rate will be charged (See Clause 24) Total No. of Containers ONE (1) CONTAINER (S) ONLY or Packages (In words) See Pl’.s Stmt, of Genuine Issues ¶ 8; Deck of Hiroyuki Ohtake in Supp. of Def.’s Mot. for Summ. J. Ex. A. In the Ninth Circuit, if the parties designate a number of packages in the bill of lading, they are contractually bound for COGSA purposes by the number of packages stated. See Nemeth v. General Steamship Corp., 694 F.2d 609, 613-14 (9th Cir.1982) (concluding that three packages were shipped where bill of lading listed goods as “3 (three) cases household goods”). This rule applies to numbers placed in a column whose heading indicates that it is the column for the number of packages. See Travelers Indemnity Co. v. The Vessel Sam Houston, 26 F.3d 895, 901 (9th Cir.1994) (<HOLDING>). If the bill of lading specifies a number of
holding that bill of lading issued as to two containers was binding as to third container which was stolen and as to which no bill of lading issued provided that the bill of lading in evidence was the standard form bill of lading that carrier always used holding that the parties designated the number of packages in the bill of lading when they filled in the numbers 18 103 and 165 under the column heading no of pkgs holding that forum selection clause in a bill of lading issued to an nvocc binds the cargo owner because the nvocc acted as the cargo owners agent in accepting the bill of lading holding that 30 pallets were the cogsa packages where the bill of lading stated that there were 30 packages holding that terms of bill of lading apply to shipper where it brings suit thereunder