Bill of lading is in the carrier to take over the goods, by the shipping agent to open, except for freight forwarding bill of lading. Generally is the shipping agent is out to the exporting party, the exporting party to get the bill of lading, faxed to the seller, meaning "your goods we have safely loaded on board", and then the importing party to remit the payment to the exporting party, the exporting party received the money, the original bill of lading to the importing party by mail, so that the importing party in the goods arrive at the port of destination with the bill of lading.

Because, the bill of lading represents the right of goods, who has the original bill of lading means that who can get the goods. So your export company should hold the right to goods, and so the importing party to pay before releasing the bill of lading

No bill of lading can pick up the goods.

Sea freight is generally the original bill of lading; air freight is not required, air cargo will be part of the documents need to be random, these documents are left to do the port of destination customs clearance, to facilitate the airport cargo station cargo, to avoid delays in customer clearance and other roles.

So, sea and air transport both pick up the way slightly different, so international logistics companies suggest that foreign trade friends before shipping to carefully check