Effective	06SEP2002
Filed	06SEP2002
Filing Codes	I

The descriptive words or titles preceding each numbered
clause of this bill of lading are inserted for
convenience and identification only and are not part of
nor in any way the provisions of this bill of lading.

Received from the shipper, the goods or packages said to
contain goods herein mentioned, in apparent good order
and condition, except as otherwise indicated herein, to
be transported to the port of discharge named herein
and/or such other port or place as authorized or
permitted hereby, or so near thereunto as the ship can
get, lie and leave always in safety and afloat under all
conditions of tide, water and weather, and there to be
delivered to consignee or on-carrier on payment of all
charges due thereon.

The receipt, custody, carriage, delivery and
transshipping of the goods are subject to the terms
appearing on the face and back hereof, which shall govern
the relations, whatsoever they may be, between shipper,
consignee, carrier and ship in every contingency,
wheresoever and whensoever occurring and whether the
carrier be acting as such or as bailee, and also in the
event of, or during deviation, or of conversion of the
goods.  The terms hereof shall not be deemed waived by
the carrier except by written waiver, signed by a duly
authorized agent of the carrier.

1. DEFINITIONS - In this bill of lading the words "ship"
shall include any substituted vessel, and any vessel,
craft or other means of conveyance whatsoever owned,
chartered, operated or controlled and used by the
carrier in the performance of this contract; "carrier"
shall, except in the provision against waiver of the
provisions hereof, include the ship as defined herein,
her owner, operator and demise charterer, and also any
time charterer or person to the extent bound by this bill
of lading, whether acting as carrier or bailee; "shipper"
shall include the person named as such in this bill of
lading and the person for whose account the goods are
shipped; "consignee" shall include this holder of this
bill of lading properly endorsed, or the person who owns
or is entitled to or receives delivery of the goods;
"person" shall include an individual corporation,
partnership and any other entity; "live animals" shall
include birds, reptiles, fish and all animate things
other than human beings; "charges" shall include freight
and all expenses, costs, indemnities, damages and money
obligations whatsoever payable by, or chargeable to, or
for account of the goods, shipper or consignee or any of
them, regardless of whether sustained, incurred or paid
by the carrier in the first instance; "at the risk and
expense of the goods" mean, in addition, at the risk and
expense of the shipper and consignee; "loss or damage"
shall include, in addition to physical loss of or damage
to the goods, any loss or damage whatsoever sustained by
the shipper or consignee in connection with the goods,
including that by reason of delay, non-delivery,
misdelivery, deviation or conversion; "tranship" and/or
"forward" shall mean and refer to transportation by rail,
water, land or air or by two or more of such means and
whether operated by the carrier or others or whether
under another flag; and "government" and "authorities"
shall each include the United Nations and any similar
international organization, and also persons having or
purporting to exercise power, control or other functions
of a governmental or military nature whether in the name
of a sovereign state or of a political subdivision
thereof, whether de jure or de facto.

2. CLAUSE PARAMOUNT - This bill of lading shall have
effect subject to the provisions of the Carriage of Goods
by Sea Act of the United States, approved April 16, 1936,
and which is deemed to be incorporated herein (except as
otherwise specifically provided for herein) and nothing
herein contained is to be deemed a surrender by the
carrier of any of its rights, immunities, exemptions or
liberties or an increase of any of its responsibilities
or liabilities under the Act.  If anything herein
contained be invalide under said Act in so far as it
applies as a matter of law it shall, to the extent of
such invalidity but no further, be null and void.

This bill of lading, if issued in a locality where there
is in force a Carriage of Goods by Sea Act or ordinance
or statue of a similar nature to the International
Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules Relating
to Bills of lading, dated at Brussels, august 1924, is
subject to the provisions of such Act, ordinance or
statute and rules thereto annexed.

Prior to loading on and after discharge from the ship,
the goods, while in the carrier's custody, shall be at
the sole risk of the shipper, consignee or owner of the
goods with respect to any loss or damage howsoever caused
and even though due to negligence, except if liability
for any such loss or damage is to be determined in a port
or place where such stipulation against liability is
invalid or unenforceable, then the provisions of said
Carriage of Goods by Sea Act of the United States (except
subdivisions 2 (i) and (g) of Section 4 thereof and
except as otherwise specifically provided for herein)
shall govern before the goods are loaded on and after
they are discharged from the ship and throughout the
entire time the goods are in the custody of the carrier
and during such time the carrier shall not be liable in
any capacity whatsoever for any loss or damage howsoever
or wheresoever occurring other than in the management of
the ship unless shown to be caused by the negligence of
the carrier.

