Responsibility For Completion
The AWB as we have seen is a contract - an agreemeent between the shipper and the carrier. The agent only acts as an intermediary between the shipper and carrier. The air waybill is also a contract of good faith. This means that the shipper will be responsible for the haul also be liable for all the damage suffered by the airline or any person due to irregularity, incorrectness or incompleteness of insertions on the air waybill, even if the air waybill has been completed by an agent or the carrier on his behalf.
When the shipper signs the AWB or issues the letter of instructions he simultaneously confirms his agreement to the conditions of contract.
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