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Supply Chain Terms and Definitions

Your comprehensive reference guide to supply chain terminology, organized alphabetically for quick and easy navigation.

A

Accessorial Fees

Actual Gross Weight

Advanced Manifest System (AMS)

Air Cargo

Air Waybill (AWB)

All-Risk Insurance

Arrival Notice

Assembling

ATA Carnet

Automated Commercial Environment (ACE)

B

Backhaul

BAF (Bunker Adjustment Factor)

Barge

Batching

Bill of Entry

Bill of Lading (BOL)

Blind Shipment

Bonded Carrier

Bonded Goods

Bonded Warehouse

C

CAF (Currency Adjustment Factor)

Cargo Insurance

Cargo Manifest

Carnet

Carrier

CBF (Cubic Feet)

Certificate of Origin

CFS (Container Freight Station)

Charter Party

Chassis

D

Dangerous Goods (DG)

DDP (Delivered Duty Paid)

DDU (Delivered Duty Unpaid)

Deadweight Tonnage (DWT)

Declared Value

Demurrage

Detention

Devanning

Direct Consignment

Dispatch

E

EDI (Electronic Data Interchange)

Electronic Export Information (EEI)

Electronic Manifest System (EMS)

Endorsement

Entry Summary

EORI Number (Economic Operators Registration and Identification)

ETA (Estimated Time of Arrival)

ETD (Estimated Time of Departure)

Ex-Works (EXW)

Export Broker

F

FAF (Fuel Adjustment Factor)

FAK (Freight All Kinds)

FCA (Free Carrier)

FCL (Full Container Load)

Federal Maritime Commission (FMC)

FEU (Forty-Foot Equivalent Unit)

Final Destination

Flat Rack Container

FMC (Federal Maritime Commission)

FOB (Free on Board)

G

Gateway

General Average

General Cargo

GRI (General Rate Increase)

Gross Tonnage (GT)

Ground Handling

Groupage

H

Harbor Maintenance Fee (HMF)

Haulage

HAWB (House Air Waybill)

Hazardous Materials (HazMat)

Heavy Lift

House Bill of Lading (HBL)

HS Code (Harmonized System Code)

I

IATA (International Air Transport Association)

IBC (Intermediate Bulk Container)

Import Declaration

Import Duty

Importer Security Filing (ISF)

In-Bond Shipment

Incoterms (International Commercial Terms)

Inland Bill of Lading

Inland Haulage

Inspection Fee

J

Just-in-Time (JIT)

K

Kitting

Knocked-Down (KD)

L

Landed Cost

Last Mile Delivery

LCL (Less than Container Load)

Letter of Credit (LC)

Liftgate

Line Haul

Loading Dock

Logistics Management

Manifest

M

Marine Cargo Insurance

Marine Surveyor

Master Air Waybill (MAWB)

Measurement Ton

Merchant Haulage

MPS (Merchandise Processing Fee)

Multimodal Transport

N

NCBFAA (National Customs Brokers and Forwarders Association of America)

NCM Code (Nomenclatura Común del Mercosur)

Net Tonnage (NT)

Non-Vessel Operating Common Carrier (NVOCC)

Notify Party

O

Ocean Bill of Lading (OBL)

Ocean Freight

Off-Dock Terminal

On-Carriage

Open Top Container

Origin Charge

Out of Gauge (OOG)

Overweight Surcharge

P

Packing List

Palletization

Partial Shipment

Peak Season Surcharge (PSS)

Perishable Goods

Pickup & Delivery

Pier Pass Fee

Port Congestion

Port of Discharge (POD)

Port of Entry

Q

Quarantine

Quay

R

Ramp

Reefer Container

Remanifest

Restricted Articles

RFID (Radio Frequency Identification)

Roll-On/Roll-Off (RoRo)

Routing Order

S

Schedule B Code

Seal Number

Shipment Tracking

Shipper's Export Declaration (SED)

Shipper's Letter of Instruction (SLI)

Shipping Manifest

Short Shipment

Slot Charter

Special Cargo

Split Shipment

T

Tariff

TEU (Twenty-Foot Equivalent Unit)

Third-Party Logistics (3PL)

Through Bill of Lading

TIR Carnet

Tonnage

Tracking Number

Transit Time

Trucking Rate

Turnaround Time

U

ULD (Unit Load Device)

UN Number

Uniform Customs and Practice (UCP)

Unloading Charges

V

Value-Added Tax (VAT)

Vanning

Vessel Schedule

Volume Weight (Volumetric Weight)

W

Warehouse Receipt

Warehousing

Waybill

Weight Break

Weight Certificate

Wharf

Wharfage

Z

Zone Price

Zone Skip

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