Also prior to loading and after discharge, the carrier
shall not be liable in any capacity whatsoever for any
loss or damage, whenever or wherever occurring and not at
any time with respect to goods or property covered by
Clauses 12 and 13 hereof, arising or resulting from
hostilities or from acts of sabotage or of malicious
persons, or from strikes, lockouts, stoppages or
restraints or lack of labor or labor troubles from
whoatsoever cause, whether of employees of the carrier or
others and whether partial or general, or whether
existing or anticipated at the time of delivery of the
goods to the carrier or at any other time.

The carrier shall not be liable in any capacity
whatsoever for any loss or damage to the goods while the
goods are not in its actual custody.

3. RESERVATION OF CERTAIN RIGHTS - The carrier shall also
be entitled to the full benefit of all rights and
immunities and all limitations of, or exemptions from,
liability contained in any law of the United States,
including but not limited to those provided in or
authorized by Sections 4281 to 4286, inclusive, and
Section 4289 of the United States Revised Statutes and
amendments thereto, or any other country or place whose
laws shall be applicable.  This bill of lading shall not
be deemed to be or give rise to a personal contract of
the carrier.  Nothing in this bill of lading, expressed
or implied, shall be deemed to waive or operate to
deprive the carrier of or lessen the benefits of any such
rights, immunities, limitations or exemptions.

4. BENEFICIARIES OF EXEMPTIONS, ETC. - (a) Because of the
relationship between them and as the carrier requires
persons and companies to perform or assist in performance
of work or services undertaken by it in this contract, it
is expressly agreed between the parties hereto that the
master, officers, crew members, contractors, stevedores,
longshoremen, agents, representatives, employees or
others used, engaged or employed by the carrier in the
performance of such work or services shall each be the
beneficiaries of and shall be entitled to the same, but
no further, exemptions and immunities from and
limitations of liability which the carrier has under this
bill of lading, whether printed, written, stamped thereon
or incorporated by reference.

(b) Without limitation or restriction of the exemptions
and immunities from and limitations of liability provided
for in subdivision (a), the persons and companies
mentioned therein shall be entitles to the same, but no
further, benefits which the carrier has under Clauses 23
and 26 of this bill of lading.

(c) Without limitation or restriction of the exemptions
and immunities from and limitations of liability provided
for in subdivisions (a) and (b), the persons and
companies mentioned therein shall be entitled to the
same, but no further, benefits which the carrier has
under the U.S. Carriage of Goods by Sea Act including but
not limited to Sections 3(6), 4(1), 4(2)(a), 4(2)(b),
4(2)(c) and 4(5) of said Act.

5. DEMISE CLAUSE - If the ship is not owned by or
chartered by demise to the company above, this bill of
lading shall, with respect the carriage, custody and care
of the goods while aboard the ship or on her tackles,
have effect only as a contract between the shipper,
consignee and the owner of the ship or demise charterer,
as the case may be, may be, as principal made through the
agency of said company which shall be under that the
company above or any other person other than the owner or
demise charterer is the carrier or bailee of the goods,
all rights, exemptions, immunities or limitations of
liability provide by law and/or terms of this bill of
lading shall be available to it or such other person.

The shipper warrants he knows the name of the owner
and/or demise charterer of the ship and waives any
non-disclosure of the owner's or demise charterer's name.

6. SCOPE OF VOYAGE - The voyage may or may not include
all usual, scheduled, geographic, direct, customary,
ordinary or advertised routes, ports or places, whether
or not named or disclosed in this bill of lading.

As often as and for any reason whatsoever which the
carrier or master may deem advisable, whether relating to
the current or a prior, intermediate, subsequent or
overlapping voyage, or to matters occurring, known, or
anticipated before or after receipt or loading of the
goods, and whether or not the voyage may have commenced,
the ship, at any stage of the voyage and without notice
to the shipper or consignee: (a) may proceed under any
conditions of sea and weather, depart from or change the
intended, usual, scheduled, geographic, direct, customary,
ordinary or advertised route and proceed in any direction
by any route whatsoever, or return to or call at or stay
or delay at any ports or places in any rotation, sequence
or order, backward or forward, or omit calling at any
ports or places and (b) may also, at any time or place
whatsoever, with or without the goods aboard, proceed
under sail or in tow, adjust compasses, carry live stock,
deck cargo and dangerous goods, drydock, go in ways
or to repair yard, shift berths or places in port, lie on
bottom or aground in berth, make trial trips or tests,
take fuel or stores at any place, be at anchor or
moorings, sail or proceed in or out of ports or elsewhere
without pilots, whether or not pilots are compulsory or
customary and available, tow and assist vessels or craft
in any situation, or save or attempt to save life or
property whether the property be that of the carrier or
others, including the liberty to depart from her course
to any extent for of any such purposes.  The provisions
of this clause are not to be restricted by any words of
this bill of lading whether printed, stamped or
incorporated herein or by prior notice or advertisement.

