What is a clean bill of lading?

　　Means, when loading the goods in apparent good order and condition, the carrier or its agent without charging or packing damage notation on bill of lading bill of lading.

　　Usually ship company bill of lading, without any bad comments, that is the bill of lading CLEAN ON BOARD b/l, general customers in the l/c will require a full set of CLEAN bill of lading, as for the bill of lading is displayed ON the CLEAN ON BOARD, the ship company basic will not display these words, but for this, each bank has a different approach, most Banks are not required to shown ON the bill of lading CLEAN ON BOARD, that is to say, they will not take without the CLEAN ON BOARD as discrepancies of documents, but some Banks will have.Parts such as the bank of China will appear this problem, generally after received the l/c application to bank confirm, they are for which whether to ask the bill of lading must show on the l/c, if required, to inform the guest that don't show the item in the documents required, at the same time told the guests.

　　How to see your LC requirements, most are FULL SETS OF MARINE CLEAN ON BOARD B/L, B/L does not need to specify the CLEAN ON BOARD "; But there are individual customer LC will ask B/L MARKED CLEAN ON BOARD, can only request must appear ON bill of lading CLEAN ON BOARD, the words!

　　Based on ISBP 79. "the Shipped in apparent good order and condition" (Shipped in apparent good order), "has been carried in ships" (Laden on board), the "clean on board" (clean on board) or other contains "shipping" (Shipped) or "on board" (" on board ") and such expressions of rhetoric and "the Shipped on board" Shipped on board ") shall be equally authentic.

　　ISBP 91. Even if the credit may require "clean on board b/l" (clean on board bill of lading) or marked "clean on board" (clean on board) bill of lading, bill of lading, also need not appear with the words "clean" (clean).