The shipping industry has a language all of its own

Commercial Freight

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 is 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 phased:

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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