7. RISKS, DAMAGES, ETC. - In any situation whatsoever or
wheresoever occurring and whether existing or anticipated
before the commencement of or during the voyage,
including the event of any possible, anticipated or
non-anticipated, existing or occurring political action,
boycott or inconvenience whether authorized or not by any
party or person, which in the judgement of the carrier or
the master is likely to give rise to risk of capture,
seizure, arrest, detention, injury, damage, delay or
danger, detriment or disadvantage to, or loss of any
goods, the ship or any persons, or to make it unsafe,
imprudent, inadvisable or unlawful for any reason to
receive, or keep or load the goods or commence to proceed
on or continue the voyage or to enter or discharge or
disembark the goods or passengers at any port, the
carrier or the master (a) before, during or after receipt
or loading of the goods or before the commencement of the
voyage, may decline to receive, keep or load the goods or
may discharge them or any part thereof, may require the
shipper or person entitled thereto to take delivery at
port of shipment or elsewhere and if he fails to do so,
may warehouse or store or hold the goods; or (b) at any
time and whether or not the ship is proceeding toward or
is at the port of discharge or the usual or intended
place of discharge therein, may discharge the goods into
any depot, lazaretto, craft, or other place; (c) may have
the ship proceed or return, directly or indirectly, to or
stop, at any port or place, and discharge the goods, or
any part thereof, at any such port or place into craft,
or into or on any other place whatsoever; or (d) may
retain the goods or any part thereof, on board until the
return trip, or until such time as the carrier or the
master deems advisable and discharge of the goods, or any
part thereof, into craft or into or on any other place
whatsoever at port of shipment or elsewhere; or (e) at
port of shipment or elsewhere, substitute another vessel
or may tranship or forward the goods, or any part
thereof, by any means, but always at the risk and expense
of the goods.

Any measures or procedure whatsoever authorized by this
clause may be taken without notice to the shipper or
consignee and shall be considered as taken as agent of
the shipper and consignee and at their risk and expense,
but without prejudice to any lien of the carrier.  Any
disposition of the goods pursuant to this clause shall
constitute complete and final delivery of the goods and
performance of this contract by the carrier who shall be
free of further responsibility for any and all services
rendered as herein provided, the carrier shall be
entitled to extra reasonable compensation including but
not limited to proportionate additional freight if the
length or duration of the voyage is increased.

8. ORDER, ETC. - The carrier, master and ship shall have
liberty to comply with any orders, directions,
regulations, requests or suggestions, including any such
which may be given or effected pursuant to or by reason
of any agreement or undertaking exacted from or
considered advisable by the carrier or master, whether or
not relating to the ship, the goods, other cargo or to
passengers, crew, or other persons aboard, howsoever,
whensoever and wheresoever given by or received from the
government of any nations or department thereof or by any
person acting or purporting to act with the authority of
such government or department or by any committee or
person having or purporting to have, under the provisions
and terms of the war risk insurance on the ship, the
right to do so or to approve the voyage.  Any disposition
whatsoever of the goods pursuant to this clause shall
constitute delivery and be a fulfillment of the contract
of carriage by the carrier, which shall not be under any
further obligation, and the goods shall thereafter be
solely at their own risk and expense.  For any and all
expenses or charges incurred by the carrier in connection
with any such compliance, the carrier shall be entitled
to extra compensation including, but not limited to,
proportionate additional freight if the length or
duration of the voyage is increased.

The ship may carry contraband, explosive, munitions,
warlike stores, dangerous and hazardous cargo, and may
sail armed or unarmed, with or without convoy, and with
or without lights.

9. LIBERTIES - The carrier or master, in its or his
discretion, at any time and place whether or not the
reason for its or his action or inaction was known at
time of receipt of the goods, without notice (a) may
substitute another ship, whether operated by the carrier
or others, or of a different type or speed, or
whether before, during or after loading the goods or any
part thereof, and whether the substituted ship arrives or
departs or is scheduled to do so before or after the ship
named herein, (b) may, in case of goods or any part
thereof are shut out, have the ship proceed without the
goods or any part thereof and the goods may be forwarded
in whole or in part by any means; (c) may, if the goods
or any part of them is damaged or lost or in danger of
damage or loss or of becoming worthless or subject to
charges disproportionate to their value, or because of
their condition take any measure to recondition, recover
possession, take any measure to salve, protect,
recondition, recover possession of, sell, return to
shipper, hold, store or otherwise deal with or dispose of
the goods or any part of them, or forward the goods or
any part of them by any means to or toward port of
discharge; and (d) may, if there shall be a forced
interruption, abandonment or frustration of the voyage at
the port of loading or discharging or elsewhere or
because of the need of repair to the ship or the
inability of the ship to prosecute the voyage promptly at
the port of loading or discharging or elsewhere,
substitute to prosecute the voyage promptly at the port
of loading or dishcarging or elsewhere, substitute
another vessel or may forward the goods or any part
thereof by any means; (e) may take such steps that in the
discretion of the master and carrier may be deemed
necessary in the event of any boycott, political
disturbance, inconvenience or interruption by any party,
whether at port of load, discharge or elsewhere, which in
the judgement of carrier or master may affect the ship or
goods and any additional freight charges and costs
arising therefrom are additional cost and expense of the
goods and the owners of the goods; (f) the carrier is not
required to, and does not undertake to, deliver the goods
at port of discharge or elsewhere at any particular time
or to meet any market or in time for any particular
purpose or use nor does it undertake that the ship or
substitute ship will sail or arrive at any stated or
scheduled time.  The carrier shall not be liable for any
loss or damage arising or resulting from delayed or
earlier arrival of the goods or any damage or expense
incurred by the shipper or consignee because of any
change in date or time of sailing or arriving.

