Air waybill
Under an air waybill (English: airway bill (AWB ) ) refers to an instrument which is used to confirm the amount of the external appearance and some of the content of the acquired air freight ( details depend on the specific contractual agreements or the underlying legal provisions: Germany national under § § 407 et seq commercial Code ( HGB); internationally. Montreal Convention 1999 addition are to be used agreements which are specified by the associations, such as the IATA transport regulations ).
"Replaces" The air waybill, the functions of the acknowledgment by the airline, the consignment and barrier papers and does not constitute investment goods
System
Each air waybill is marked with a serial number and the 3 digit code of the airline. At the IATA Agent AWB- number ranges are assigned, with those of the continuous - waybill is printed. This serial number is composed as follows. 020-1234567 5 The first three digits identify the airline ( for example, 020 for Lufthansa Cargo). For the next seven digits of the serial number of the air waybill and the last digit results is the so-called check digit. This is required to the authenticity of the air waybill number to check. This is done nowadays, mostly automatically in the background by the computer as a modulo -7 calculation, but there are also manual way of checking: The seven -digit number (without the carrier code) is divided by 7. The remainder of this division is the check digit. This means the last digit can therefore always be only 0-6. The calculator is checked after dividing the first digit after the decimal point: 0 = 0, 1 = 1, 2 = 2, 4 = 3, 5 = 4, 7 = 5, 8 = 6
Another method to calculate the numbers yourself, is to multiply the value after the decimal point seven.
For example: Bill of Lading 1234567 ÷ 7 = 176,366.714285 Not one considers the number before the decimal point, one expects further:
0.714285 × 7 = 4.999995 gives rounded (rounded up) here 5 Types of air waybills
There are various kinds of air waybills. The IATA Direct AWB: Only a program with a Consignor ( Shipper ) is sent to a target ( destination) and is delivered to a receiver ( consignee ). More common is that just the main objectives ( such as Shanghai, Tokyo, New York, Johannesburg, Rio de Janeiro, Melbourne, Bangkok, Atlanta, Seoul, ... ) is, along both the import and export consignments are collected and then go out as a broadcast ( groupage consignment or Consol ) and also arrive. Then a HAWBs is created ( House Air Way Bill) and then a MAWB (Master Air Way Bill ) in the fly all HAWBs than one shipment, as they were summarized for each individual shipment. The sender and receiver in MAWB is always the forwarder named because he collects the mail and then divides again after transport.
There are also the so-called back- to-back ( B2B) of a Consol is quasi because there is a MAWB and also a HAWBs, but there is only one HAWBs, so it is not really a groupage consignment, but only a single shipment. B2B be written because the airlines do not collect shipments fly ( shipments where the recipient pays all costs of transportation ). So you can create a HAWBs collect and MAWB prepaid ( prepayment). The program is then delivered to the recipient and the carrier pulls the transport costs again.
The consignor is liable as a rule - depending on the specific agreement and / or the underlying statutory provision - for the accuracy of details on the air waybill, unless he can prove that no fault of the misstatement hits him ( for example, if the IATA Agent has the data entered incorrectly ).
Tasks of an air waybill
Three copies shall be deemed originals: