"Bill" means this document, whether issued as a Bill of Lading or a Sea Waybill, and whether issued in paper or electronic form;
"Carriage" means the whole or any part of the operations and services whatsoever undertaken by the Carrier in respect of the Goods covered under this Bill;
"Carrier" means Ocean Network Express Pte Ltd on whose behalf this Bill has been signed;
"Container" includes any container (including an open top container), trailer, transportable tank, flat rack or pallet or any similar article used to consolidate Goods and any ancillary equipment;
"Freight" includes all charges payable to the Carrier in accordance with the applicable Tariff(s) and this Bill, including storage, demurrage and detention;
"Goods"means the whole or any part of the cargo and any packaging received from the Shipper and includes any equipment or Container not supplied by or on behalf of the Carrier;
"Hague Rules" means the provisions of the International Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules relating to Bills of Lading signed at Brussels on 25th August, 1924 and includes the amendments by the Protocols signed at Brussels in 1968, and 1979, but only if such amendments (hereinafter collectively called "the Visby Amendments") are compulsorily applicable to this Bill and nothing in this Bill shall be construed as contractually applying the Visby Amendments;
"Holder" means any person for the time being in possession of or entitled to this Bill by reason of the consignment of Goods or the endorsement of this Bill or otherwise;
"Merchant" includes the Shipper, Consignee, owner, Person owning or entitled to possession of the Goods or of this Bill, Receiver, Holder, and anyone acting on behalf of any such person, including but not limited to agents, servants, independent contractors, non-vessel operating common carriers ("NVOCCs"), and freight forwarders;
"Person" includes an individual, group, company or other entity;
"Place of Delivery" means a place so named overleaf or any other place where the Carrier has contracted to deliver the Goods when such place is other than the Port of Discharge;
"Place of Receipt" means a place so named overleaf or any other place where the Carrier has contracted to receive the Goods, when such place is other than the Port of Loading;
"Port of Loading" means a port or place so named overleaf or any other port or place where the Goods are loaded onto the Vessel for Carriage;
"Port of Discharge" means a port or place so named overleaf or any other port or place where the Goods are discharged from the Vessel;
"Sub-Contractor" includes owners, charterers and operators of the Vessel or any other vessel (other than the Carrier), sea, water, rail, road, air or other transport operators or carriers, stevedores, terminal operators, warehousemen, and any independent contractors or agents employed by the Carrier in performance of the Carriage and any subcontractor thereof;
"US COGSA" means the United States Carriage of Goods by Sea Act, 1936;
"Vessel" includes the vessel named on the face hereof, and any vessel, lighter, barge, ship, watercraft or any other means of water transport used in whole or in part for Carriage of Goods under this Bill;
"Verified Gross Mass" means the combined mass of a Container's tare mass and the masses of all packages and cargo items including but not limited to pallets, dunnage, other packing material and securing materials packed in the Container and verified by one of the methods of weighing specified in SOLAS Chapter VI Regulation 2.
"Waterborne Carriage" means carriage by sea or water, and includes the period during which the Goods are under the custody of the Carrier for the Carriage at the sea/water terminal of the Port of Loading or the Port of Discharge, whether or not on board the Vessel.