All such measures, procedures or acts taken pursuant to
the clause shall be at the risk and expense of the goods.

10. SUFFICIENCY OF PACKING AND MARKING - The shipper,
whether principal or agent, represents and warrants that
the goods are properly described, marked, secured and
packed in adequate containers and may be handled in
ordinary course without damage to the goods, ship or
property or persons and guarantees the correctness of the
particulars, weight of each piece or package and
description of the goods and agrees to ascertain and to
disclose in writing on shipment, any condition, nature,
quality, ingredient or characteristic of the goods of, or
which might indicate they are of an inflammable,
explosive, corrosive, radioactive, noxious, hazardous or
dangerous nature, or any condition, nature, quality,
ingredient or characteristic that may cause damage,
injury or detriment to the goods, other property, the
ships or to persons, and for the failure to do so the
shipper agrees to be liable for and fully indemnify the
carrier and hold it harmless in respect of any injury or
death of any person and loss or damage to cargo or
property.  The carrier shall not be concluded as to the
correctness of any such mark, descriptions or
representations.

If at any time the goods, whether ashore or afloat, are,
in the judegment of the carrier or master or of the
health or other authorities, spoiling, decayed,
injurious, offensive, unfit for further carriage or
storage, or dangerous to health or other property, or if
the goods are condemned or ordered destroyed by any such
authorities, the goods may, forthwith and without notice,
be thrown overboard, destroyed, discharged, stored, put
ashore at any place or aboard lighters or craft or
otherwise disposed of by the carrier, master or others,
solely at the risk and expense of the goods, when the
carrier's responsibility shall cease, and the carrier
shall not be liable for any loss or damage whatsoever.

Any goods that are in fact or may be considered by any
civil or military authorities or the master inflammable,
explosive, noxious, hazardous or dangerous, shipped
without such full disclosure, or if shipped with the
knowledge and consent of the carrier or master as to
their nature and character, shall become a danger to the
ship or those aboard, the goods or other property, or any
part thereof, may at any time or place be landed, thrown
overboard, destroyed or rendered innocuous without
compensation to the shipper or consignee and extra
charges and expenses, if any, for discharging,
lightering, handling, caring for, disposing of or
otherwise occasioned by such goods shall be borne by the
goods.

11. PERISHABLE GOODS - Fruits, vegetables, meats and any
goods of a perishable nature when accepted may be carried
on ordinary cargo compartments or on deck and without
special facilities or attention, unless the carrier has
made and inserted in this bill of lading a written
agreement that such goods will be carried in a
refrigerated or otherwise specially equipped compartment.

Unless a special agreement is made and inserted in this
bill of lading, the carrier does not undertake and shall
not be liable for failure to give the goods, whether or
not of a perishable nature, or unusual or special care,
handling, storage or facilities not given ordinary
non-perishable general cargo, or discharge or deliver the
goods into or to any refrigerated, chilled, cooled,
ventilated, insulated, heated, drained, dry, moist, or
specially equipped place, compartment or other facility,
and the shipper represents and warrants the goods do not
require any such care or facilities.

12. LIVE ANIMALS - Live animals, when accepted, are
received, kept and carried solely at shipper's risk of
accident, disease or mortality and without any warranty
or undertaking whatsoever by the carrier that the ship is
seaworthy, fitted, manned, equipped and supplied for
their reception, carriage and preservation.

With respect to live animals, all risk of loss or damage
by perils inherent in or incidental to the carriage of
live animals shall be borne by the shipper and the
carrier shall have the benefit of all provisions of this
bill of lading not inconsistent with the provisions of
this clause and shall have the benefit of all and the
same rights, immunities, exemptions and limitations as
provided for in Sec. 4 of the United States Carriage of
Goods by Sea Act, 1936, excepting subdivisions (1),
(2).(i), (2).(g), (3) and (4) thereof.  In no event shall
the carrier be liable for any loss or damage to live
animals arising or resulting from any cause whatsoever,
including unseaworthiness, unless affirmatively proved to
be due to lack of due diligence or to the fault or
neglect of the carrier or those for whom it may otherwise
be responsible, but the carrier shall not in any event be
liable for any act, neglect or default in the navigation
or the management of the ship.

