Talk:Manifest

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I do some transport and I find an horrible mistake on this article:

Manifest
"In the transport or logistics industry, a bill of lading."

A bill of lading prove that you are the owner of a shipment and it has a kind of commercial value (please see the definition of that word). This document is only used by seafreight.

A manifest is used on every kind of transport (sea, road, air). It only gives to the transporter some information about the goods (weight, king of good, date of delivery, ...). This document don't mean you are the owner of the shipment and it hasn't any comercial value.

So a manifest is like a packing list but it will never be a bill of lading. I correct it right now.

Orphiliae (talk) 14:36, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

PS : Sorry for mistakes(gramar, vocabulary), but I am french and I don't write english very well