A
ABB
General conditions of passengers and luggage carriage
ABC
"World Airways Guide" and "Air Cargo Guide"
Timetables and routings of major passenger and cargo airlines
ADR
European Agreement Concerning the International Carriage of Dangerous
Goods by road
(European agreement on international dangerous goods road shipments)
ad. val.
(lat.) ad valorem, of (good's) value
AE
Export declaration
AG
Export licence
AGF
Long-haul freight trucking association
AGK
General terms of road haulage
AGN
Short-haul freight trucking association
AGNB
General conditions of short-haul freight trucking
AHStatGes
Act on statistics of international cargo shipments
AIST
Association for the promotion and development
of cross-border road haulage
Air Waybill AWB
Accompanying document for air shipments
AKB
General road haulage insurance clauses
AKM
Statistical export control report
ACP-States
African, Carribean and Pacific states, having signed a preferential
agreement with the European Community
Acquisition
Cargo procurement and brokerage
ALFA
Automated procedure applied for import air cargo
shipments
AMÖ
Federal association of removal operators
A.R.A.-ports
Ports of Antwerp, Rotterdam, Amsterdam
Association agreements
Agreements of non-EC states with the European Community Union
on the granting of customs preferences
AT
Preferential tariff
ATA
Customs admission booklet for cargo's temporary export or import
ATP
Agreement on transports of perishable goods and on special means
of transport to be used for such shipments
Advise
Notification to consignee on cargo's arrival or despatch
Average
Damage sustained by a ship or its cargo as a result of marine
accident
AWB
Air Waybill
B
BAF
Bunker adjustment factor applied in marine traffic
BAG
Federal office for goods transports; Federal Labour
Court
Barge
Cargo riverboat, lighter
BIC
Bureau International des Containers - International Container
Bureau
Bill of lading, B/L
Legal document issued by the forwarder stating his obligations
related to cargo's delivery to the B/L's legitimate holder, serving as security
BMV
Federal minister of transport
Bordero
Cargo manifest issued by the consolidator to inform the deconsolidator
about details of the individual shipments
Break bulk
Cargo shipped neither in containers nor on pallets
BRT
Gross register ton - unit of measurement of a
vessel's entire space to indicate a ship's loading capacity,
BRVS
Rail cartage insurance policy
BRZ
Gross space figure - Figure indicating a ship's
hold
BSchG / BSchVG
Act on inland shipping
BSK
Experts group for heavy duty shipments and craning
of the federal forwarding and logistics association
BSL
Federal forwarding and logistics association
Bulk Carrier
Vessel for shipments of bulk goods (e.g. ore, grain etc.)
BWE
Federal short-haul road transport and waste disposal
association
BWV
Federal association of works forwarders and loaders
BZG
Federal central road traffic cooperation
C
Cabotage
Operating inland shipments outside one's country of registration
CAF
Currency adjustment factor applied in ocean shipping
Carnet-A.T.A.
Customs booklet admitting cargo's temporary import or export
issued for international road hauliers
Carnet-T.I-R.
Customs booklet admitting free transit passage issued for international
road hauliers
Carrier
A person or firm engaged in the carriage of passengers or goods
Cartage
Expression for the rate charged for picking up goods from sender
or for house delivery of general cargo and groupage cargo formerly used when this was done by cart
CEMT
(Conférence Européenne des Ministres des Transports)
Permanent conference of European traffic ministers
CEP-services
Courier, express and parcel services
Cession
Legally passing on something someone is entitled to to another
legal entity
CFR
Incoterm Cost and freight
CFS
Container Freight Station (Container stuffing station)
CH
Carrier´s haulage (container's road haulage to be done
by shipowner)
Charter contract
Sea carriage contract. A vessel is entirely or partly leased
for a voyage or for a period
CIF
Incoterm Cost, insurance, freight
CIM
(Convention Internationale concernant le Transport de Marchandises
par Chemin de Fer)
International Convention concerning the carriage of goods by rail
Clarification
Operations linked to a ship's calling at a port, sailing and
berting
C.L.E.C.A.T.
