Prohibited & Restricted Items for Shipment

Things to be taken care of
To ensure safe, legal, and efficient shipping, we maintain strict policies on certain goods. Below is a comprehensive guide on items you cannot ship, restricted items, and best practices to comply with regulations.
- Applicability: The provision set out and referred to in this consignment note shall apply to transportation through any mode and shall not be restricted to one mode of transport only.
Definitions
- Our company
- Customer mean and includes sender, shipper, consignor, consignee and/or his/her authorized representatives.
- Delivery - means tender of shipment to the customer or intimation about arrival of the shipment at the destination.
- Freight - means the basic freight only and it excludes the other components like taxes and other levies.
- Mode of Transport: We are entitled to use any mode and route for transportation.
- Contract: The docket or Air Way Bill is a contract between our company and customer or by our company on behalf of the consignor/shipper.
- Acceptance of Terms and Conditions: By giving us your shipment you accept our terms and conditions set out in the consignment note and/or the contract of carriage and/or the contract for the performance of other services on behalf of yourself and/or anyone else who has an interest in the shipment or the performance of other services irrespective of whether you have signed the front of our consignment note or not. Our terms and conditions also cover and can be invoked by anyone we use or sub-contract to collect, transport, deliver your shipment or perform other services as well as our employees, directors and agents. Only one of our authorized officers may agree to a variation of these terms and conditions in writing. When you give us the shipment with oral or written instructions that conflict with our terms and conditions we shall not be bound by such instructions.
- Said to Contain Basis: All the consignment shall be booked on "said to contain basis" i.e. our company shall be under no obligation to verify the description and contents of the shipment declared by the Consignor/Shipper on the docket/Invoice and as such the consignor shall undertake and ensure to make correct and factual declaration on the docket/Airway bill. However our company reserve the right to inspect and/or refuse consignor. Consignor shall not book, handover any shipment consisting of prohibited, restricted or dangerous products and our company shall not be liable for any such shipment. Consignor indemnified and would keep indemnified our company its owners and employees against all claims, losses, charges and expenses incurred by our due to any banned, restricted or dangerous items entering in to the network of the our company due to any commission or commission of Consignor.
- Prohibited Items: The currency, bearer cheques, hundies, bearer bilty and/or similar other documents, Gold, Silver, jewellery, Precious stones, Liquid, Semi Liquid perishable/fragile goods narcotics and / or any item which are prohibited and/or restricted by statutory law and acts are strictly not accepted by us. If such articles are enclosed without our information, the Company/Franchisee will not be liable for the same and no claim shall be entertained for such articles.
- Limitation of Liability: case of loss, theft, damage and mishandling of booked Consignment the company will not be liable for any reimbursement to the consignor/ shipper/consignee.
- Insurance: a) Our company advises the customer /shipper to insure the goods handed over to company for transportation under the consignor insurance. b) All the high value shipment (above Rupees Five Thousand) and Fragile Shipment should be insured by the Consignor while booking, if any such shipment booked uninsured in such cases, in the event of lost/damages or theft of such shipment the Company/Franchisee will not be liable at all to reimburse to the customer.
- Law and Jurisdiction: This contract shall be governed and construed in accordance with the law of India and all disputes and claims are subject to the exclusive and irrevocable jurisdiction of Courts in Anand 388001 Gujarat only and no other court shall have jurisdiction.
Documentation:
- Proper and completed documentation by the customer is compulsory required along with accurate details of the shipper/receiver's name, address, telephone Nos,, email-id and forms, waybills, invoices etc. as per the statutory requirements.
- Our company shall not be made responsible /liable in case of any deficiency in the documents/statutory requirements and no claim or grievance of nature and which is wrongly declared by the customer /shipper OR in case of seizure by any government authority due to improper and incomplete documentation as a result other shipment(s) also get delayed resulting in a loss to our company
- Our company shall not be liable for any kind of damages to the goods caused due to improper and defective packaging of goods, loss of goods or goods damaged or loss in transit or by any circumstances beyond our control such as Acts of God including earthquakes, cyclones, storms, flooding, fire, disease, fog, snow or frost on other natural calamities or disasters. Force mature including ( but not limited to)war accidents, act of public enemies, strikes, embargoes, peril, local disputes or civil commotion etc.
