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Commercial freight companies offer many
different types of services to transport
goods for their customers such as airfreight, ocean freight, truck, and
by rail.
Manufactures receive fast shipping, outstanding customer service, and
the elimination
of many headaches from having to handle problems that arise when shipping
orders themselves.
When using commercial freight, manufactures understand that the shipping
industry
has a language all of its own. Like any industry, this can be a little
confusing
at first, so below are listed a few phases:
Cargo: merchandise or commodities that is carried by means of
transportation.
Cargo Receipt: a receipt of cargo usually used in ocean freight.
Cash Against Documents (CAD): Payment for goods in which a commission
house transfers
title documents to the buyer upon payment in cash.
Dangerous Goods: cargo capable of posing a significant risk to health,
safety, or
property, and that ordinarily requires special attention when being
transported.
DDP: Delivered duty paid or free domicile.
Double stacked: Stacked cars are being used to ship containers on
trains.
Gross Weight, G.R.Wt./G.W: Entire weight of goods, including packing,
and container.
Hundredweight (cwt.): short ton hundredweight = 100 pounds. Long ton
hundredweight
= 112 pounds.
Lkg. & Bkg.: Leakage and breakage.
Piggyback: when a highway trailer is being transported on a flat car.
Piece count: The number of individual cases or packages in an intermodal
trailer
or container.
Pup: 28-foot trailer used in less than truckload shipping.
Reefer or REFG: Refrigerated boxcar.
Route: an established air passage, from point of departure to
terminating station.
Scoot: A train that shuttles or carries as many rail cars.
S.I.T.: Stopped in Transit
Strikes, Riots, and Civil Commotions: An insurance clause that refers to
loss or
damage directly caused by strikers, locked-out workmen, persons
participation in
labor disturbances, and riots of various kinds.
Tally Sheet: List of cargo incoming, and outgoing from the loading dock.
There are many other terms, which are used in the shipping industry.
Familiarity
of them may make shipping communication clearer.
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