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ADR is the European agreement that regulates the transport of dangerous goods. This agreement contains the regulatory provisions for the…

Abbreviation for Allgemeine Deutsche Spediteurbedingungen = Allgemeine Geschäftsbedingungen für Spediteure (General Terms and Conditions for German Transport Companies).

Ship rental. Contract of affreightment: charter agreement, contract stipulated between a forwarder and a shipping company for the transport of…

The term animal transport or even livestock transport means the transport of live animals by truck, car, rail, ship or…

Freight forwarders liability insurance policy. It does not concern all the responsibilities incumbent on the shippers, but only professional errors…

Person or company incorporated and legally recognized that manages and uses for the transport of things, people or both, one…

Heavy vehicle in which the front of the trailer is mounted on a fifth wheel steering. Therefore, an articulated convoy…

It is the request that the operator (directly or through the forwarder) forwards to the shipping company to reserve a…

Corporate logistics is the generic term for the logistics of a company and includes both internal and external logistics aspects…

Transportation from one point to another within national borders.

Load. Cargo manifest: on-board / cargo manifest.

A freight offer is the offer of a freight which, for remuneration, is transported by a third party. The offer…

Natural or legal person who stipulates the transport contract with the carrier.

If the goods are loaded on deck (not in the hold), the policyholder or the insured must notify the insurer…

Payment of the goods upon delivery of the documents representing the goods.

Payment of goods on delivery.

A rib is a truck tarp that works like an accordion. The trailer roof can indeed be opened / moved….

Used in sea transport, in the Cfr the seller is obliged to deliver the goods on board the ship in…

Arbitration act by which the owner of the goods, undertaking to pay the general average contribution, obtains the free availability…

The CIP return has the same characteristics as the Cpt but the seller, in this case, is obliged to provide…

Any insurance contract concerning the shipment of goods by sea makes express reference to this clause. An essential prerequisite for…

The CMR indicates the International Convention relating to the International Carriage of Goods by Road. CMR is the acronym of…

Freight payable at destination.

Financial term. It means the collection of overdue financial receivables, in particular of invoices.

Main document in the maritime sector, certifying the loading of goods from a designated port of unloading on a specifically…

Combined transport operator.

From the Latin continere = to contain; these are generally large standard containers for the transport and storage of goods.

Contractual logistics means a contractual model, between a production or trading company and a supplier of logistics services, based on…

(Latin currere = to run). Make express delivery of small shipments, directly from the sender to the recipient.

Truck cover. Goods are loaded into a covered platform truck which, for example, must be protected from the weather.

In the CPT the seller must deliver the goods to the carrier designated by himself, but the particularity of this…

The Customs is a body responsible for the control of goods in import and export, required to collect customs duties,…

Duty is a tax that is levied by customs on goods at the time of importation. The payment of the…

Term indicating the outcome of the goods. The types are: Entry into free circulation, Customs warehouse transit, Inward processing, Processing…

In this type of return, the seller bears the costs relating to the main transport and carries out the export…

With this type of guarantee, the seller delivers the goods on the means of transport of arrival in the country…

The transport document (DDT) is a certificate used to certify the transfer of goods between two distinct places. transferring subject,…

These are goods that must be transported from one place to another quickly. This type of transport is part of…

An “empty trip” means a trip in which a truck travels unloaded to its next loading point. This is usually…

It is issued by the carrier to the receiver, bearer of the bill of lading, so that he can collect…

A diesel floater is used to counter the fluctuation in diesel prices. It is established individually between the transport service…

In economics, disposition is an organizational unit responsible for circulation in accordance with quantity and deadline.

(from the Latin distributio) Indicates all the processes that take place in the sales channel between producers and traders, up…

In domestic or domestic traffic, goods are transported only within the borders of a country, for example when loading and…

Transport in which a single subject assumes the responsibility of carrying out (or having carried out) the entire transport cycle…

“(service) door (of the sender) to door (of the receiver)” Transport in which a single subject assumes the responsibility of…

Special open version of a truck. The truck is equipped with a rear tipping body and / or sideways (with…

Placed on the bill of lading and on the insurance certificate, it gives legitimacy to the holder of the document,…

“Estimated time of arrival”. It means “estimated time for arrival at destination” and, in these areas, it provides a forecast,…

“Expected time of departure”, expected date of departure of the goods from the receiver / port / freight terminal warehouse.

