1. Definitions
Agreement means these Terms and Conditions, together with any Authority and Customer credit application.
Authority means any authority by which the Customer appointed the Company to act on its behalf.
Carriage means carriage by vehicles and conveyances of all kinds, including acts in furtherance of an act of carriage by another or a specific means, whether by air, sea or land transport, or any combination of such transport modes.
Carrier means any party involved in the Carriage of Goods, whether by air freight, sea freight or land transport.
Company means Beyond Borders Express P/L ABN 82 139 354 591 and its nominees, agents and employees.
Convention means any application international convention, including the national implementation of that convention, that applies to the global transport of goods including without limitation the provisions of the International Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules relating to Bills of Lading signed at Brussels on 25th August, 1924 (and includes the amendments by the Protocols signed at Brussels in 1968 and 1979, but only if the amendments are compulsorily applicable to this agreement and nothing in this agreement shall be construed as contractually applying those amendment), the Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules for International Carriage by Air, done at Montreal on 28 May 1999 and the Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules Relating to International Carriage by Air, signed at Warsaw, 12 October 1929; that Convention as amended at The Hague on 28 September 1955; that Convention as amended at The Hague 1955 and by Montreal Protocol No. 1, 2, or 4 (1975) as the case may be.
Consequential Loss means any loss or damage which:
(a) does not arise naturally or in the usual course of things; or
(b) constitutes, or arises from or in connection with, a loss in revenue, profit or opportunity or a loss of goodwill or business reputation, even if such loss or damage arises naturally or in the usual course of things.
Customer means:
(a) Where there is an Authority, the customer named in the Authority, including its employees, officers, agents and contractors.
(b) Where there is no Authority, the entity instructing the Company to provide the Services.
Dangerous Goods means any Goods which are, or may become, hazardous, volatile, explosive, flammable, radioactive, likely to harbour or encourage vermin or pests, or capable of posing a risk or causing damage to any person or property.
Fees means the Company's fees for the Services as set out in any quotation, rates schedule, tariff or as otherwise notified to the Customer, disbursements, taxes and any other amounts payable under these Terms and Conditions.
Force Majeure Event means anything outside of the reasonable control of a party including, without limitation, fire, flood, drought, storm (or other adverse weather conditions), lightening, act of God, peril of sea or air, explosion, radioactive or chemical contamination, sabotage, accident, embargo or trade restriction, blockade, labour dispute, strike or shortage, civil commotion, curfew, act of war, actual or threatened act of terrorism, pressure waves caused by aircraft or other devices, meteorites, epidemic, pandemic, the act of an Authority or Law to contain a pandemic or epidemic, plague, quarantine.
Goods means the goods, including packaging, pallets or containers, the subject of the Services.
Government Authority means any government agency, authority, department or body, exercising jurisdiction in any nation, state, port or airport.
Heavy Vehicle National Law means any Commonwealth or State law or regulation relating to chain of responsibility, including laws and regulations relating to driver fatigue, fatigue management, vehicle mass and dimension, vehicle maintenance, loading requirements (including load restraint), speed management, towing and coupling requirements, vehicle permits, transport documentation for goods, container weight declarations and dangerous goods and any other laws regulating the road transport of goods by heavy vehicles.
Loss means any loss, cost, damage, expense, claim, demand, action, proceeding or liability of any kind (including legal fees on an indemnity basis).
Owner means the owner, importer or exporter of the Goods, or a person authorised to act on behalf of the owner or importer of the Goods.
PPSA means the Personal Property Securities Act 2009 (Cth).
Related Company means a related body corporate within the meaning of section 50 of the Corporations Act 2001.
Services means the work performed by the Company in relation to the Goods, whether as agent or principal, including facilitating the import, export, transport, or storage of the Goods; and any ancillary acts for those purposes, including preparing any documentation or providing any information to a Government Authority.
Subcontractor means a third party (and their employees, agents and contractors) engaged by the Company to provide all or part of the Services.
Transport Document includes a bill of lading, waybill, consignment note, or similar carriage document.