Comité de Liaison Européen des Commissionaires
et Auxilliaires de Transports du Marché Commun (Alliance of forwarders of EU countries in Brussels)
CMR
(Convention relative au contrat de transport international de
marchandises par route)
Convention on the contract of carriage in international road traffic
COD
Payment term Cash on delivery
Collico
Reusable rail-owned collapsible boxes made of steel or light
metal sheets
Compliance Office
IATA office monitoring compliance with IATA resolutions
Conditional booking
Provisional, non-binding reservation of a ship's freight capacity
Congestion Surcharge
Amount charged additionally due to port's congestion
Connex right of lien
Right of lien which can be exercised only for cargo directly
related to the claim
CONNI price system
Transfracht price system applied for national
container shipments
Consignee
Receiver of goods
COTIF
(Convention relative aux transports internationaux ferroviaires)
Convention on international rail traffic
C/P
Charter Party (contract of carriage in tramp navigation)
CPT
Incoterm Carriage paid
Cross-Trader
Vessels operating international regular navigation services without
calling at a port of the country
of their registration
CSC
Container Service Charge
CSP
Container Service Port (port offering inward and outward bound
FCL and LCL container services only
by liner vessels)
CST
Container Service Tariff
CT B/L
Combined Transport Bill of Lading (B/L issued for all shipments
shipped in containers in compliance of container service tariffs)
CTO
Combined Transport Operator (Forwarder rendering combined traffic
and operating as carrier, see MTO)
CY
Container yard (container depot)
D
D/A
Payment term Documents against acceptance
DAF
Incoterm Delivered at frontier
DDP
Incoterm...Delivered duty paid
DDU
Incoterm...Delivered duty unpaid
Decade
Period of ten days
Declare
Making a full statement of dutiable cargo
Delivery order
Stipulations on cargo's delivery
DES
Incoterm...Delivered ex ship
DEQ
Incoterm...Delivered ex quai
DFK
Duisburg freight convention (signed in the city
of Duisburg)
DFÜ
Remote data transfer
DgebrZT
German Customs tariff
DGR
(Air traffic) Dangerous Goods Regulations
Dispache
Statement listing damages and determining a fair division of
loss between insurers both of ship and cargo costs in the event of general average
Dispacheur
Expert adjusting general average
Disposable jurisdiction
Flexible jurisdiction (amendable by contract)
Distribution
Delivery
D/P
Documents against payment
dwcc
Deadweight cargo carrying capacity
E
EE
Import declaration
EFTA
European Free Trade Association
EG/EU
European Community / European Union
EG
Import licence
EKM
Statistical import control report
Endorsement
Signature on the back of order papers as a mark of transmission
ERA
Unified directions on use of document l/c's
ESTA
European society for heavy duty shipments automobile cranes
EUROP
European freight car union
EUSt
Turnover tax on imports
EV
Supplementary contract
EVO
Rail traffic regulations
EWG
European Economic Community
EXW
Incoterm Ex works
EZC
European Zone Charge (Tariff as basis for shipowners to calculate
containers's haulage when Carrier´s Haulage has been agreed)
F
FAK Rates
Freight all kinds (flat-rate tariff irrespective of kind of cargo)
FAS
Incoterm Free alongside ship
Fault freight, dead freight
Freight rate charterer has to pay in the event of withdrawal
from the contract prior to despatch
FBL
FIATA Combined Transport Bill of Lading
(FIATA-B/L for combined traffic Forwarders, Through Bill of Lading)
FCA
Incoterm Free carrier
FCL
Full Container Load
FCR
Forwarders Certificate of Receipt
FCT
Forwarders Certificate of Transport (Forwarders through shipping
document)
Feeder service
Additional service rendered to deliver / pick up cargo to and
from ports / regions not directly called by the shipping lines' container ships
FIATA
Fédération Internationale des Associations de Transporteurs
et Assimilés
(International Forwarders Association)
Flat
Container size platform with fixed front walls as cargo support
FOB
Incoterm Free on board
Freight contract
(1) Under a freight contract, haulier is obliged to ship cargo
to its destination and to deliver it to consignee
(2) Under a freight contract, sender is obliged to pay agreed freight charges.
Franchise
Limit beyond which an insurance company does not come up for
partial loss
Frankatur
Prepayment Note
FTB
Freight rates and tariffs of inland navigation
FWR
FIATA Warehouse Receipt
G
GATT
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
GbV
Ordinance on the appointment and instruction of
dangerous goods advisers in companies (Appointment of dangerous goods advisers ordinance)
GGVBinSch
Ordinance concerning the carriage of dangerous
goods by inland waterways
GGVE
Ordinance concerning the carriage of dangerous
goods by rail
GGVS
Ordinance concerning the carriage of dangerous
goods by road
Greyhound system
Reduced rates of duty are granted each applicant until an overall
quota has been exhausted
GüKG
Road haulage act
GüKUMT
Long and short haul tariff for removals and merchandise
furniture shipments in furniture transporters
GVB
Society for traffic administration and logistics
gVV
Standardized export procedure applied by EU member
states
H
Haulage
Pre- and Oncarriage
H.L.
Heavy lift (Additional amount charged by ocean shippers )
HZA
Chief customs office
I
IATA
International Air Transport Association (Umbrella organization
of air cargo operators)
ICAO
International Civil Aviation Organization
ICC
Institute Cargo Clauses (Transport insurance clauses)
ICC
International Chamber of Commerce
ICH
IATA Clearing House (Central accounting board of IATA member
states)
Id-Nr.