Also known as euro-palette; it is a pallet pallet standardized by European transport companies, usually made of wood (800 x…

Exceptional transport means that type of road transport of goods that exceeds the limits of shape, mass or safety dictated…

A virtual market is meant mostly for freight forwarders and transport operators. In this platform they can process offers of…

Primary meaning: transport of goods and / or services across state borders, outside.

The exporter is the person responsible for the customs export operations and in the buying and selling operations involving two…

With this type of transport, urgent loads are assigned. Packages or goods must be delivered to the place of destination…

The term Ex works provides that the seller fulfills the obligation to deliver by making the goods available to the…

Usually usable in maritime transport, the FAS return obliges the seller to deliver the goods on the quay of the…

In the FCA return, the seller delivers the goods, already cleared for export, to the carrier designated by the buyer,…

“Full Container Load” (FCL) – Means that a customer is fully booking one or more shipping containers. This is an…

Certificate of acceptance of the goods by the shipper / In issuing the FIATA FCR document, the shipper certifies that…

Transport document issued by the shipper.

Container unit of measurement equivalent to 40 feet (12.20 m.).

There is a fixed deadline if, with the transport order, a precise time is agreed for loading or unloading the…

This refers to the specific arrangement, command and control of vehicle fleets (heavy goods vehicles, passenger cars, ships, rail vehicles)….

Usable only for sea transport, the seller must deliver the goods directly on board the ship indicated by the buyer…

The lift truck or forklift is a motorized ground transport vehicle, mainly used for the transport of pallets and metal…

The freight forwarder is a professional figure that assumes a central role in the world of logistics. Its function is…

Free entry and exit expenses from the hold.

The term “free port” is used commercially to indicate shipments in which the payment of transport costs is borne by…

freight transport means the transport of goods or goods of any kind by means of transport such as trucks, cars,…

The term FTL (Full Truck Load), in Italian full load, indicates a transport in which the truck carries a single…

It occurs when a customer hires a complete truck, directed to a single recipient.

Receipt for collection of goods in the warehouse.

Abbreviation of Geschlossene Benutzer Gruppe; in English “Closed User Group (CUG). Indicates a group of users who have access to…

Goods, defined as movable assets, are all tangible products that are the subject of a commercial transaction. Movable assets are…

Measurement of the volumes of all enclosed spaces on the ship, including those that cannot be used for cargo stowage….

Gross weight.

These are contracts for the transport of packages from several senders; the forwarder collects the packages, groups them and then…

Set of operations and auxiliary services to freight transport relating to the handling of goods; The storage of materials such…

Port rights.

with this type of transport we mean the transport of particularly heavy goods.

Space of the ship intended to receive the cargo to be carried

Horse transport is a special type of animal transport in which live horses are transported by truck, car, rail, ship…

Termination of the transport sector; we mean a transshipment center where the flows of goods are collected, sorted in all…

Introduction into the national territory of goods from foreign countries.

The importer is the person responsible for the import customs operations and in the purchase and sale operations involving two…

English clauses for the insurance of goods issued by the ILU.

English clauses for the insurance of goods transported under “All risks” conditions.

English clause for the insurance of the risks of strikes, riots, civil motions.

English clauses for the insurance of the risk of strikes and similar on the goods transported.

English clauses for the insurance of the risks of strikes, riots, civil motions on transported goods.

Provisions for ship body & machinery insurance.

English clause for war risk insurance.

English clause on sea areas prohibited to ships, concerning H&M policies, due to the seasonal presence of ice.

In times of globalization, the shipping of goods over long distances becomes increasingly important. An international freight forwarder organizes, with…

International transport is the physical transfer of goods located in one country to another place located in another country. Especially…

It grouped together 46 British and foreign insurance companies specialized in the transport sector, dissolved on 31.12.98 to confer in…

Another name for large volume cargo units, eg. jumbo trailers, jumbo trailers.

