Letter of Credit Forum

quoted in '' the guide to Documentary Credit'' by Gary Collyer as follows: 

'' when freight forwarder act as contractual carrier on airshipment shipments, they sometimes group together the goods received from several different shippers and obtain a single air waybill from the air carrier covering the full loading being shipped. this docs is often referred to as the ''master air waybill ''. it is issued in favour of the forwarding companyand not in favour of the individual shippers.

the forwarder then issues its own separate air waybills in favour of each of the shippers concerned. a forwarder's air waybill of this type is often reffered to as a '' house air waybill''. for purposes of identification, the forwarder's air waybill may then indicate a number referred to in the documents as HAWB no. for internal administrative purpose, the document may also indicate a MAWB no.(ie the no. given by the air carrier to the relevant master air waybill). the fact that a document is a house air waybill does not prejudice its acceptability, provided that the forwarding agent issuing it appears to be named as the carrier, or agent of a named carrier, on the face of the document and that the air waybill has been signed in one of the way stipulated in ucp600, article 23. therefore, an air waybill  not to be rejected only because it indicates a HAWB and/or MAWB no. unless the documentary credit does not allow house air waybills''

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in my opinion, the above circumtance of air waybill is the same to that of B/L. So, artiles in ucp relating to bill of lading are also applied for house B/L.

I am looking forward to receiveing other comment on this matter.