from the same master by using the relevant mask.
Reproduced signatures on individual documents may in deep present some problem. Until an
agreement is reached among all concerned as to their acceptability it would be necessary to
mask the signature column also on the master and to sign the individual documents manually.
Besides, as all the copies of the reproduced documents, particularly where the spirit duplicator
is used, will have the same impression, it will be difficult to distinguish the original from the
copies of the document. This is however, not a serious problem and can be solved by a universal
understanding that unless ‘Copy’ is marked, the document will be treated as original. It is no
doubt convenient to give the dates on the documents in the numeric way. In doing so, however,
the exporter should ensure that such dates would be interpreted abroad in the same way as they
interpret them.

Notes To avoid ambiguity, it would be better to express the date of the month in two
figures, followed by the name of the month in three letters and the year in four figures.

Self Assessment

State whether the following statements are true or false:
10. Government transportation regulation can be grouped into four categories.
11. Regulation of business practices is the oldest form of government control.

12. Import documentation is commonly considered to be the most complex and difficult part
of overseas marketing.

8.5 Transport Structure

The freight transportation structure consists of the rights-of-way, vehicles, and carriers that
operate within five basic transportation modes. A mode identifies a basic transportation method
or form. The five basic transportation modes are rail, highway, water, pipeline, and air. The
relative importance of each transportation mode in the United States is measured in terms of
system mileage, traffic volume, revenue, and nature of freight transported.

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