Abbreviation of Kurier, Express-, Paketdienst. Indicates the transport of packages with a minimum weight. A single package does not exceed…

International road vehicle regulation for long distance freight transport.

the term land transport includes all types of transport carried out on the ground, ie by land. This term means…

Set of operations and procedures aimed at securely tying goods transported by sea, so that the latter does not suffer…

It is a document issued by an expert to certify that the goods are raised according to technical standards required…

The layday is the period of time during which the ship remains available to the shipper (or receiver) in the…

Less than Container Load (LCL) is the term used in the logistics field to define the type of shipment of…

Regular line shipping for container and general cargo traffic.

Freight conditions that attribute the costs of loading and unloading the goods to the carrier, according to the uses of…

Parts of the hull of a ship located below the waterline.

Short for Lastkraftwagen (truck), originally called “laster” or “truck” (American). These are trucks that are particularly suitable for the transport…

Technique of loading a ship with cranes that raise and lower the loading units, as happens for the loading and…

Indicates any goods that a transport company agrees to transport under contractual agreement with the sender.

Loading dock.

Truck loading means goods transported by truck.

The loading yard is the place where goods are loaded onto a carrier. This is usually the place of dispatch.

Consisting of four separate books that must be kept on board the ship and on which are reported, chronologically, the…

It means the set of all commercial activities necessary for a product to find its way from the producer to…

A stock exchange makes it possible to offer and find suitable storage and logistics areas. The largest online stock exchange…

It is the process of moving goods, from commission to delivery to the customer. It includes all planning, operational and…

Logistics 4.0 refers to the most modern logistics which includes interconnection, digitalization and cloud computing. A logistics company, therefore, is…

The term LTL (Less Than Truckload) refers to road transport under partial load. For a truck with a partial load,…

Lump sum.

standardized measure for transport by truck. Each unit corresponds to 1 meter of the longitudinal load capacity of a truck….

Not a very rare event, generally due to an error in the evaluation of the space available in the hold…

Interchangeable body for the transport of goods. Swap bodies are standardized and can be applied and removed without further fixed…

net, net-net express weight without packaging

Measurement of the volumes of all the spaces useful for stowing the load. It is carried out by the Naval…

Net weight.

Term used in transport documents, mainly in oceanic bills of lading, to confirm the integrity of the goods loaded.

With the delivery notice, the respective transport company informs the recipient in advance of the approximate arrival time of the…

is the most common document used in maritime transport, which certifies the loading of the goods in a specific port…

Freight exchanges are now almost exclusively online. In the simplest systems, free advertisements are made based on specific transport needs….

Open hold vessels equipped with overhead crane.

Parts of the hull of a ship located above the waterline.

If a forwarding company accepts an order, the contractor has the option of sending a written confirmation to the orderer….

Any large object that is being transported or shipped.

Bill of packages; list indicating the contents of a container; loading list.

Platform on which packaged goods are stacked for transport purposes. There are different types of headstock (e.g. flat or barrel)…

Load that does not occupy the entire load capacity of the truck, but only partially.

Quay, abseil, pier.

Contract of transport by sea with which the carrier assumes the responsibility of carrying out, by other means, the overland…

Agreement under which the transport costs are charged to the recipient.

Agreement according to which the transport costs are charged to the sender.

The term production refers to the manufacture as well as the packaging and finishing of consumer goods and services. Production…

Pier, quay.

The recipient is the one from whom the goods are unloaded or accepted, i.e. the place of delivery of the…

transport of frozen and deep-frozen goods (from the Latin frigor = cold)

as a rule, the movement manager creates, coordinates and supervises the tours or journeys of the vehicle fleet (uploads and…

The term cargo defines the set of goods contained in the loading compartment (s) of a means of transport such…

support for fixing sheet metal rolls to the vehicle.

we mean a rolled sheet like a roll (roll of sheet, in English coil). These are usually rolls of tape,…

Also known as a route planner. We mean PC programs that help to plan the route between the place of…

organization of transport contracts (manual or by means of special software). The contracts are distributed to the vehicles in such…

Clause inserted on BLs by the shipping carrier when loading FCL full container load containers.

It is a document issued by the carrier to the supplier in exchange for the load.This document differ from the…

It means the targeted search of loads eg. by transporters, freight forwarders and transport companies In a mask you enter…

also called articulated lorry or semi-trailer tractor. It consists of a tractor without a loading bed and an interchangeable semi-trailer….

shipped on the deck of the ship at the risk of the shipper.

