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cargo

noun baggage, boatload, bulk, capacity, cartload, charge, commodities, consignment, conveyance, freight, freightage, furnishings, goods, haul, impedimenta, lading, lading of a ship, load, luggage, merchandise, onus, pack, payload, produce, shipload, shipment, shipping, stock, tonnage, transfer, truckload, vanload, ware, wares
Associated concepts: carriers, delivery contract, hot cargo, risk of loss of cargo

cargo

goods and merchandise, other than the personal luggage of passengers, carried by a ship or aircraft.

CARGO, mar. law. The entire load of a ship or other vessel. Abb. on Sh. Index, h.t.; 1 Dall. 197; Merl. Rep. h.t.; 2 Gill & John. 136. This term is usually applied to goods only, and does not include human beings. 1 Phill. Ins. 185; 4 Pick. 429. But in a more extensive and less technical sense, it includes persons; thus we say a cargo of emigrants. See 7 Mann. Gr. 729, 744.

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In-Land Transit Risks of Cargoes are covered under Road/Rail Cargo Clauses (A) or Road/Rail Cargo Clauses (B) or Road/Rail Strikes Clauses (Cargo), but in this write-up, I shall endeavour to opine about my comprehension of the Road/Rail Cargo Cargo Clauses (A).

In case of FCL Containers, Cargoes stuffed therein are, usually, forwarded to their destinations within the same Originally-sealed Containers and the Insurers' Marine Cargo Insurance Policy is also Endorsed with Road/Rail Cargo Clauses (A) which would pertain to the In-Land Transit Risks of the same Consignment.

But certain Cargoes are forwarded either stuffed in LCL Containers or Laden on Open-bedded and /or in High-wall Trucks which are covered vide the In-Land-Transit Insurance Policy, Endorsed with Road/Rail Cargo Clauses (A) or (B).

ROAD/RAIL CARGO CLAUSES (A) - CERTAIN IMPLICATIONS

"We continue to search for and attract new cargoes by continuing to strengthen our cargo diversification ability and experience.

Maximizing your transportation dollar: challenges and solutions for the global marketplace

The company's specialty equipment allows great flexibility to carry cargoes from containerized to large earthmoving and hydroelectric units.

Seaboard recently opened an office in Mexico City that focuses on northbound cargoes from the west coast of South America.

Logistic solutions: speed to market becomes a critical factor

Intermarine is a provider of worldwide ocean transport for breakbulk specialized project and heavy-lift cargoes.