Identification number for charging turnover tax
Igloo
Air cargo loading appliances
IMCO
International Maritime Consultative Organization (United Nations
organisation)
IMDG-Code
International Maritime Dangerous Goods Code (International code
for dangerous goods sea shipments)
IMO
International Maritime Organization (IMCO follow-up organisation
founded 1982)
Incoterms
International Commercial Terms expressing the sharing of costs
and risks between buyer and seller
Inkonnex right of lien
Right of lien which can be exercised for all claims (contractual
right of lien which supersedes the legal right of lien)
Integrator
Forwarder rendering door-to-door shipments including forwarder's
service
Interline agreement
Agreement concluded among airline operators on the mutual acknowledgement
of transport documents and for standardizing mutual accounting
INTRASTAT
Statistics on the goods flow among EU countries
IRU
International Road Transport Union
ISO
International Standardization Organization
IWF
IMF International Monetary Fund
J
JIT
Just in time (delivery) at the precise moment
K
Obligation to contract
Legal obligation to conclude a carriage contract (i.g. for the
national railways company)
KVO
Road haulage regulations
KWZ
Low water surcharge (Freight surcharge for cargo
shipped on inland waterways
at exceptionally low water levels)
L
Label
Tag marking cargo, is essential for air cargo shipments. Each
place has to be marked by labels indicating AWB number, airport of destination, marking and consignee
LASH carrier
Lighter Aboard Ship carrier
L/C Letter of credit
Warranty of buyer's bank to effect payment in favour of seller
(creditor = beneficiary) provided the latter implements his obligations from the sales contract
LCL
Less than Container Load (Part load of a container stuffed in
port)
Liner Terms
Transport terms of a shipping line
L.L.
Length lift (Ocean shipping surcharge)
LNGT
Tariff of air cargo accessory charges
Loading time
Maximal permissable period for loading or unloading cargo
Loading weight
Loading capacity, loading weight
Loco-Cargo
Consignee of Groupage cargo shipment is located at seat of deconsolidator.
So cargo does not have
to be shipped beyond local place (lat. locus)
LVG
Civil aviation act
M
Manifest
Register of all consignments loaded aboard a ship / plane
Margin
Scope between minimal and maximal limits
Margin tariff
Tariff not providing for fixed charges, but for freight charges
within a certain margin
MAWB
Master air waybill (Air waybill applied for consolidation cargo)
MH
Merchant´s haulage (Container's trucking done by sender
or forwarder)
MTO
Multimodal Transport Operator (Freight forwarder operating combined
shipments and thus acting as carrier), see CTO
Multimodal shipment
Multistage shipment operated by several carriers. Combined international
shipment
MWM
Unit of measurement to indicate a removal vehicle's
capacity (1 MWM = 5 m³)
N
Neutralise
Removing signs of origin
NL
Carrying capacity, payload
Notify-Adress
Adress stated in the order B/L to be contacted by shipping line
to advice ship's arrival
NRT
Net register ton
NRZ
Net space figure: Proportinal figure indicating
a ship's commercial space (Cargo hold, passengers' cabins etc.)
NRZZ
Nomenclature of the Council for customs cooperation
NVOCC
Non Vessel Operating Common Carrier (Freight forwarder operating
as shipowner without running own ships)
NVP
Local traffic price list
O
ÖTV
Trade union of Public servants and the transport
and traffic sector
ORKB
Upper Rhine conditions of B/L
Outsider
Shipowner operating a line without entering into a conference
OZL
Bonded warehouse
P
Police
Insurance certificate
Pool agreement
Alliance of companies to share profit from joint (pool) operations
under a certain ratio formula
Freight pools are common among shipowners
R
Refund / rebate
Supplementary reduction of freight charges
RFS
Road Feeder Service (Cargo haulage from and to airports)
RGST
Guidelines for wide-body and heavy-lift shipments
RICo
Regulations on international container rail shipments
RID
Réglement internationale concernant le transport des marchandises
dangereuses par chemin de fer
(Regulations on international dangerous goods shipments by rail)
RIEx
International express rail cargo shipments
RIP
Regulations on international rail shipments by private waggons
RIV
Regolamento Internazionale Veicoli (Regulations on the multilateral
use of rolling stock in international traffic) - short: International Wagon Union
Ro/Ro
Roll on/Roll off (Technology used for loading and unloading trucks
and other "rolling" cargo onto and from ships
Road Railer
Trailer train. Semi truck trailers loaded on a siding on bogie
wagons and composed into a full train
Roadstead port
Port with shallow water, so that ships anchor in some distance
from the shore ("in the roads")
for loading and unloading which is handled by lighters or via pipelines
Rolling road
