Transshipment involves transferring cargo from one carrier or vessel to another while in transit. It usually occurs at transport hubs. The document outlines the procedures for obtaining a transshipment permit, which involves lodging the permit application, submitting shipping documents, and paying bonds. It also discusses shipside permits that allow cargo to be discharged directly to lighters or barges, subject to conditions like remaining under guard. Reasons for transshipment include practical limitations that prevent any single carrier from serving all ports directly.

1. Transshipment and Shipside
Everything about transshipment and shipside including
procedures.

2. Transshipment

3. Transfer of a shipment from one carrier, or more commonly, from one
vessel to another whereas in transit.
Transshipment usually takes place
in transport hubs. Much international
transshipment also takes place in
designated customs area.

4. Procedure

5. •Lodges Transshipment Permit to Bonds
Division, Port of Manila
•Submits copy of Bill of Lading / Airways bill
•Bonds to entry goods to CBW
•Authority to release/ transfer, by CBW operator
•(accredited member).
Validates sufficiency of bonds filed
Process chargeable bonds to cover
estimated D/T
Transfers Transshipment Permit to
Operating Division
Importer/
Broker
Bonds Division

6. Receives Transshipment Permit from
Bonds Division
Records the Transshipment Permit
number and other details to the central
logbook of the Account Officer
Transshipment Permit- signed and
transmitted by the Chief, Operating
Division to Deputy Collector for
Operations.
Prepares Mission order and assign
CBW guard
Operating
division
 Checks the Transshipment Permit and its attachments
 Transmit the Transshipment Permits to EPD for
segregation of copies and payment to telegrams and to
the Piers Inspection Division for preparation of boat
note
 Processes transshipment Permit for final
delivery/release to CBW Operator
DEPUTY COLLECTOR FOR
OPERATIONS
NAIA/MICP/POM

7. Receives and checks the shipments covered by
Transshipment Permit
Files a corresponding warehousing entry
Stripping of the container shall be conducted in the
presence of the Customs Examiner and the CBW
Operator
CBW
WAREHOUSEMAN/
CBW OPERATOR

8. Application for Registration

10. Sea Transport Hub
Black Sea Port

11. Air Transport Hub
FEDEX Memphis, Tennessee City, USA

12. Air Transport Hub
DHL Leipzig, Germany

13. Required Documents:
1. Transit Manifest separate triplicate shall be presented by each carrier.
2. Transshipment Permit
3. . Certified photo copy of Bill of Lading or Air Waybill
4. Domestic Bill of Lading /AWB
5. Carrier’s Bond – CAO 1-89
–Bonding of Common & Land Carriers and CMO 27-89 dated March 1,
1989 General Bond for Land Carriers / Common Carrier
6. Telegram/radiogram to the port of destination for advice of
transshipment
7. Optional for South Harbor /MICP/ NAIA Plus:
SBMA Transshipment Declaration or SBMA Form C, if you are at the Port of
Subic
8. VTS – ICD – ATI Vehicle Tracking System

14. d. Other requirements:
1. Boat note
2. PID Customs Guard to under guard the cargo/conduction guard
3. Receipt of transshipment (Port of Destination)
4. Overtime / Conduction Fee (CAO 3-91 dated January 22, 1991)

15. Why does cargo need to be transshipped..??
In any service operated by any line there are practical
restrictions in terms of coverage of ports.. There is no shipping
line that can cover all ports around the world on a single
service and therefore the services are segregated into trade
lanes..

16. Lets say there is a liner service that connects Durban to
Far East with Singapore, Hong Kong, Port Kelang being
the ports of call on the voyage from South Africa to Far
East.. Lets call this vessel A..
Lets say that there is a shipment from Durban in South
Africa to Manila in Philippines.. Since this vessel A does
not call Manila as part of its rotation/service, the
container(s) will need to be taken off at one of the ports
that vessel A calls.. Lets assume that this port is
Singapore.. These container(s) will be off-loaded at
Singapore and then loaded onto another vessel that
operates on a route that connects Singapore to
Manila..Lets call this vessel B..

17. Example of Trade lanes
Example : South Africa to South East Asia, South Africa to
Europe, South Africa to USA, South East Asia to Far East,
Far East to USA, USA to Europe etc..

18. So the container that
left Durban on vessel
A will reach Manila
on vessel B via
transshipment at
Singapore.. The bill
of lading that the
customer has been
issued will show
Vessel A, but the
arrival notification
that the consignee in
Manila receives will
show Vessel B..
Oldendorff Carriers Trinidad Ltd, a 72-year-old German
family-owned transshipment company.

19. Coal unloading With Transshipper "ISKEN" at Iskenderun Bay, Turkey.

20. When?
1. When the Inward Foreign Manifest clearly states that the cargo is destined for a
local port other than the port of discharge
2. A supplementary or additional Manifest is submitted within 24 hours from the
time the carrying vessel is boarded showing that a particular cargo is destined for
a local port other than the port of discharge
3. Section 1005
4. importer files a constructive warehousing entry for immediate transportation
under bond

21. SHIPSIDE
PERMIT

22. It is a written authority to discharged cargoes to shipside unto
lighter/barge as per order of the Collector of Customs (Attention:
Deputy Collector for Operations). The permit shall be forwarded
directly to the Customs Inspector onboard the carrying vessel.
Passengers Boarded from
Lighters

23. Vessel crossing San Francisco Bay accompanied by lighter.

24. Several conditions are imposed in this permit such as :
1. That cargo discharged from vessel to lighter / barge shall be under guarded
continuously.
2. That the loaded lighter/ barge shall be towed to the designated barge pool area
pursuant to CMO no. 36-83.
3. That the release of cargo shall be allowed only upon presentation of duly approved
BOC Import Entry and Internal Revenue Declaration.
4. That the cargoes unloaded from the vessel to the lighter/ barge must tally with the
cargoes mentioned in this Permit and Inward Foreign Manifest as to the descriptions, weight
and quantity.
The Customs Inspector assigned on a vessel who allows the discharge of cargoes
at shipside shall comply strictly with the conditions and/or requirements stated in the
shipside permit. The Customs Inspector must issued a Boat note (BOC Permit No. 36)
indicating the following information, to wit:

25. 1. Name of vessel, date of arrival and Registry Numbers
2. Name of lighter/barge
3. Name of Broker and/or Consignee
4. Shipside Permit numbers
5. Marks and Numbers
6. Kinds and description of cargo
7. Time and date the lighter/barge left the vessel
8. Names and signatures of Customs Inspector, Customs Guard(s) in charge of the
lighter.