Course 09 of 20 · Agricultural Commodities Desk Academy

Quality, Weight & Shortfall Claims

Stage B, Execution, storage and funding. Level 4 of 10.

Post-delivery dispute resolution: sampling and analysis certificates, independent surveyors, allowances and rejections, arbitration routes, and quantifying and recovering a weight or quality shortfall.

129 chapters · 11 modules · every chapter one 8 to 10 minute explainer · builds on: Course 02, Course 06, Course 08

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How a chapter is delivered

One chapter is one idea taken to the point of use

Each chapter covers one idea to the point where you can use it, and comes two ways: a narrated explainer, and a deep dive audio discussion of around thirty minutes that works the same material at depth.

Self-paced throughout, and the same chapters can be taught as a cohort. Chapters run in order: each one assumes only what the chapters before it taught, and capability belonging to a later course is named and deferred rather than half-covered.

Curriculum

11 modules · 129 chapters

Open any module for its full chapter list, in teaching order.

M0 The Discharged Cargo and the Money Still Owed Ch 1-11
  1. The Bill of Lading Tonnage and the Silo Intake Figure
  2. Three Shortfalls One Bulk Discharge Can Produce
  3. One Figure of Money Actually Received
  4. Grade Factors Assumed, Not Reopened
  5. The Contract Form, the Factor Limits and the Credit Already Agreed
  6. Discharge Completed, Hatches Open, Grain Into Store
  7. Who Serves a Grain Claim and Who Has to Answer It
  8. The Mill's Seat and the Shipper's Seat on One Outturn
  9. One Cargo at One Fixed Price per Tonne
  10. Why the Weighbridge Total Arrives Before the Protein Result
  11. The Route From Hatch Survey to Recovered Tonnes
M1 Direction on an Elevator Settlement Sheet Ch 12-21
  1. A Discount Schedule Bites on the Seller and a Premium Pays It
  2. Dockage Screened Out, Dockage Paid For and Dockage Claimed
  3. The Settlement Sheet Read for Which Way Each Line Moves
  4. Choosing the Respondent When a Cargo Passed Through Four Hands
  5. An Unfamiliar Grade Adjustment Clause Tested for Who Pays
  6. Driving a Protein Result to Both Ends of the Scale
  7. Our Deduction and Their Missing Tonnes
  8. Why Splitting the Difference Hides Who Funded It
  9. The Direction Pass Run Across a Settled Cargo File
  10. A Warehouse Receipt Holder Claiming Against the Elevator
M2 Weighing a Bulk Grain Outturn Ch 22-33
  1. Converting the Contract Weight Basis Into Payable Tonnes
  2. Draft Survey as a Quantity Measurement
  3. The Receiving Silo Scale and the Certified Weigher
  4. Belt Scale Running Totals Against Hopper Scale Batches
  5. Weighing Grain in Rail Cars, on Trucks and in Barges
  6. Grain That Dried in the Hold and Weighed Less at Intake
  7. The Natural Loss Allowance on an Ocean Passage
  8. Sweepings, Hold Residues and the Cargo Left Aboard
  9. Overage: The Cargo That Outturned Heavier Than Its Documents
  10. What a Discharge Weight Certificate Leaves Out
  11. When a Second Weighing Earns the Conveying It Costs
  12. The Tonnage Arithmetic From Documents to Claimable Shortfall
M3 Why the Tonnes Are Missing and Who Answers for Them Ch 34-45
  1. Physical Cause and Contractual Payer Are Two Findings
  2. Ship's Sweat and the Caked Layer Against the Hold Wall
  3. Spillage at the Grab, the Conveyor and the Quayside
  4. Insect Infestation Discovered When a Hatch Is Opened
  5. Self-Heating and Grain That Went Out of Condition in Transit
  6. Two Verified Scales That Do Not Agree
  7. A Stowage Figure Nobody Checked Against the Shore Scale
  8. Fumigation, Rejected Treatment and Cargo Condemned on Entry
  9. The Same Tonnes Charged as Carry and Deducted at Settlement
  10. Carrier, Terminal, Shipper or Insurer: Choosing Whom to Pursue
  11. Tonnage Nobody Owes For and Tonnage a Clause Converts
  12. The Gap Reattributed Twice Before It Was Served
M4 Sampling, Official Inspection and the Certificate Ch 46-59
  1. The Sealed Sub-Sample a Grain Claim Is Decided On
  2. Automatic Diverter Sampling From a Moving Stream
  3. Probe Sampling a Rail Car and Gauging a Standing Barge
  4. The Composite, the Working Portion and the Retained Portion
  5. Official Inspection and the Bodies That Provide It
  6. Appointing a Commercial Superintendent at Discharge
  7. Joint Attendance, Sole Appointment and the Right to Witness
  8. Reading a Certificate of Analysis Line by Line
  9. Does One Composite Stand for a Fifty Thousand Tonne Cargo?
  10. The Named Method Behind a Moisture or Protein Figure
  11. Falling Number, Oil Content and Free Fatty Acid as Claimable Factors
