6.1. Receipt of export cargo.

6.1.1. The basis for the receipt of cargo at the TERMINAL is a ticket/bill of lading issued for the cargo by the corresponding forwarding agent and approved for transport by the ship owner.

The Client shall, on the basis of a correctly drafted bill of lading (ticket) submitted to the TERMINAL’s permits department, be issued a single entry (cargo entry) permit.

6.1.2. After completing the customs formalities, the Client shall submit the cargo and the accompanying documents to the warehouse employees, who shall perform the inspection of the cargo, prepare the corresponding legal instruments, issue an entry order (2 copies) and direct the cargo to the storage area.

6.1.3. After the unloading of the cargo, the representative of the TERMINAL (tallyman) shall take one copy of the entry order, and shall return the second, together with a comment concerning the receipt of the cargo, to the Client.

6.1.4. The Client shall return the second copy of the entry order to the accounting group and shall receive an exit order from the TERMINAL, as well as a comment in the accompanying documents concerning the relinquishment of the cargo.

6.1.5. When passing through the TERMINAL’s internal security checkpoints, the Client is required to present the security guards with a corresponding permit (entry order), but must return the exit permit upon leaving the territory of the TERMINAL.

6.2. Issuing of import cargo.

6.2.1. Clients who continually receive cargo through the TERMINAL are required once quarterly to present to the TERMINAL letters of guarantee with a guarantee of payment for the services of the TERMINAL.

6.2.2. In order to receive import cargo, the Client is required to submit to the permits office of the TERMINAL a bill of lading (ticket) and the operating order issued to him by the forwarding agent.

Operating orders concerning cargoes brought to the TERMINAL on the ships of Eesti Merelaevandus are generally issued by the shipping ticket booking centre of the shipping company.

6.2.3. The permits office issues a permit of passage to the TERMINAL’s territory after the verification in the warehouse of the existence of the required cargo.

6.2.4. The Client shall present to the accounting group a bill of lading (ticket), operating order, authorisation for the receipt of the cargo and the identity document of the recipient of the cargo.

6.2.5. If the Client is receiving cargo from the TERMINAL for the first time, then in addition to the above documents the Client must submit a letter of guarantee concerning payment for the TERMINAL’s services or, by request of the latter, pay for those services in cash at the TERMINAL’s cash department.

6.2.6. After the inspection of the submitted documents, the Client shall be issued an exit slip in triplicate, which shall serve as a permit of passage to the loading area.

In the cargo receipt zone the Client shall confirm with his signature the fact of the receipt of the cargo from the TERMINAL. The copy of the exit slip bearing the Client’s signature shall be left in the loading area with the TERMINAL employee who issued the cargo.

The Client shall take the two remaining copies of the exit slips to customs and perform the customs formalities, and the customs official shall indicate the number of the customs declaration on the bill of lading (on the ticket) or the exit slip.

6.2.7. The Client shall present the other two remaining exit slips to the accounting group and if necessary pay for the services of the TERMINAL.

For the export of cargo from the territory of the TERMINAL, the Client shall be issued one copy of the exit slip with the warehouse’s and accounting group’s comment concerning the payments made (remains in the possession of the Client thereafter), as well as a materials permit, which shall be given to the guard upon exiting the TERMINAL.

6.2.8. In the event of the transhipment of cars through the TERMINAL, the Client is, upon arrival of the ship at the post, required to submit the following to employees of the Border Guard:

In the absence of such documents at the time of the unloading of the ship, the cargo shall be returned to the ship, but the Client is required to compensate all costs connected with the reloading of the car onto the ship.

6.2.9. In the transhipment of excise cargo through the TERMINAL, the Client is required to perform customs formalities and order a truck convoy. The cargo will be issued only after the performance of all of the terms and conditions established by the customs inspection bodies and the regulations.