Special form of combined rail - road - shipments with whole truck
trailers or semi-trailer trucks being transported on low-bed rail waggons
RVS
Cartage insurance certificate
S
Shipping Company
Group of persons jointly owning a ship and using it to gain profit
from commercial marine shipments
for joint account
Shipowner
Owner of a ship used to gain profit from commercial marine shipments
Ship register
District court's register listing a port's entire fleet of ships
SDR
Special Drawing Rights with the IMF - fictitious money as a calculation
basis
(e.g. for maximal liability under CMR)
SDT
Shipper´s Declaration for the Transportation of Dangerous
Goods
SGKV
Society for studies into combined traffic
Single administrative document
Standardized customs document used in all EU countries
Slot
Segment of a container ship's cell into which a container is
loaded
SLVS
Freight forwarder's-logistics-and-warehousing
insurance policy
SMGS
Soglaschenije Meshdunarodnyh Grusowyh Ssoobschtschenii (International
rail traffic agreement
of Eastern European states)
SOLAS
International Convention on the Safety of Life at Sea
Split-Charter
Charter with acquired capacity split for use among several clients
Splitting
Applied by Road hauliers to split the maximal permitted loading
weight under one concession into permissions for several trucks of max. 30 tons
SST
Sea port forwarder's tariff
Stripping
Unloading cargo out of container
Stuffing
Loading cargo into container
StVG
Road traffic act
StVO
Road traffic regulations
StVZO
Road traffic registration regulations
Surcharge
Amount charged to settle additional costs in ocean shipping
SVG
Road hauliers' cooperative
SVS/RVS
Freight forwarder's insurance policy / cartage
insurance policy
SZR
Special Drawing Rights - see SDR
T
TACT
The Air Cargo Tariff
Tally company
Company measuring sea cargo and monitoring cargo's loading onto
ship
TBL
Through Bill of Lading
tdw
Deadweight all told (vessel's loading
capacity)
TC
(IATA's) Traffic Conference
Terminal
Berth at which a container ship is loaded or unloaded
TEU
Twenty foot equivalent unit (Measure of container's loading
capacity,
converted into 20 feet units)
TFG
Transfracht Deutsche Transportgesellschaft
GmbH
- German container carrier
THC
Terminal Handling Charges - charged for container's lifting from
quay to ship / from ship to quay
Three-Letter-Code
Three-letter-Code indicating airports and airlines
Tidal port
Port navigable only during high tide
TIR
Transport International des Marchandises par la Route
(Preferential forwarding procedure for the truck haulage of bonded goods)
TKF
Tariff commission on long distance haulage
TKM
Tariff commission on furniture shipments
tkm
Indicator of vehicles or forwarding company's performance - figure
expressing proportion of tonnage moved per kilometer
Trade Terms
National commercial terms
Trailer
Non self-propelled vehicle coupled on a motor tractor
Traject
Trainferry
Transaction value
Invoice amount as basis for determination of customs value
Transshipment
Reloading
Transit
Passage
TRG
Act on the reform of transport law
TVG
Act on collective agreement on union wage rates
U
UIC
(Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer) - International railway
union
UIRR
International union of pick-a-back service providers
UKV
Transshipment company operating combined shipments
ULCC
Ultra Large Crude Carrier (Tank vessel with min. capacity of
320 000 tdw)
ULD
Unit Load Device (Loading unit, i.e. one pallet)
ULD-Rates
Air shipment container rates
ÜLG
Overseas countries and areas
USL
Forwarding and warehousing consultant
Uz
Declaration of origin
V
VAE
Export declaration
VAD
Value added tax
Valorizes-insurance
Insurance of valuables
VBGL
Conditions of contract for road haulage and logistics
operators (registered with the Federal road haulage, disposal and logistics association)
Visby Rules
International agreement on the contract of sea carriage, stipulating,
among others, conditions of liability
VLCC
Very Large Crude Carrier (Large tank vessel with min. capacity
of 160 000 tdw)
W
WA (or WAK)
Warsaw agreement on the standardization of conditions
of passengers' and luggage carriage in international air traffic
Waiver clause
Client's statement to refrain from insurance coverage on cargo
damages for national shipments
Warehouse receipt
Receipt issued by warehouse manager on cargo's acceptance for
storage
WGT
Economic goods tariff
WPA
With particular average (former cover of Institute Cargo Clauses,
since 1983 replaced by clause B)
WTO
World Trade Organization
WVB
Movement certificate guaranteeing preferential
customs clearance
Y
York-Antwerp-Rules
International rules on general average
Z
ZG
Customs act
ZK
Customs code
ZK-DVO
Ordinance on the implementing of the Customs code
ZnA
Customs clearance by documents
ZnG
Customs clearance after being exempted from obligation
to present cargo before customs officers
ZnV
Customs clearance by simplified customs declaration