bill of lading

English

Noun

bill of lading (plural bills of lading)

1. (shipping) A document issued by a carrier (e.g. master of a ship or the ship owner's agent) to a shipper listing a ship's cargo, acknowledging receipt of said cargo, and specifying terms for its delivery.
   • 1908, Morley Roberts, “The Captain of the Ullswater”, in The Blue Peter:

     But all the while Captain Amos Brown was telling whackers that would have done credit to Baron Munchausen, he was really thinking of how he was to save those whose passage to a port not named in any bills of lading looked almost certain.

Translations

waybill for transport by boat

• Bulgarian: товарителница (bg) f (tovaritelnica)
• Catalan: coneixement (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 提貨單／提货单 (zh) (tíhuòdān), 提單／提单 (zh) (tídān)

• Dutch: cognossement (nl) n, beurtvaartadres (nl) n
• Finnish: konossementti, rahtikirja
• French: connaissement (fr) m
• German: Konnossement n
• Indonesian: konosemen (id), surat muatan kapal
• Irish: bille luchtaithe m
• Italian: polizza di carico f
• Japanese: 船荷証券 (ふなにしょうけん, funani shōken)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: بارنامە (ckb) (barname)

• Polish: konosament (pl)
• Portuguese: carta de porte f, conhecimento de embarque m
• Romanian: conosament (ro) n
• Russian: коноса́ме́нт (ru) m (konosámént), накладна́я (ru) f (nakladnája)
• Spanish: conocimiento de embarque m
• Welsh: bil llwytho m, derbynneb lwytho f

See also

• book of lading