Reexamining the relationship between containerization and bill of lading

With reference to the particular features of Chinese booking routines,this article reexamined the impacts of booking note upon interconnections of parties concerned and concluded that booking note would create at the best a contract to arrange carriage or contract for carriage rather than contract of carriage.It was further proposed that the function of B/L as evidence of antecedent contract be reevaluated where it was admitted that issuance of B/L should concur with formation of contract of carriage as a result of performance of the arrangements based on booking note.