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UPDATE

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UPDATE
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ediForwarder
7 February 2012
Shipping Line/Airline Agents as Creditors on Consols

Summary
In various countries or individual ports, shipping lines and airlines can be represented by different
agencies. Although the bookings and consolidations are made with the carriers, often forwarders
are dealing with their agents locally and are invoiced by the agents instead of the carriers.
It is now possible to nominate different agencies per Carrier Organization per country or per port
that will automatically default as agents to Consolidations as Creditors.
The agents will be calculated from the Carrier organization from export or import ports/countries
depending on the Consols payment term (prepaid or collect respectively).

Description
Refer to Admin > System > Reference Files > Organization, Carrier Organization, Port Related
Parties section, Carrier > Agencies tab.
Agency organizations can be nominated by location (port or country).

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Refer to Operations > Forwarding > Consolidations.

Consol payment term, prepaid or collect,


(refer to Consol > Details > Payment field)
determines defaulting of the correct origin
or destination carrier agency to the Creditor
field.
Export prepaid and import collect consols
that previously defaulted the creditor field to
the carrier (shipping line), now default the
creditor field to the carriers agent if it exists
for a corresponding port or country. If it
does not exist, the creditor field will default
to the carrier (shipping line).

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Examples:
1. Export consol from AUSYD to NZAKL.
CARTESSYD carrier has TESSHISYD agency in AUSYD, and TESAUCAKL in NZ.
If the consol term is prepaid, the creditor will default to TESSHISYD (the agency for the first load
port):

2. Export consol from AUSYD to NZAKL.


CARTESTSYD carrier does not have an agent entered for AUSYD. The system will then check if
there are any agents entered for the country AU. If not, the creditor will default to the
CARTESSYD.
3. Import consol from AUSYD to NZAKL.
If the consol term is collect, the creditor will be calculated from the last discharge port, NZAKL, but
since we dont have an agency in NZAKL, the system will match the agency by the country, NZ.
i.e. the agency (creditor) representing CARTESSYD will be defaulted to TESAUCAKL:

Note: An organization (sending/receiving agent, carrier or carrier agent) can only be


defaulted as a Creditor if that organization is flagged as Payables.

Contact Information
If you have a question on this update note, contact us: within ediEnterprise, go to Help > Customer Service Request
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CargoWise Reference: 20120207_V3 / WI00025041

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