“Supercargoes are persons employed by commercial companies or by private merchants to take charge of the cargoes they export to foreign countries, to sell them there to the best advantage, and to purchase proper commodities to relade the ships on their return home. They usually go out with the ships on board of which the goods are embarked, and return home with them, and in this they differ from factors who live abroad …. The supercargo is the agent of the owners, and disposes of the cargo and makes purchases under their general instructions on his own responsibility.” 70 Am. Jur. 2d Shipping § 886, at 1025 (1987).
supercargo
supercargo. Maritime law. A person specially employed and authorized by a cargo owner to sell cargo that has been shipped and to purchase returning cargo, at the best possible prices; the commercial or foreign agent of a merchant.
