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B-185014 1 (1975-12-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaddua0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISION . OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON. D.C. 20548 FILE: DATE: DEC 3 0 1975 B-185014 MATTER OF: O Gambia Airways Ltd. DIGEST: 1. Due to accounting delays, voucher for trans- portation charges was received in GAO after the applicable statute of limitations had run. See 49 U.S.C. 5 66 (1970). As GAO is not authorized to waive statutorily imposed time limitations on payment of transportation claims, Transportation and Claims Division settlement denying payment is sustained. 2. Agent for authorized carrier must submit bills in name of authorized carrier. 4 C.F.R. 52.38 (1975). This refers to a letter dated June 28, 1975, addressed to The Charge d'Affairs, American Embassy, Banjul, The Gambia, from Gambia Airways Ltd. (Gambia). Gambia requests assistance in collecting payment for transportation charges under Gambia Airways invoice No. 118. The transportation was authorized by Government bill of lading No. F-7779052, dated October 24, 1971, which covered a shipment of air baggage/personal effects from McLean, Virginia, to Bathurst, Gambia. Air Waybill 026-16148985 was issued October 24, 1971, by Pan American World Airways, Inc., to cover this transportation, with Piedmont Airlines to trans- port to New York, Pan An to Dakar and Air Nigeria to Bathurst. It thus appears that the only service performed by Gambia was to transport the shipment from the airport in Gambia to its final destination. Gambia Airlines Ltd. is not mentioned on any official docuentation connected with the transportation, except for its own invoice and forms issued after the transportation was complete. However, it has submitted the abovementioned invoice, as well as Public Voucher for Transportation Charges, Form 1113, undated, as evidence of its claim for payment of the entire cost of the transportation. This claim was received by our Trans- portation and Claims Division on December 12, 1974. By letter of March 21, 1975, our Transportation and Claims Division advised Gambia that pursuant to 49 U.S.C. 5 66 (1970), its claim

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