STANDARD TRADING CONDITIONS

DEFINITIONS

• Company: FFC International Company Limited.
• Conditions: The entire undertakings, terms, conditions and Clauses herein.
• Consignee: The person to whom the Goods are consigned.
• Customer: Any person at whose request or on whose behalf the Company undertakes any business or provides advice, information or services.
• Dangerous Goods: Goods, substances, materials, or articles as statutorily defined in the laws of Hong Kong or in any applicable national laws or international conventions or regulations from time to time in force as dangerous goods and including goods of a dangerous, explosive, inflammable, radioactive or damaging nature.
• HBL: A Bill of Lading or Waybill (air or sea or railway or road) covering the carriage of Goods, and includes a Combined Transport Bill of Lading.
• Goods: The objects of the services provided hereunder.
• Owner: The Owner of the Goods (including any packaging, containers, or equipment) to which any business concluded under these conditions relates and any other person who is or may become interested in them.
• Person: Includes natural person(s) or any body or bodies corporate.
• Services: The services provided by the Company either as principal or as agent, including undertaking and arranging carriage of goods by air, sea, railway and/or road.
• Special Arrangements: Arrangements made in accordance with express instructions, in writing, previously received and accepted in writing by the Company.
• Transport Units: Any container, trailer, flat, tanker, packing case, pallet, and any other device used for and in connection with the carriage and/or consolidation of Goods by air, sea, railway or road, and any equipment ancillary thereto.

APPLICATION

All and any activities of the Company undertaken in the course of business whether gratuitous or not are provided subject to these Conditions which are deemed to be incorporated in any agreement between Company and Customer.

THE COMPANY’S DISCRETION

• (a) If at any stage in any transaction the Company should reasonably consider that there is good reason in the Customer’s interests or for the public good to depart from any of the Customer’s instructions, the Company shall be permitted to do so and shall not incur any additional liability in consequence of so doing.
• (b) When using its discretion as permitted in these Conditions, the Company shall do so with due regard to the interests of the Customer.
• (c) If after an agreement has been agreed events or circumstances come to the attention of the Company which in the opinion of the Company make it wholly or in part impossible for the Company to fulfil its duties it shall take reasonable steps based on contacting details provided by the Customer to inform the Customer of such events or circumstances.
• (d) Quotations are given on the basis of immediate acceptance and are subject to withdrawal or revision. Unless otherwise agreed in writing the Company shall be, after acceptance, at liberty to revise quotations or charges with or without notice in the event of changes outside the Company’s control occurring in currency exchange rates, rates of freight, insurance premiums or any charges applicable to the Goods.
• (e) The Customer shall give sufficient and executable instructions, and the Company shall, within the limits of its duty of care and diligence, inform the Customer if it considers that the Customer’s instructions are insufficient or inexecutable.

THE CUSTOMER’S UNDERTAKINGS

(a) The Customer warrants that it is either the Owner or the authorized agent of the Owner of any Goods...