13. STOWAGE UNDER AND ON DECK, ETC. - Goods stowed in
poop, forecastle, deckhouse,shelter deck, passenger
space, storeroom, bunker space, or any other covered-in
space shall be deemed to be stowed under deck for all
purposes, including General Average.

Goods, whether or not shipped in containers, vans, or
trailers and whether packed by shipper or carrier may be
carried on deck at carrier's option without notice and if
carried on deck, carrier shall not be required to
specifically note, mark or stamp any statement of on-deck
carriage in this bill of lading, any custom to the
contrary notwithstanding the Carriage of Goods and/or
containers on deck shall be subject to the terms of the
United States Carriage of Goods by Sea Act, 1936
notwithstanding S 1(C) thereof or any other Hague Rule
legislation which would be applicable if the goods were
carried under deck.

14. BULK CARGO - As the carrier has no reasonable means
of checking the quantity of weight of goods shipped in
bulk, the carrier does not represent the quantity or
weight of such goods as furnished by the shipper and
apppearing in this bill of lading as being accurate.

If it is agreed freight is payable on outturn weight of
cargo in such event if the outturn weight is less than
that represented by the shipper, it is agreed the carrier
is entitled to and shall be paid by the shipper,
consignee or owner of the goods dead freight based upon
the difference between the actual weight of the cargo
discharged and the weight stated in the bill of lading
and based on the rate stated therein.

15. SPECIE & VALUABLES - Gold, silver, specie, bullion or
other valuables, including those named or described in
Sec. 4281 of the Revised Statues of the United States,
will not be received by the carrier unless their true
character and value are disclosed to the carrier and a
special written agreement therefor has been made in
advance, and will not, in any case, be loaded or landed
by the carrier.  No such valuables shall be considered
received by or delivered to the carrier until brought
aboard the ship by the shipper and there put in the
actual possession of, and a written receipt therefor is
given by the master or other officer in charge.  Such
valuables will only be delivered by the carrier aboard
the ship on presentation of bills of lading properly
endorsed, and upon such delivery on board, the carrier's
responsibility shall cease.  If delivery is not so taken
promptly after the ship's arrival at the port of
discharge, the goods may be retained aboard or landed or
carried on, solely at the risk and expense of the goods.

16. THROUGH CARGO AND TRANSSHIPMENT - The carrier or
master, in the exercise of its or his discretion and
although transshipment or forwarding of the goods may not
have been contemplated or provided for herein, may at
port of discharge or any other place whatsoever transship
or forward the goods or any part thereof by means at the
risk and expense of the goods and at any time, whether
before or after loading on the ship named herein and by
any route, whether within or outside the scope of the
voyage or beyond the port of discharge or destination of
the goods and without notice to the shipper or consignee.
The carrier or master may delay such transshipping or
forwarding for any reason, including but not limited to
awaiting a vessel or other means of transportation
whether by the carrier or others.

The carrier or master in making arrangements with any
person for or in connection with all transshipping or
forwarding of the goods or the use of any means of
transportation not used or operated by the carrier, shall
be considered solely the agent of the shipper and
consignee and without any other responsibility whatsoever
or for the cost thereof.  The receipt, custody, carriage
and delivery of the goods by any such person or
on-carrier and all transshipping and forwarding shall be
subject to all the provisions whatsoever of such persons
or on-carrier's form of bill of lading or agreement then
in use, whether or not issued and even though such
provisions may be less favorable to the shipper or
consignee in any respect than the provisions of this bill
of lading.  The shipper and consignee authorize the
carrier or master to arrange with any such person or
on-carrier that the lowest valuation or limitation of
liability contained in the bill of lading or other
agreement of such person or on-carrier shall apply.

All responsibility of the carrier in any capacity shall
altogether cease and the goods shall be deemed delivered
by it and this contract of carriage shall be deemed fully
performed on actual or constructive delivery of the goods
to itself as such agent of the shipper and consignee or
to any such person or on-carrier at port of discharge
from ship or elsewhere in case of an earlier
transshipment.

The shipper and consignee shall be liable to this carrier
for and shall indemnify it against all expense of
forwarding and transshipping including any increase in or
additional freight or additional freight charges
whatsoever.

Pending or during forwarding or transshipping, including
any increase in or additional freight or other charges
whatsoever.

