IDENTITY AND DEFINITION OF CARRIER
Orient Overseas Container Line Limited is the only Carrier herein. "Orient Overseas Container Line" and "OOCL" are trade names for transportation provided by the Carrier.
If it is ultimately adjudged that a second person or entity, including without limitation, the Vessel, her owner, operator, demise, time, slot and space charterer and/or another member of an alliance and/or consortium and/or joint arrangement of which the Carrier may be a member, is also a carrier/bailee then that person or entity shall have the benefit of all the rights and defenses provided for in this Bill of Lading or by law.
Notice is hereby given that Carrier is a member of alliances and/or consortia and/or joint arrangements. The members of such groups, including Carrier, reserve the right to carry cargo for each other, and otherwise cooperate with each other in the carriage of cargo, without notice to the Merchant. In the case of such carriage, however, the terms and conditions of this Bill of Lading shall apply, and the Merchant shall be bound by them and Carrier shall be deemed in all instances to be the Carrier of the Goods, subject to the terms and conditions of this Bill of Lading.