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B-265703 1 (1996-02-01)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptadsr0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO United States General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 Office of the General Counsel B-265703 February 1, 1996 Ocean Air International, Inc. 12 Starck Drive Burgettstown, PA 15021-9527 Attention: April Kimball Customer Service Dear Ms. Kimball: This is in response to your June 6, 1995, appeal of our Claims Group's settlement No. Z-844944(28), dated June 5, 1995, regarding the shipment of household goods belonging to Charles Vargas under GBL No. P-236,115. The settlement denied Ocean-Air International's claim for $134 offset by the U.S. Army for loss or damage to the shipment. This shipment was initially picked up at Columbus, Georgia, in June 1993, and placed in storage by McCarley Moving and Storage Company. Ocean-Air picked up the shipment from McCarley on July 19, 1993, for transportation to Fort Clayton, Panama, where it was delivered to the owner in September 1993. After delivery, several items of loss and damage were noted. You argue that Ocean-Air should not be held liable for loss of certain of these items since they were not specifically listed on the inventory prepared by McCarley at the time the shipment was packed at origin. The items you dispute are as follows: two sets of remote controls and wire connectors, one set of which was packed with items in a box listed as Color TV and one set packed with items in a box labeled Speakers; an answering machine packed in a box labeled clothes; a pressure cooker packed in a box labeled dishes; a blender and a mixer also packed in a box labeled dishes; and a steam iron packed in a box labeled books. You argue that Ocean-Air was at the mercy of the inventory made prior to its picking up the shipment from storage, and from these labelings on the inventory, Ocean-Air had no way of knowing whether these items were tendered to Ocean-Air at the time it picked up the shipment from storage. 844131

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