Pending or during forwarding or transshipping this
carrier or the master may store the goods ashore or
afloat solely as agent of the shipper and at the risk and
expense of the goods and this carrier shall not be
responsible for the acts, neglect, delay or failure to
act of anyone to whom the goods are entrusted or
delivered for storage, handling, or any service
incidental thereto.

In case the carrier issues a bill of lading covering
transportation by a local or other carrier prior to the
goods being delivered to and put into the physical
custody of the carrier, it shall not be under any
responsibility or liability whatsoever for loss or
damage to the goods occurring prior to or until the
actual receipt or custody of the goods by it at the port
or place of transshipment and in arranging for the
transportation to such port or place where the goods are
put in its physical custody, it acts solely as the agent
of the shipper.

17. LIGHTERAGE - The carrier or master, in the exercise
of its or his discretion, may at any time, whether or not
customary and without notice, require the goods to be
lightered to or from the ship at the risk and expense of
the goods and, in this event, the carrier or master may
make arrangements for lighterage or use of craft by it,
in so doing shall be considered solely as the agent of
the shipper and consignee and without any other
responsibility whatsoever.  The carrier shall not be
responsible for the choice of, condition, seaworthiness
or manning of such lighter or craft nor for any loss or
damage to the goods while on such lighter or craft or in
the custody of the lightermen who shall be considered
agents of the shipper or consignee.

If the carrier elects to lighter the goods in or with
lighters or craft operated or controlled by it, the
carrier shall have the benefit of all the liberties,
rights, exemptions, immunities and limitations contained
in this bill of lading, including those incorporated
herein, with respect to such lighterage and may collect
the cost thereof from the shipper or consignee.

18. DISCHARGE, DELIVERY, ETC. - The carrier shall not be
required to give any notification whatsoever of arrival,
discharge or any disposition of or action taken with
respect to the goods, any custom or practice of the port,
the carrier or others to the contrary notwithstanding and
even though the goods are consigned to order with
provision for notice to a named person.

The carrier or master may appoint a stevedore or any
other person to unload and take delivery of the goods and
such delivery from ship tackle shall be considered
complete and all responsibility of the carrier shall then
terminate.

It is agreed that when possession of goods is received or
taken by the customs or other authorities or by any
operator of any lighter, craft, dock, pier, store,
warehouse, refrigerator, elevator or other facilities
whether selected by the carrier or master, shipper or
consignee, whether public or private, such authority or
person shall be considered as having received possession
and delivery of the goods solely as agent of and on
behalf of the shipper and consignee, at the risk of the
goods and subject to any lien of the carrier thereon.
Also if the consignee does not take possession or
delivery of the goods as soon as the goods are at the
disposal of the consignee for removal, the goods shall be
at their own risk and expense, delivery shall be
considered complete and the carrier may, subject to
carrier's lien, send the goods to store warehouse, put
them on lighters or other craft, put them in possession
of authorities, dump, permit to lie where landed or
otherwise dispose of them always at the risk and expense
of the goods, and the shipper and consignee shall pay and
indemnify the carrier for any loss, damage, lien, charge
or expense whatsoever suffered or incurred in so dealing
with or disposing of the goods, or by reason of the
consignee's failure or delay in taking possession and
delivery as provided herein.

19. DELIVERY BY MARKS, SWEEPINGS, ETC. - The carrier
shall not be liable for delay in or failure of delivery
in accordance with marks unless the goods shall have been
clearly, legibly and durably marked with identifying
marks and the port of discharge.  The carrier shall not
be required to separate or deliver in accordance with
brand, marks, numbers, sizes or types of packages but
only in accordance with leading marks.  Goods that cannot
be identifed as to leading marks, goods out of or
separate or deliver in accordance with brand marks,
numbers, sizes or types of packages but only in
accordance with leading marks.  Goods that cannot be
identified as to leading marks, goods out of or separated
from their containers or packages, cargo sweepings,
liquid residue and any unclaimed goods not otherwise
accounted for, may, for the purpose of completing
delivery, be allocated to the various consignees of cargo
of substantially or general like character in proportion
to any apparent shortage, loss of weight or damage, and
such goods or such part thereof shall be accepted as good
delivery.  Loss of or damage to goods in bulk stowed
without separation from other bulk cargo of substantially
or general like character shipped by the shipper or by
others may be divided and accepted in proportion among
the several shipments.

Liquid cargo in bulk shall be pumped aboard by shipper as
fast as ship can receive at the shipper's risk and
expense so far as the ship's connection and shall be
received at the port of discharge as ship's connection so
soon and as fast as carrier is pprepared to deliver.

