Shipping Terms

bunker prices

Abaft
Absorption
Accessorial Charges
Acquiescence
Acquittance
Ad Valorem
Admiralty (Adm.)
Advance
Adventure
Advice of Shipment
Advising Bank
Aframax Tanker
Aft
Agency Tariff
Agent (Agt.)
Aggregate Shipment
Assignment
Ballast tanks
Barrel (BBL)
Beam
Bill of Lading (B/L)
Billed Weight
Block Stowage
Blocking or Bracing
Board Feet
Bogie
Bonded Freight
Booking
Bottom Side Rails
Breakbulk
Bulk Cargo
Bunkers
Carrier’s Certificate
Cash Against Documents (CAD)
Center of Gravity
Clean Bill of Lading
Collection
Combination Export Mgr.
Commercial Invoice
Commercial Transport Vessel
Commodity Rate
Company Security Officer
Conference
Connecting Carrier Agreement
Consignee Mark
Consolidator
Consortium
Consul
Container
Container Pool
Container Security Initiative (CSI)
Corner Posts
Correspondent Bank
Countervailing Duty
Cubic Foot
Customs Entry
Customs of the Port (COP)
Cut-off time (closing time)
Cut–Off Time
Deadweight Cargo
Deadweight Tonnage (DWT)
Demurrage
Det Norske Veritas
Division
Door–to–Door
Draft
Draft, Bank
Draft, Clean
Dry Cargo
Dunnage
Edge Protector
Elevating
Equalization
Equipment Interchange Receipt (EIR)
Exception
Export Rate
Feeder Vessel
Fifth Wheel
Firkin
Flat Car
Free of Particular Average (FPA)
Free on Board (FOB  –  U.S. Domestic Use)
Free Time
Full and Down
Heavy lift charge
High–Density Compression
Hold
Humping
Import
Indemnity Bond
Inherent Vice
Insurance with Average–clause
Interchange Point
Irrevocable Letter of Credit
Issuing Carrier
King Pin
Known Loss
Letter of Indemnity
List
Load Line
Loaded draught
Management contract
Maritime Security and Safety Information System (MSSIS)
Marshaling yard
Master Inbound
Megaports Initiative
Microbridge
Minimum Charge
Mobile crane
MTSA
Multimodal
MultiTank Container
National Strategy for Maritime Security
Net Weight
Nomenclature of the Customs Cooperation Council
Nose
Open Account
Open Top Container
Order–Notify (O/N)
Overland Common Point (OCP)
Packing List
Paired Ports
Pallet
Panamax Vessel
Paper Rate
Parcel Receipt
Payer
Perils of the Sea
Phytosanitary Inspection Certificate
Pickup
Pier–to–Pier
Pilotage dues
Point of Origin
Pomerene Act, Also known as (U.S.) Federal Bill of Lading Act of 1916.
Port
Port Security
Pro Forma Invoice
Pro Rata
Product Tanker
Pulp Temperature
Ramp
Related Points
Running Gear
Seaworthiness
Security Level 1
Security Level 2
Security Level 3
Service
Shipping Act of 1984
Side–Door Container
Skids
Spine Car
Suezmax Tanker
Tonnage
U.S. Consular Invoice
Unit Load
Unit Train
Unitization
Unloading
USPPI –  United States Principal Party of Interest
Validated Export License
Validation
Vanning
Variable Cost
Ventilated Container
VISA
VLCC
VLFO –  Vessel Load Free Out
War Risk
Warehouse
Warehouse Entry
Warehouse Withdrawal for Transportation (WDT)
Warehouse Withdrawal for Transportation Exportation (WDT&E)
Warehousing
Waybill (WB)
Weights and Measures/Measurement ton:
Well Car
Wharfage (Whfge.)
Windy Booking
Without Recourse
“Ro/Ro”