- Enforcement of right of freight forwarder to deviate from client’s instructions, including choice and type of transport vehicle, route of carriage, stages of transportation.
- Enforcement of right of freight forwarder to withhold cargo until payment of reward and expenses or until presentation by the client of proper security of execution of obligations in future.
- Guarantees of presentation by the client of necessary documents and information about nature of cargo, terms of carriage and other data, which is necessary for execution of duties by freight forwarder.
- Presentation of information about progress of carriage by the freight forwarder.
- Management of risks for liability of the freight forwarder for loss, non-delivery or damage to cargo after its acceptance by the freight forwarder and before delivery of cargo to receiver, as per terms of freight forwarding services contract, or to receiver’s representative.
- Justification of loss, non-delivery or damage to cargo based on circumstances which freight forwarder could not have predicted or eliminated.
- Minimization of risks of obligation to return freight forwarder’s reward to the client.
- Evaluation of notice of loss, non-delivery, damage to cargo.
- Management of risks of liability of the freight forwarder for breach of deadline for execution of obligations under freight forwarding services contract.
- Agreement to change liability limit of the freight forwarder.
- Evaluation of legality and reasonableness of claim against the freight forwarder out of freight forwarding services contract.
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