It applies to the framework volume contract and the individual shipments under that contract as specified in article 4.

Similar requirements for the transport of equipment amount to a high volume of freight shipments on a regular basis.

This right of derogation covers the individual shipments under a volume contract and the volume contract to the extent that they are subject to this Instrument under article 4.

Subject to Article 88a and notwithstanding article 3.1 (b), this Instrument applies to a volume contract to the extent that it applies to the individual shipments under the volume contract.

It was suggested that the draft instrument would not apply to volume contracts unless the draft instrument would apply to individual shipments thereunder.

Article 4 (in view of including volume service contracts) 1. Subject to article 88a, I f a volume contract covers individual shipments in liner services only , this Instrument applies to the volume contract and to each individual shipment in liner services under that volume contract in accordance with article 2 .

Conversely, the terms or stipulations of the volume contract that did not regulate individual shipments remained outside the scope of application of the draft instrument.

Owing to the high volume of cargo and following the policy of expediting foreign trade, customs inspection rate for trans shipments cargo are very low.

The growth recorded was 8.8 in industry 9.3 in construction, and 1.4 in agriculture, and the volume of shipments rose by 9.8 over those of 2002.

As to volume contracts regulating shipments exempted from the scope of application of the draft instrument (such as, for instance, when charter parties were used for the individual shipments), they would equally remain outside the scope of application of the draft instrument.

Article 4 (in view of including volume service contracts) Subject to article 88a, T his instrument applies to volume contracts in liner service to the extent that the individual shipments thereunder are subject to this Instrument in accordance with article 2.

The liner service reference for the framework volume contracts is the key in alternative C, while in alternative A the position of individual shipments is decisive on the basis of which the position of the framework volume contract is decided.

It was also suggested that the words any shipment should be substituted for the word shipments to emphasize that the provision applied to the terms that regulated each of the shipments, effected under a volume contract, that fell under the scope of application of the draft instrument.

(x) Volume contract means a contract that provides for the carriage of a specified minimum quantity of cargo in a series of shipments during an agreed period of time.

It was suggested that the following four conditions should be met before it would be possible for a volume contract, or individual shipments thereunder, to derogate from the draft instrument

Proposed redraft article 3 (3) was intended to bring volume contracts within the scope of application of the draft instrument on the basis of individual shipments performed under such contracts.

The purpose of subparagraph (b) was to make it clear that only those terms of the volume contract governing individual shipments fell under the scope of application of the draft instrument.

(x) Volume contract means a contract that provides for the carriage of a specified minimum quantity of cargo by sea in a series of shipments during an agreed period of time.

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However, it was also observed that the use of the words any shipment could generate misunderstanding since only some terms of the volume contract might be subject to the draft instrument, for example in the case of a volume contract that mixes international and domestic shipments.

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Issue 1 Should OLSAs be included within the scope of application of the draft instrument as volume contracts, the inclusion of which would be determined by the character of the individual shipments thereunder?

4. The right of derogation under this article applies to the terms that regulate shipments under the volume contract to the extent these terms are subject to this Instrument under Article 3 (3)(a).

Article 88a makes the Instrument non mandatory for individual shipments that fall under the Instrument and that are under a volume contract provided that the preconditions set out in article 88a have been fulfilled.

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(b) subject to Article 4, volume contracts, contracts of affreightment, and similar contracts providing for the future carriage of goods in a series of shipments, whether used in connection with liner services or not and

(b) subject to Article 4, volume contracts, contracts of affreightment, and similar contracts providing for the future carriage of goods in a series of shipments, whether used in connection with liner services or not and

Five shipments had been allowed through prior to the 2008 09 Gaza War, but all shipments following the war were blocked by Israel.

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The word only in article 4(1) indicates the possible need to exclude from the Instrument mixed framework volume contracts where individual shipments might be fixed in liner service or be based on voyage chartering, etc.