  12. When the Loadport Certificate and the Discharge Certificate Disagree
  13. Referee Analysis and the Umpire Laboratory
  14. Assembling the Cargo File While the Grain Is Still in Store
M5 From an Out of Specification Result to a Served Claim Ch 60-71
  1. Measuring the Discharge Analysis Against the Contract Specification
  2. Specification Limits Against a Fair Average Quality Sale
  3. A Result Inside the Limit Leaves Nothing to Pursue
  4. Quality as Shipped and Condition as Arrived
  5. Serving Notice of a Grain Claim
  6. Completion of Discharge, Intake or Sampling as the Starting Event
  7. Getting a Notice to the Right Entity in a String Sale
  8. Segregating the Parcel, and the Bin That Destroyed the Claim
  9. Passing a Claim Back Up a String of Sellers
  10. Conceding Downstream Before Serving Upstream
  11. A Mycotoxin Result That No Allowance Can Settle
  12. The Shortfall a Merchandiser Absorbs
M6 Allowances, Rejection and Remedies on Off-Grade Grain Ch 72-84
  1. Money Off per Tonne as the Price of a Failed Factor
  2. Applying a Published Discount Table to Two Failing Factors
  3. Protein and Oil Content Settled by Premium or Discount
  4. Refusing a Cargo and the Short Window for Doing So
  5. Taking the Grain Under Protest
  6. The Conveying Instruction That Accepted the Cargo
  7. Accepting Four Holds and Refusing the Fifth
  8. Cleaning, Drying, Screening and Blending Off as Remedies
  9. Reselling a Rejected Cargo and Pricing the Difference
  10. A Substitute Cargo Against Money Off the Original
  11. Limiting the Loss on a Parcel Going Out of Condition
  12. The Yield Loss a Flour Mill Measures as Its Damage
  13. Closing a Contested Cargo Against a Price Difference
M7 Arbitration Under the Grain Trade Associations Ch 85-97
  1. Which Arbitration Regime the Contract Has Adopted
  2. A Quality Reference and a Default Reference Are Not One Hearing
  3. Filing a Grain Arbitration Within the Regime's Procedure
  4. The Sealed Portion Lodged With the Tribunal
  5. Appointing Arbitrators Who Have Traded the Commodity
  6. What an Award on Admixture and Short Weight Determines
  7. The Board of Appeal and the Grounds for Going There
  8. The Deposit, the Surveyor's Invoice and the Counsel Fee
  9. An Award Worth Nothing Without a Cargo to Hold
  10. Non Compliance With an Award and the Posted List
  11. A Cargo Bought Under One Regime and Sold Under Another
  12. The Figure Available in a Telephone Call
  13. What a Fought Reference Consumes Across Two Harvests
M8 The Recovered Amount Ch 98-110
  1. The Document the Grain Is Finally Paid On
  2. Which Tonnage the Settlement Is Priced On
  3. Weight Shortfall Before the Grade Allowance, or After
  4. Costs the Claimant Recovers and Costs It Absorbs
  5. Rounding Between Bushels, Tonnes and the Payable Sum
  6. The Funding Cost of a Claim Left Open a Harvest
  7. Correcting a Settlement Sheet That Has Already Been Paid
  8. Set-Off Against the Next Cargo From the Same Shipper
  9. Nothing Left to Withhold Once the Credit Has Paid
  10. Recovering From the Carrier Rather Than the Seller
  11. The Cargo Insurance Claim Beside the Contractual One
  12. One Page Reconciling Contract Tonnage, Intake Tonnage and Remittance
  13. The Recovered Amount Expressed Back in Dollars per Tonne
M9 One Cargo Worked From Hatch to Payment Ch 111-120
  1. Case Setup: A Panamax of Milling Wheat Into a Mediterranean Mill
  2. Case, Part One: Hatch Survey, Draft Survey and the Intake Total
  3. Case, Part Two: Protein, Admixture and Falling Number Against the Specification
  4. Case, Part Three: The Notice Served on the Black Sea Shipper
  5. Case, Part Four: Two Defensible Figures and the Gap Between Them
  6. Case, Part Five: The Tribunal and Then the Board of Appeal
  7. Case, Part Six: Tonnes, Scale, Costs and Interest Into One Figure
  8. The Same Wheat Settled on the Loadport Figure
  9. The Same Cargo Weighed With Nobody From the Shipper Present
  10. A Light and Wet Soybean Car Settled on the Elevator Schedule
M10 What a Settled Grain Claim Leaves Open Ch 121-129
  1. The Trail From Weighbridge Ticket to Remittance Advice
  2. An Open Cargo Claim in the Month End Accounts
  3. A Shipper's Outturn History Priced Into the Next Offer
  4. The Factor Limit That Should Have Been a Guarantee
  5. What a Paid Settlement Does Not Put Right
  6. The Recovered Amount as an Input to Carry and to Default Work
  7. Why Winning a Grain Claim Can Still Cost the Desk
  8. Bin Transfer Orders a Tribunal May Read Later
  9. The Four Tonnage Figures a Closed Cargo File Must Agree

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