Non-vessel operating common carrier
The term NVOCC ( non-vessel operating common carrier ) or ship-booking agent , also known as shipowner without a ship for short , describes a transport company who transports goods by sea in his own name without having his own shipping space.
basis
NVOCC confronts his client as a carrier and provides its own bills of lading (Engl. Bills of lading ) from. For the actual transport, the NVOCC books a carrier's hold and sells it in smaller parts to its customers. The NVOCC is therefore the charterer in relation to this actual carrier .
Shipowners without a ship in practice
Most NVOCCs buy up space quotas from certain shipping companies months or years in advance and then sell them to their customers. Here, the NVOCC is as groupage forwarding active and very obtained mostly good Price reductions in transit and can thus calculate its prices other than such. B. a freight forwarder .
