Making Freight Offers on SHIPNEXT
- Any Broker or Owner can make a Freight Offer on-line on any cargo, except their own.
- Freight Offer is copied by send to the Recipient by e-mail as well is in the relevant folder on his SHIPNEXT Cabinet (Available on the Web and SHIPNEXT Application) .
- Freight Offer remains valid for 24 hours unless declined or counter offered.
- Freight Offer may contain standard terms and conditions suggested by SHIPNEXT, as well as customary terms and conditions of each individual User.
- Freight Offers by no means oblige Cargo Owners or Brokers for a reply.
- Freight Offers (amount of freight) given through SHIPNEXT are published in the Cargo Bid on the Cargo Menu. Only Freight amount is visible. No one can see who, in fact, has offered such a Freight, except the Owners of Broker of the Cargo itself.
- Freight Offers given from several Owners are all shown in one list in the “My Cargo” > “Requests” folder.
- Freight Offer may contain Charterer’s of Owner’s Subject, which are to be reconfirmed separately prior the Fixture is made. The validity of such Subject shall be set for 24 hours, unless defined individually.
- Charterer, Owner and Broker shall be reminded to lift their Subjects 30 minutes before the time elapses.
- Freight Offers can only be based on an existing vessel or a “TBN”. However Cargo owners are advised to be careful with such offers, and are recommended to give priority to Freight Offers containing a real Ship name.
- While making a Freight Offer the Broker or Owner can review the wording of every BIMCO clause individually.
- Freight Offers can be based on any Charter Party form or a Conline Booking Note form shown in the list at the end of the terms and conditions of the Freight Offer.
- When making an Offer a Broker or Ship Owner can review the limitations in the ports relating to the cargo by clicking on their names.
- Cargo owner or Broker can reply on a Freight Offer by checking/unchecking the terms and conditions in the list, or by adding customary terms and conditions in the line below.
- Counter offer is received in the Offeror’s SHIPNEXT Cabinet (on the Web and on SHIPNEXT Application) as well as copied by e-mails.
- Contracts or Fixtures is given a SHIPNEXT Reference number.
- Contracts can be printed out or saved in a form of a Charter Party or a Conline Booking note.
- BIMCO Charter Party forms are printed with permission of BIMCO, for which SHIPNEXT pays BIMCO a fee.
- Any Charter or Fixture can be Cancelled by either party, which may result in legal consequences.
- SHIPNEXT may help with legal support, but only as a separate service. SHIPNEXT generally does not get involved in legal matters.
*** SHIPNEXT will add more features to make the service more user friendly and advanced in the near future