It is the airline who will be held responsible for the transfer of a complete set of information at master air waybill and house air waybill level.

Lufthansa Cargo has therefore decided to transmit all necessary house air waybill data themselves. This applies for all consolidated shipments (shipments consisting of one or more house air waybills) and non-consolidated shipments (simple air waybills). The final composition of a shipment is only known at the time of freight acceptance, as changes can occur due to split or part shipments.

New: Piece Control
Some consolidations have a discrepancy in piece-count between the MAWB and the sum of HAWBs, this usually happens in case of pre-consolidated shipments or cover packages. In these cases, i. e. if the number of pieces on the MAWB is smaller then the sum of the pieces of all associated HAWBs, the MAWB has to have the SLAC (= shipper's load and count).

Lufthansa Cargo will not open any cover package and will not check the piece-count of overpacked pieces. The shipper is fully responsible for the accuracy and sufficiency of the data and the documents.

Build up Units (BUPs) need to have the actual boarded weight and actual pieces included, so that LCAG can still transmit necessary data in case the shipment is not flown on one flight. Since CBP does not allow a shipment with calculated weight, we require that forwarders include the actual weight and pieces on each BUP manifest.