Statutory payments:
- The customers are solely responsible for all payments if any, levied by the government or any statutory body etc. Such as Octroi /entry Tax, service tax/value added tax or any other tax levied from time to time. \
- In the event of any shipment being held up by any statutory authority such as but not limited to Commercial Tax/Custom, entry tax etc. Our company shall not be responsible for any kind of consequential loss/freight refund. Farther the customer has agreed to make good the loss to our company in case of any claims being lodge on our company by Statutory authorities due to insufficient documents or wrongful declaration by the customer/shipper/consignor
- Right to entrust: The company reserves the right to entrust the goods to any other carrier. The Company/Franchisee will not be liable for any delay, damage or loss-during its transit through other carrier of situation
- Lien: Our company shall have a general lien over all the consignments of the customer towards any dues payable to our company by the customer.
Claims:
- No claim shall be entertained by our company for any loss or shortage/damage/non-delivery/breakage/leakages/pilferage etc. of the consignment.
- Our company shall not entertain any claims arising due to delay in delivery of consignment for any reason.
- In case Loss of Shipment only USD 100 will be claimed including Shipment charges
- In case if the shipment is hold by customs at the consignee country and if the customs do not release the shipment or the merchandise is discarded by the custom authority no claim will paid to the shipper/consignor or consignee.
- Chargeable Weight:1) Every shipment shall be charged by its chargeable weight i.e. the actual weight or the volumetric weight whichever is high. 2) Volumetric weight of the shipment in Kg. is its gross cubic cms. i.e. Length x Breadth x Height divided by 5000.
Exclusions:
- We will not be liable for any loss of income, loss of profits, loss of order damages or loss how so ever arising including without limitation breach of contract, negligence, willful act or default.
We are not liable if we do not fulfill any obligations towards you at all as a result of Circumstances beyond our control such as (but not limited to):
- Acts of god including earthquakes, cyclones, storms, flooding, fire, disease, fog, snow or frost or other natural calamities or disasters;
- Force mature including (but not limited to) war, accidents, acts of public enemies, strikes, embargoes, peril, local disputes or civil commotions etc.;
- Change of address: Subsequent to booking of a consignment if the consignor makes any changes in the address or any other changes, additional charges shall be levied as a result of such a change, as decided by the company.
- Return to Origin(RTO): If the customer/Consignee do not take delivery of the shipment for any reason whatsoever. Our company shall intimate to the customer/consignor and upon request of the consignor our company shall return the shipment and raise the bills on the consignor towards the transportation and other charges including transport charges in accordance with the terms of the contract and the customer shall be liable to pay all dues payable to our Company whether at the original booking station or elsewhere as notified by our company.
- Rules of Govt. As per rules of Government of India any shipment sent by sender/shipper shall not exceed Rs 25000/-per consignment. Any shipment booked by individual to individual is treated as a gift send by the shipper/consignor to the consignee or the receiver.
- Arbitration: In case of any dispute or difference arising out of or in relation to this docket shall be referred to a sole arbitrator appointed by our company governed under the provisions of Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 as are in force and any amendment thereto from time to time. The Arbitration shall be conducted in English language and the venue of ANAND Gujarat only. The award of the Arbitrator shall be final and binding upon both the parties.
Be Cautious with:
- Currency
- Indian Postal Articles
- Liquids & Semi-liquids
- Philately Items
- Pornography
- Bullion
- Drugs and Narcotics
- Firearms, parts thereof and ammunition
- Precious & Semi-Precious Items
- Radioactive Material
- Commodities banned by Law at any given time without prior notice
- All IATA Restricted Items and Dangerous goods
- Electronic and Electrical Products and Spare Parts with battery source