Shipper, shipper.

Declaration issued by the shipper for the transport of dangerous goods, prepared by FIATA.

Shipping agent / forwarder (as appropriate).

Shipping and logistics service agents (formerly: freight forwarders) work in shipping and logistics companies. They organize the shipment of goods,…

A shipper company in general means a company that commissions logistics services to a logistics service provider. Industrial and commercial…

Navigation Company.

The forwarding house is a company that carries out the commercial activity of organizing, in its own name, the transport…

large storage for loose goods. In agriculture, the silos used to store cereals are 10 to 20 meters high. These…

Cell of a ship designed to load containers, swap bodies, semi-trailers.

Solvency is synonymous with commercial reputation. The credit check is aimed at verifying the commercial reputation of a company, eg….

Virtual currency created by the International Monetary Fund used for the calculation of vector liability limits.

special transport includes heavy transport, exceptional transport and urgent transport.

Place where moving goods are stored. In particular, a warehouse with related infrastructures is used for the collection, commissioning and…

An online stock exchange is a search engine for warehouses that allows you to locate free storage spaces and surfaces….

Operation of placing goods in the hold of the ship or on any other means of transport, to be carried…

Deliver the goods to the manufacturer.

The SVG Bundes-Zentralgenossenschaft Straßenverkehr eG cooperative supports companies in the transport and logistics sector with a variety of activities, for…

Container for the storage of liquids, usually with a square or cylindrical construction.

it is a semi-trailer without fixed sides. On the sides of the truck there are moving floors and integrated fastening…

It is an English word that means tender. It is the part of the ordering process, where potential bidders are…

Terms, conditions, terms. C-terms clauses with main freight paid. E-terms clauses with outbound delivery. D-terms clauses with delivery on arrival….

It represents the standard measure of volume in container transport. Most of the containers have a length of 20 or…

Expenses for grounding and handling of containers stowed on the ship.

The contract market is the economic place where long-term contracts are stipulated for logistic services of particular complexity.

means the transport of temperature sensitive goods, in particular goods which must be kept warm.

The purpose of a time slot management system is to reduce or eliminate waiting times at the loading or unloading…

tax paid to travel through certain tunnels and bridges and certain roads and highways. Also called road network charging or…

The operation with which the goods are transferred from the ship or other means of transport, on land or on…

It means the transport of goods (movement of goods) or of people (movement of people).

A transport company is an enterprise that transports goods to their respective destinations on a commercial level.

the transport of motor vehicles means the transport of a vehicle, such as a car, a truck, an off-road vehicle,…

If the transport company has accepted a trip, a transport order is sent by the shipper to the transport company….

A transport web page means the page of a transport service provider. There you can find information about the company,…

A transportation management system (TM-System) is a tool for traffic dispatchers. With a transportation management system the dispatcher can manage…

Combined land / sea transport.

indicates various types of trucks, eg. semi-trailer, articulated convoy.

indicates the place (collection point) where the goods are unloaded or accepted.

The use of the warehouse depends primarily on the type of storage facility or surface. The warehouse must be equipped…

Truck version with van bodywork, i.e. closed on the sides and covered.

the carrier is the person in charge of the physical movement of the goods (art. 1678 of the civil code)….

A tracking system is a system that offers the user the opportunity to find out about the position of the…

It is the verified gross mass of a container and corresponds to the net weight of the goods, of its…

Warehouse, storage. Bonded warehouse warehouse for temporary exemption storage. Customs warehouse bonded warehouse. Delivery wharehouse overseas delivery warehouse. General wharehouse…

Warehouse logistics is a branch of logistics that involves companies active in warehouse management and dealing with the storage and…

Warehousing means the activity of conservation and custody of goods on a commercial level, carried out by the warehouse worker.

Warehousing, or storage, concerns the design and management of logistic infrastructures, plants and other equipment used for the collection, storage…

Guarantee. Dock warrant certificate of deposit. Warehouse warrant authentic deposit (customs).

A wasted trip is a journey of a means of transport without a load. All unladen trips of a truck…

it is a document issued by the sender that accompanies the goods. It acts as a support document containing the…