# 商法 / Commercial Code — 第七百四十八条 (Article 748) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-748. Every law, and how to address a provision: https://japanlaw.org/llms.txt. The same laws as MCP tools (no sign-in): https://japanlaw.org/mcp. - Law: 商法 (Commercial Code), 明治三十二年法律第四十八号 - English title "Commercial Code": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第七百四十八条 (Article 748)（運送品の船積み） — address `art-748` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-748 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-748 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第七百四十八条（運送品の船積み） — (Loading of Goods) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-748 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-748 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-748 **第一項** 航海傭船契約（船舶の全部又は一部を目的とする運送契約をいう。以下この節において同じ。）に基づいて運送品の船積みのために必要な準備を完了したときは、船長は、遅滞なく、傭船者に対してその旨の通知を発しなければならない。 art-748/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-748/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-748/par-1 Once the preparations necessary for loading goods onto a ship have been completed based on a voyage charter contract (meaning a transportation contract that covers the whole or part of a ship; hereinafter the same applies in this Section), the master must issue notice of this to the charterer without delay. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 船積期間の定めがある航海傭船契約において始期を定めなかったときは、その期間は、前項の通知があった時から起算する。この場合において、不可抗力によって船積みをすることができない期間は、船積期間に算入しない。 art-748/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-748/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-748/par-2 If the period of loading is specified but the time of its commencement is not specified in a voyage charter contract, that period is counted from the day on which the notice referred to in the preceding paragraph is issued. In this case, the period of loading does not include any period during which the loading of goods is impeded due to force majeure. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 傭船者が船積期間の経過後に運送品の船積みをした場合には、運送人は、特約がないときであっても、相当な滞船料を請求することができる。 art-748/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-748/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-748/par-3 If the charterer loads goods onto the ship after the period of loading has passed, the carrier may claim reasonable demurrage even if there is no special agreement to that effect. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "If the charterer loads goods onto the ship after the period of loading has passed, the carrier may claim reasonable charterage even if there is no special agreement to that effect." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4293/tb --- ## Cites - art-748/par-2: 前項 → 商法 第七百四十八条第一項 (Article 748, paragraph (1)), art-748/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-748/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-748/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 商法 第七百四十八条第二項（運送品の船積み） — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/art-748/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/art-748/par-2 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of paragraphs, written 2026-11-05 - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 商法 — the text in force from 2026-06-24 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/132AC0000000048/20260624_508AC0000000046), retrieved 2026-11-05 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Commercial Code (商法), Article 748, paragraph (3) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4293/tb), retrieved 2026-11-05 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Commercial Code — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4293/tb), retrieved 2026-11-05 - This site's parser, version 224 — 商法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-05