20. MENDING, COOPERAGE FINES, ETC. - The shipper and
consignee shall be liable for, indemnify the carrier and
ship and hold them harmless against, and the carrier
shall have a lien on the goods for, all expenses and
charges for mending, cooperage, bailing, repairing,
reconditioning the goods or their containers, and all
expenses incurred in protecting, caring for or otherwise
made for the benefit of the goods, whether the goods be
damaged or not, and for any payment, expense, penalty,
fine, dues, duty, tax or impost, loss, damage, detention,
demurrage, or liability of whatsoever nature, sustained
or incurred by or levied upon the carrier or the ship in
connection with the goods or by reason of the goods being
or having been on board, or because of shipper's failure
to procure consular or other proper permits,
certificates, or any papers that may be required at any
port or place or shipper's failure to supply information
or otherwise to comply with all laws, regulations and
requirements of law in connection with the goods or from
any other act or omission of the shipper or consignee,
also for all damages, charges, legal fees, expenses or
disbursements which the carrier may suffer, incur or pay
in connection with or arising out of attachments,
seizures, executions, claims or legal proceedings of any
description against the goods by third parties or any
proceedings by way of interpleader or otherwise which
the carrier may bring to determine the right of ownership
or possession in or to the goods, also for any expense of
or charges for regaining or attempting to regain
possession of the goods.  The shipper and consignee
authorize the carrier to pay and/or incur all such
charges, expenses and other matters mentioned above and
the carrier or master may solely at the expense of and as
agent for the shipper engage other persons to mend,
cooper, bale, repair or recondition packages or goods,
regain or seek to regain possession of the goods and to
do all things deemed advisable for the benefit of the
goods.

21. FREIGHT, LIENS, ETC. - Freight shall be payable, at
carrier's option, on gross intake or discharged weight or
measurement or on a valued other basis.  Freight may be
calculated on the basis of any particulars concerning the
goods furnished by the shipper, but the carrier may at
any time weigh, measure and value the goods, and open
packages to examine contents.  If there is an error in
freight or other charges, if on correction the freight or
charges should be higher, the carrier may collect the
additional amount.  If shipper, consignee and goods shall
be liable for all expenses incurred in examining,
weighing, measuring and valuing the goods.

Full freight to the port of discharge named herein and
all advance charges against the goods shall be considered
completely earned on receipt of the goods by the carrier,
whether the freight or charges be prepaid or be stated or
intended to be prepaid or to be collected at port of
discharge or destination or subsequently, and the carrier
shall be entitled absolutely to all freight and charges,
whether actually paid or not and to receive or retain
them under all circumstances whatever, ship and/or cargo
lost or not lost, or the voyage changed, broken up,
frustrated, or abandoned.

All charges or sums payable to the carrier are due when
incurred and such charges, sums and all unpaid freight or
other charges shall be paid in full and without any
offset, counterclaim or deduction.

The shipper and consignee shall be jointly and severally
liable to the carrier for the payment of all freight,
charges and other amounts due the carrier and for any
failure of either or both to perform his or their
obligations under the provisions of this bill of lading
and they shall indemnify the carrier against and hold it
harmless from all liability, loss, damage and expenses
which the carrier may sustain or incur, arising or
resulting from any such failure of performance by the
shipper and consignee or either of them.

The carrier accepts no responsibility and the shipper
shall be liable for return freight and charges on goods
refused exportation or importation by any government or
public authorities.

The carrier shall have a lien on the goods, which shall
survive delivery, for all freight, charges and other
amounts due under this bill of lading and may enforce
this lien, by all available means, including public or
private sale and without notice, upon the goods or any
part thereof and any property belonging to the shipper or
consignee which may be in the carrier's possession.  The
net proceeds of any such sale, after deducting costs and
expenses in executing the lien, shall be applied towards
the settlement of the freight, charges and any other
amount due the carrier and the carrier shall not be under
any further obligation in respect thereof except to
account for the balance, if any, of such proceeds.  The
shipper shall also remain responsible in the event the
carrier is unable to obtain such payment on exercising a
lien on the goods.

22. BOTH-TO-BLAME COLLISIONS - If the ship comes into
collision with another vessel as a result of the
negligence of the other vessel and any act, neglect or
default of the master, mariner, pilot or of the servants
of the carrier in the navigation or in the management of
the ship, the owners of the goods carried hereunder will
indemnify the carrier against all loss or liability to
the other or non-carrying vessel or her owner insofar as
such loss or liability represents loss of, or damage to,
or any claim whatsoever, of the owners of said goods,
paid or payable by the other or non-carrying vessel or
her owners to the owners of said goods and set-off,
recouped or recovered by the other or non-carrying vessel
or her owners as part of their claim against the carrying
ship or carrier. The foregoing provisions shall also
apply where the owners, operators or those in charge of
any vessel or vessels or objects other than, in addition
to, the colliding vessels or objects are at fault in
respect of a collision, contact, stranding or other
accident.

