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31/07/2001
An Irish ship agent was asked by a crewing agent to look after the transfer of 8 crew from Dublin to London, where they would join a ship. This unusual request aroused the agent's suspicions and he contacted ITIC. Investigations...
An African ship agent released four containers without production of original bills of lading in exchange for four letters of indemnity apparently counter-signed by a local bank. Subsequent checks with the bank in question...
A UK ship agent inadvertently delivered a container of brand name batteries without taking the original bill of lading in exchange. After two weeks of constant pressure from the ship agent to provide the original bill of lading,...
A Scandinavian ship agent was requested by a ship owner to issue bills of lading for a cargo of new steel coils of Turkish origin which were loaded in Turkey in November 1987. The cargo was in fact rusted straight bars of...
A ship broker received a telephone call from his usual contact at a Far Eastern bank, expressing surprise at the high level of values the ship broker had placed on two ships. The broker asked for a copy of the valuations, which...
A sale and purchase broker had acted for the Scandinavian sellers of a small cruise ship. An Australian company had signed a Memorandum of Agreement but had failed to pay the deposit or take any other steps to complete the...
Members may come under pressure to collude in a fraud, particularly by issuing bills of lading which contain incorrect information, often to comply with the terms of a Letter of Credit. We mean the deliberate misdating, or...
Three containers of electrical goods worth US$380,000 were shipped from the Far East to South Africa, and from there by rail to another African country. The agent at the discharge port released all three containers to the same...
An employee of 20 years standing used the customs bond of a Belgian ship agent to smuggle consignments of T-shirts of Chinese origin into the European Union. The T-shirts, which had arrived in Belgium from China, were incorrectly...
During a routine external audit, a South American ship agent discovered that part of the freights collected from shippers on behalf of a principal had not been deposited in the agent's bank account. Subsequent investigations...