Who is the shipper in carriage of goods by sea?
The Chinese Maritime Code (CMC) provides a definition of shipper in Article 42(3). "Shipper" means: (a) the person by whom or in whose name or on whose behalf a contract of carriage of goods by sea has been concluded with a carrier; (b) the person by whom or in whose name or on whose behalf the goods have been delivered to the carrier involved in the contract of carriage of goods by sea.
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