23. GENERAL AVERAGE - General average shall be adjusted,
stated and settled according to the York-Antwerp Rules
1934 at the Port of New York, or last port of discharge,
at carrier's option, and as to matters not provided for
in these Rules, according to the laws and usages at the
Port of New York or any other place at the option of the
Carrier.  Average agreement and bond, together with such
additional security as may be required by the carrier,
shall be furnished before delivery of the goods.  The
deposit to secure the payment of General Average shall
be paid in Dollars of United States of North America.

The adjustment of General Average shall be effected in
Dollars of United States of North America.

In the event of accident, danger, damage or disaster
before or after commencement of the voyage, resulting
from any cause whatsoever, whether due to negligence or
not, for which, or for the consequence of which, the
carrier is not responsible, by statute, contract or
otherwise, the goods, shippers, consignees or owners of
the goods shall contribute with the carrier in general
average to the payment of any sacrifices, losses or
expenses of a general average nature that may be made or
incurred, and shall pay salvage and special charges
incurred in respect of the goods.  If a salving ship is
owned or operated by the carrier, salvage shall be paid
as fully and in the same manner as if such salving ship
or ships belong to strangers.

24. FIRE - Without waiver or limitation of any exemption
from or limitation of liability afforded by law or by
this bill of lading, neither the carrier nor any
corporation owned by, subsidiary to, or associated or
affiliated with the carrier shall be liable for any loss
or damage wheresoever and whensoever occurring by reason
of any fire whatsoever, including that occurring before
loading on or after discharge from the ship.  Unless such
fire shall have been caused by the design or neglect or
by the actual fault or privity of the carrier or of such
corporation, respectively, in a situation where such
exemption from liability may not be permitted by law,
neither the carrier nor such corporation shall be liable
for any loss or damage by fire unless caused by
negligence, including that imputed by law, for which the
carrier or such corporation is liable, respectively.

25. VALUATION - It is agreed and understood that the
meaning of the word "package" includes animals and all
pieces, articles or things of any description whatsoever
except goods shipped in bulk.

In the event of any loss or of damage or in any
connection with goods exceeding in actual value $500 per
package lawful money of the United States, or in case of
goods not shipped in packages or per customary freight
unit, the value of the goods shall be deemed to be $500
per package or per customary freight unit as the case may
be, and the carrier's liability, if any, shall be
determined on the basis of a value of $500 per package or
per customary freight unit, unless the nature of the
goods and a higher value shall be declared by the shipper
in writing before shipment and inserted in the bill of
lading.

In the event of a higher value being declared by the
shipper in writing and inserted in this bill of lading
and extra freight paid thereon as required, the carrier's
liability, in any, for loss of or damage to or in
connection with the goods shall be determined on the
basis of such declared value and pro rata of such
declared value in the case of partial loss or damage,
provided such declared value does not exceed the actual
value of the goods.

In the event of any loss of or damage of or in any
connection with goods of a value of $500 or less than
$500 per package, lawful money of the United States, or
in the case of bulk goods shipped as such, per customary
freight unit, the carrier's liability, if any, shall be
limited to the invoice value of the goods unless the
nature of the goods and a higher value have been declared
by the shipper in writing before shipment and inserted in
the bill of lading.  It is agreed that in no event shall
this clause operate to increase the extent of the
carrier's liability beyond the applicable market value if
that be less than invoice value.

In no event shall the carrier be liable for more than the
loss or damage actually sustained.  The carrier shall not
be liable for any consequent or special damages and shall
have the option of replacing any lost goods and of
replacing or repairing any damaged goods.

26. CLAIMS AND SUITS - Unless written notice of claim,
except as otherwise provided, in the clause, is given to
the carrier within twenty days after delivery of the
goods, or where the goods are not delivered, within ten
days after the vessel completes discharge at the port
named herein, the carrier and the ship shall be
discharged from all liability.

Any claim against the carrier for any adjustment, refund
of, or with respect to freight, charges or expense or for
delay or any claim other than for loss or damage to
goods, must be given to the carrier or its agent in
writing within twenty days from the date when the goods
are or should have been delivered.

In any event, the carrier and the ship shall be
discharged from all liability for any loss or damage to
the goods or with respect to freight, charges or
expenses, or the refund thereof or any claim of
whatsoever kind, nature or description, with respect to
or in connection with the goods unless suit, arbitration
or other appropriate proceeding is brought within one
year after delivery of the goods or the date when the
goods should have been delivered.

27. ENFORCEABILITY, ETC. - The terms of this bill of
lading shall be separable and if any part or provision is
invalid or unenforceable, such circumstances shall not
affect the validity or enforceability of any other part
or term hereof.

28. SUPERSEDING CLAUSE - All agreement or freight
engagements for the shipment of goods are superseded by
this bill of lading.  As required by the carrier, a
signed bill of lading, duly endorsed, must be surrendered
to the carrier on delivery of the goods.

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