Clarification

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Clarify is a nautical expression and means something like "make clear". In maritime shipping, clarification is the fulfillment of all duties that arise for the ship (or boat ) and the cargo on arrival or departure from a port at the port authorities, offices or customs . This includes registering or de-registering (declaring in or clearing out) at the authorities and offices, completing all formalities with regard to the crew, passengers, ship and cargo for the purpose of information and control, coordinating suppliers and customers, and transmitting statistical data Data as well as the settlement of all fees, taxes and duties, the creation of the freight papers and the cargo documentation.

Clearing agent

The clearing of a seagoing vessel in the port is carried out by the "clearing agent". In Germany, the K. is also referred to as " ship broker " in German, whereby a clearer is always a ship broker, but a ship broker can also work in other areas than in clearing, so this designation is imprecise. The clearing agent works either on behalf of the shipowner (" owners agent ") or the charterers agent .

His fee is known as the agency fee .

A clearing agent is usually trained as a shipping agent . But there are also lateral entrants, especially from the area of nautical officers or from the professional field of freight forwarding and logistics services . The clearing operator is expected to have extensive knowledge of the area being traveled (drafts, controls, berths) as well as very good contacts in the port industry and to authorities and bodies such as the pilot associations . In a broader sense, the clearing agent is the shipowner's "extended arm" in the port of call.

Historical

The job of a port or clearing agent is a very old profession. The deregistration with the local creditors took place historically by setting the Blue Peter 24 hours before the anchor.

See also

literature

  • K. Schwitalla, U. Scharnow: Lexicon of seafaring . 5th edition. transpress VEB Verlag for Transport, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-344-00190-6 .
  • U. Scharnow: seamanship 3rd ship and maneuvers . 3. Edition. transpress Verlag, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-344-00151-5 .
  • Günther Malchow, Dieter Schulze: Freight traffic over sea. A learning book for shipping merchants. Central Association Dt. Ship broker; Hamburg: Association of German Shipowners, 1993, ISBN 3-923603-00-2

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