After receiving the shipment forecast from the shipper, collect and fill in the “booking order” from the airline’s ton control department, and provide the corresponding information: cargo name, volume (single piece size if necessary), weight, number of pieces, destination, required shipping time, and other transportation requirements (temperature, loading and unloading requirements, time limit for cargo to destination, etc.). After the cargo is in the warehouse, confirm the booking details of each column in the power of attorney according to the actual received shipment, and confirm the booking with the airline.
Air transportation includes centralized consignment and direct transportation. The air waybill also includes the master waybill and the house waybill. The air waybill is the main valid voucher for the consignor to collect and settle foreign exchange. Therefore, the filling of the waybill must be detailed, accurate, and strictly in accordance with the requirements of consistency between the bill of lading and the cargo, and the bill of lading.
After receiving the goods, the agent conducts centralized consignment. It is necessary to gather the goods from different consignors together and hand them over to the airline. The agent and the airline need to issue an air waybill as a voucher, which is the master waybill. Usually, one master waybill corresponds to multiple house waybills. All the house waybills of a consignment must be placed in a sturdy envelope and attached to the master bill of lading, and the “Nature and Quantity” column of the bill of lading should be marked as “Consolidation as per attached manifest”, which means “the relevant information of the consignment is attached to the accompanying manifest”.
A house waybill is an air waybill that the consolidator needs to issue to each actual consignor when collecting the goods from each consignor during the consignment. Therefore, the consignor and consignee filled in the house waybill are the real relevant contacts of the goods.