Qatar Trade Law No. 27/2006 Monday, 25 April 2011 18:56

The seller is bound to pack and ship the goods on the ship designated by the buyer in a time or within the time limit designated for shipment.

The seller shall bear the expenses of packaging, examination or weight or measurement or counting necessary for the shipment of goods.

The seller shall notify the buyer without delay about the shipment of the goods and send the documents to prove the same. The buyer has to bear the expenses of notification and transmission of documents.

The seller at his expense shall manage to get the export permit and all procedures for the shipment of goods.

If the buyer asks to provide a certificate that proves the origin of the goods, then the seller is committed to get it and provide the same for him.

The seller has to provide all help necessary to enable the buyer to get a bill of loading and other documents issued in the country of shipment, which may be required by the buyer to import the goods to the country of destination or transit it through another country as well as he shall provide all necessary assistance to enable the buyer to refer to the carrier in the proceedings arising from the contract of carriage. The buyer shall bear the risk and expenses of it.

The seller shall bear all the expenses necessary for the shipment of the goods, as he shall bear the risk that may cause the goods some damage until the moment in which, during its shipment, ship’s rail passes. The buyer has to bear the damage after that and the due expenses in this regard.

If the buyer didn’t notify the seller about the name of the ship in an appropriate time or reserved the right to set the period for delivery of the goods or to determine the port of loading as well as he did not issue the specific instructions during that period, then he is committed to the additional expenses arising from it and bear the risk of what could cause the goods the damage from the expiry date agreed upon for delivery, provided that the sold goods may be fixed per se.

If the ship got late until after the expiration of the period designated for shipment, or could not ship the goods during that period for compelling reasons, then the buyer shall be committed to bear the additional expenses arising from it and bear the risk of what could cause the goods the damage from the expiry date designated for the shipment, provided that the sold goods may be fixed per se.

The sale at the port of arrival

The sale at arrival is a sale in which the goods are received at the port of destination agreed upon and the seller shall be responsible for the destruction of the goods after the shipment. The contracts shall include the conditions that make the execution of the contract to be bound with the arrival of the ship intact or the buyer has the option to accept the goods as desired or as per the model that was delivered to him.

The convention of carriage is a convention whereby the carrier is committed to carry the goods or people from one place to another fixed place for a known wage.

With the exception of maritime transport the provisions of this chapter shall be applied to all types of transport, whatever the status of the carrier, taking into account the provisions set forth in special laws on certain types of transport and the provisions of international transport agreements in which the State is a party.