Sentence examples for consignee from inspiring English sources

Expediting is an attempt to have a specific shipment move faster than normal through the carrier's system because it is needed immediately by the consignee.

Subject to these contractual terms, the consignee (the person to whom the goods are being shipped) may, by virtue of the bill of lading, demand delivery of the transported goods at the port of destination.

A packing list is placed in each carton of assorted merchandise by the person packing it; and upon receipt the consignee verifies both the count of freight on the carrier's waybill and the packing list's entries for each carton.

In the simplest case the consignor sends the bill of lading by airmail to the consignee so that the latter may claim the goods on the arrival of the ship.

They are not on the payroll of the shipper, consignee, or pier-owner.

The American consignee, nervous about shipping risks, wrote a letter suggesting that the boilers be sent over in separate vessels.

"They stand there," said the traffic manager of the Merchants Associationn, in a plea to the Interstate Commerce Commission, "between the consignee's truck and the freight platform, and with the banner of God in one hand and an iron pipe in the other, defy you to take away your own freight".

This is to prevent the shippers and consignees from using the carriers' equipment as warehouses.

A second letter warned the consignees not to take it for granted that the colonists would remain "irreconcilable to the idea of spilling human blood".

Prices are set by the individual consignees and are determined by a strange combination of weather reports, fishermen's gossip and the prices at the neighboring stalls.