Re: Jailed For Sending Chemicals!
The issue of freight forwarder responsibility is going to become much more serious. Not just in airfreight, maritime as well. FFs are in competition with each other to book cargo and the very nature of the business is high pressure and little time to screen. New shipper? Hurrah, there's another three tonnes for our monthly balance sheet!
The legal bottom line is that the party shown as shipper on the AWB is responsible. If there really was a FF in this case they should be put out to dry, either by fines, imprisonment or by suspension of trading rights. Draconian, yes, but there's an awfully large grey area and this particular incident is, I'm sure, only the tippetytip of the iceberg.