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Charges & Free Time(16)

Accessorial Service · Allowed Free Time · Applicable Rule · Daily Rate · Date of Container Availability · Demurrage Charges

Customs & Compliance(25)

Ad Valorem Duty · Administrative Monetary Penalty System (AMPS) · AES Filing · Apparent Authority · Arbitration · Automated Broker Interface (ABI)

Documents & Trade Finance(20)

Advice of Shipment · Advising bank · Air waybill · Apparent Good Order · Arrival notice · Bill of Lading (BOL)

Container & Terminal Operations(35)

Awkward cargo · Break bulk cargo · Chassis · Consolidation · Container · Container Discharge

Vessel & Liner Service(16)

Affreight · Affreightment Contract of · Charter party · Deadweight tonnage (DWT) · Feeder vessel · Lift-on/Lift-off (LoLo)

Tracking & Visibility(14)

API (Application Programming Interface) · Container Milestones · Container Number(s) · Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) · ETA (Estimated Time of Arrival) · Exception Alerts

Carriers, Forwarders & Parties(13)

Agent (Agt.) · Air Freight Forwarder · Also Notify Party · BCO (Beneficial Cargo Owners) · Broker · Carrier

Rates, Pricing & Costs(23)

Ad Valorem · Ad Valorem Freight · All commodity rate · All inclusive rate (AI) · Allowance · Arbitrary

Operations & Logistics(29)

Actual Demand · Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) · Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) · Backhaul · Carrier Booking · Drayage

Cost Accounting(16)

Accrual · Activity Dictionary · Activity Driver · Activity Level · Activity Ratio · Activity-Based Costing (ABC)

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Accessorial Service Accrual Activity Dictionary Activity Driver Activity Level Activity Ratio Activity-Based Costing (ABC)Activity-Based Costing Model Activity-Based Costing System Activity-Based Management (ABM)Activity-Based Planning (ABP)Actual Cost System Actual Costs Actual Demand Actual to Theoretical Cycle Time Ad Valorem Ad Valorem Duty Ad Valorem Freight Administrative Monetary Penalty System (AMPS)Advance Material Request Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS)Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS)Advice of Shipment Advising bank AES Filing Affreight Affreightment Contract of Agent (Agt.)Air Freight Forwarder Air waybill All commodity rate All inclusive rate (AI)Allowance Allowed Free Time Also Notify Party API (Application Programming Interface)Apparent Authority Apparent Good Order Applicable Rule Arbitrary Arbitration Arrival notice Automated Broker Interface (ABI)Awkward cargo

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Backhaul BCO (Beneficial Cargo Owners)Bill of Lading (BOL)Blanket Purchase Order Blanket Purchase Order Bonded warehouse Break bulk cargo Broker Bunker adjustment factor (BAF)

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Daily Rate Date of Container Availability Deadweight tonnage (DWT)Demurrage Charges Detention Devanning Dock receipt Draft Drayage Drop shipment Drop Trailer Dunnage Duty Dwell Time

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Earliest Return Date (for Exports)Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)Embargo Empty Return ETA (Estimated Time of Arrival)Exception Alerts Exception Rate Expedited Shipment

F

FCL (Full Container Load)Federal Maritime Commission (FMC)Feeder vessel Firm Code Flat rack container Flexibility Free on Board (FOB)Free time Freight Bill Freight Forwarder Fuel Surcharge (FSC)Full Out Full Truckload (FTL)

G

Gate In Date Gross Weight

H

Handling Costs Harmonized System (HS) code Holds

I

Importer of Record (IOR)Inbound Logistics Incoterms (International Commercial Terms)Inland Container Logistics Intermodal Transportation

J

Joint Rate Just-In-Time (JIT) inventory

K

Key Performance Indicator (KPI)

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Landed Costs Last Free Day (LFD)Last-Mile Delivery LCL (Less than Container Load)Lead Time Less-Than-Truckload (LTL)Letter of credit (L/C)Lift-on/Lift-off (LoLo)Line-Haul Shipment Liner service Logistics Management Lumper Fee

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Manifest Marine Terminal Operators (MTO)Market Demand Mileage Rate Must-Arrive-By Date (MABD)

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Net Weight Non-Vessel Operating Common Carrier (NVOCC)

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Ocean Freight Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 2022 OSRA On Time Delivery Rate On-Carriage Open top container Order Fulfillment Out-of-gauge (OOG)

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Packing list Pallet Paperless Trade Per Diem Phytosanitary certificate Place of Delivery Place of Receipt Port Port Congestion Port of discharge Port of lading (loading)Pre-Alert / Arrival Notice Pre-Carriage Pro forma invoice

Q

Quotation

R

Real-Time Visibility Reefer Reefer Container Request for Proposal (RFP)Request for Proposal (RFP)Reverse Logistics RFID RoRo (Roll-on/Roll-off)

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Scalability Seawaybill Shipper Shipper Letter of Instruction Shipping Instructions Short-sea shipping Slow Steaming Start and End Dates of Free Time Steamship Line (SSL)Storage Supply Chain Visibility

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Terminal TEU (Twenty-foot Equivalent Unit)TMS (Transportation Management System)Total Amount Due:Tracking ID Transshipment

U

Unit Load Device (ULD)

V

Verified Gross Mass (VGM)Vessel Vessel Schedule Reliability Vessel Tracking

W

Warehouse Management Waybill Wharf

Y

Yard

Z

Zone

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Carriers, Forwarders & Parties(13)

Rates, Pricing & Costs(23)

Operations & Logistics(29)

Cost Accounting(16)

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