A document, issued by a bank per instructions by a buyer of goods, authorizing the seller to draw a specified sum of money under specified terms, usually the receipt...
Less then Container Load (LCL)
The term opposite to full container load, referring to small goods which can not fill a container. This kind of goods are usually drawn from various locations and concentrated...
Guarantee from the shipper or consignee to indemnify carrier for costs and/or loss, if any, in order to obtain favorable action by carrier, e.g. sometimes, it is used to...
A legal claim upon goods for the satisfaction of some debt or duty.
A container ship onto which containers are lifted by crane
A vessel discharges part of its cargo at anchor into a lighter to reduce the vessel’s draft so it can then get alongside a pier.
An open or covered barge towed by a tugboat and used mainly in harbors and inland waterways to carry cargo to/from alongside a vessel.
Refers to carriage of goods by lighter and the charge assessed therefrom.
The maximal compensation assumed by the carrier of the damage or short of the goods in container transportation. The following are some regulations of the compensation of full container...
Vessel plying a regular trade/defined route against a published sailing schedule.
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