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A character string used as an abbreviated means of recording or identifying information (Source: Standard electronic reporting CCR version 1.2/2006)
The authority, who is made responsible for safety, in whole or in part, by government, including environmental friendliness and efficiency of vessel traffic. The competent authority usually has the tasks of planning, arranging funding and of commissioning of RIS (Source: Standard Tracking and Tracing EU/415/2007)
The person who navigates the vessel according to voyage plan instructions of the shipmaster (Source: Standard Tracking and Tracing EU/415/2007)
The party such as mentioned in the transport document by whom goods, cargo or continers are to be received (Source: Standard Tracking and Tracing)
The merchant (person, by whom, in whose name or on whose behalf a contract of carriage of goods has been concluded with a carrier or any party by whom, in whose name or on whose behalf the goods are actually deliverd to the carrier in relation th the contract of carriage (Source: Standard Tracking and Tracing EU/415/2007)
Synonyms: Cargo shipper or senderThe department of the Civil Service that deals with levying of duties and taxes on imported goods from foreign countries and the control over the export and import of goods e.g. allowed quota prohibited goods (Source: Standard Tracking and Tracing EU/415/2007)