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  :- 1. Definitions
  :- 2. Application of these Conditions
  :- 3. Services Provided
  :- 4. Charges, Expenses and Liens
  :- 5. Liabilities
  :- 6. Time Limits, Notices
  :- 7. Jurisdiction
 

1. Definitions

In these conditions, the words and phrases below have the following meanings:-


a) "SCT" means Southampton Container Terminals Limited trading as
DP World Southampton; 

b) "Terminal" means the Container Terminal at Southampton and any land thereon or adjacent thereto leased or otherwise occupied by SCT for the purposes of the Services;

c) "Terminal Manager" means any manager duly appointed from time to time by SCT to be in charge of any operation at or on the Terminal and shall include their deputies and/or assistants;

d) "Customer" means any person to whom or on behalf of whom SCT provides any service whatsoever and any person using or entering upon the Terminal or using the Services or facilities thereof;

e) "Goods" means any cargo of whatever nature;

f) "Services" means all services and activities performed by SCT whether gratuitous or not;

g) "Equipment" means any plant, machinery, container, package, case, pallet, vehicle, trailer, truck or wagon of any description which is not owned or leased by SCT and which is not cargo;

h) "The CNS Community System" shall mean the computer system used by Shipping lines, agents, forwarders, hauliers and SCT for customs clearance and inventory control of imports and exports and any electronic data system that may succeed it. For the purposes of these Conditions, "The CNS Community System" also includes any additional electronic database or interactive services accessed via such computer system from time to time;

i) "Ship" means any vessel, container ship, barge, lighter or other vessel of any description;

j) "PIN Number" means the container security number issued by the CNS Community System or created by the Customer or the Customer's agents or employees within the CNS Community System for the release of containers;

k) "VBS" means the Vehicle Booking System into which Customers, their agents and their employees enter the details of vehicles delivering or collecting Goods to or from the Terminal;

l) Where the context permits, words in the singular shall include the plural and vice versa;

 

 

   
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