MSG Number definition
MSG Number means the number of the correspondence, and generally employees should number each one correspondence, and in daily shipping business, the captain (or employees) would send tens or more correspondences with relative disputing parties (including the ship-owner, the management company, the sailor company, the port agency, the charterer, and the supplier), and for future inquiries, the addresser should number all mails which he sends in the day, and the number usually includes the data of the correspondence and the code name of the addresser (because the captain is the only person who has right to send the correspondence, so it could only contain the data), and the correspondence number could help us to check or cite the correspondence which has been sent in the future. For example, for the text of “Regarding this matter, please refer to my MSGNO051505”, the other side could easily find relative answers in the fifth correspondence sent at May 15.