Parties involved in the transport

The enterprise which carries out the transport operation with or without a transport contract.

The consignee according to the contract for carriage; if the consignee designates a third party, that person is considered to be the consignee for the purposes of these regulations.

Plural of consignment: packages or loads of dangerous goods presented by one or several consignors.

The enterprise which consigns dangerous goods either on its own behalf or for a third party; if the carriage operation is carried out under a contract for carriage, the consignor is the consignor according to the contract.

Party that groups consignments from several consignors into a single transport unit, trip or master consignment and is responsible for the documentation of the grouped consignment.

The contractual carrier is the party that undertakes with the sender to perform the carriage; the effective carrier is the party that actually performs it, in whole or in part. Both must be identified in the consignment note and in the documents required for national carriage.

Person responsible in an undertaking whose activities include the consignment or carriage of dangerous goods by road, for helping to prevent the risks inherent in such activities; required by ADR 1.8.3.

The enterprise which consigns dangerous goods, either on its own behalf or for a third party (called consignor in ADR/IMDG and shipper in IATA).

Party appointed to represent the ship in port, which handles the documentation of the call, the declarations to the port and customs authorities and the submission of the dangerous goods manifest.