Shipping Glossary

Pilot on Board; or Post Office Box

Port of Discharge; or Pay on delivery; or Place of Delivery - where goods are delivered and Carrier's liability ceases. Or Proof of Delivery - A signed receipt acknowledging delivery.

Port of Loading/Place of Loading

Place of Receipt; or Port of refuge (p.o.r.); or Port of Registry.

Per pro. (on behalf of)/Picked ports

Perishable Products Export Control Board

Planned Position Indicator (radar screen)

Parcel size distribution

Pre-shipment inspection

Port side – left side of ship

U.K. Port to Port. U.S. Pier to Pier.

Quality

Quotation (qn.)

Query

Rail

Refer to drawer

Running Down clause

Required freight rate

Received for shipment

Retained/Railed in bond

Registro Italiano Navale

Road Motor Transport

Release Note. Receipt signed by Customer acknowledging delivery of goods.

Roll On-Roll Off. A ferry type vessel onto which goods and containers can be driven, usually via a ramp.

Rate per Ton

Radio Telephone

Redelivery

Refrigerated Digital Control

Ship fitted with refrigerated cargo installation; Refraction; Reference

U.K. Single Administrative Document. Customs Declaration Form for both import and export cargo.

Southbound

Segregated ballast tanks

Straight Consignment-Automatic Release

Stowage Co-ordination Centre

Suez canal net ton

U.K. Simplified Clearance Procedure. A simplified clearance procedure, under which Exporters of goods not requiring special control may submit an abbreviated Customs pre-entry or an approved commercial document at the time of export and provide the full statistical information after the goods are exported.

Sailed

Summer dead weight

Shipper’s Export Documentation

Shear force; stowage factor

Shipping and Forwarding Agent

Sundays and Holidays excluded

Sundays and Holidays excepted Even if used

Sundays and Holidays excepted unless used

Sundays and Holidays included

Shipping Instruction/Short interest

Sue and labour

Shipping Master

Shipping Note

Ship Operator; Sellers option; Stop order - placed by customs on goods not correctly cleared or required for inspection.

Shipped On Board. Endorsement on a Bill of Lading confirming loading of goods on vessel.

Shipowner's Liability

Safety of life at sea Convention

Save our souls

Steamship

U.K. Standard Shipping Note

Sailing Vessel

Salt Water

Safe Working Load; Statutory Water Level

Sunday and Holidays included

Shipment (Shpt.)

Shipping

Shipside

Transatlantic Round Voyage

To be nominated/narrowed

Till countermanded; Time Charter

Technical Compatibility Agreement

Time charter hire

Terminal deadline

Tween deck

Twenty-foot Equivalent Unit. eg. 1 x 40ft = 2 TEU; 1 x 20ft = 1 TEU.

Tropical fresh water zone load line mark

Terminal Handling Charge. A charge for handling FCLs at ocean terminals. Also known as a Container/Port Service Charge.

Turn-in Reconciliation; Eu. Transports International Routiers - A system involving the issue of a carnet to road hauliers which allows loaded vehicles to cross national frontiers with minimum Customs formalities; U.S. Trailer Interchange Receipt - receipt to shipper delivering a loaded export container to a terminal.

Total Loss (T/L)

Terminal Operator; Transshipment Order; Transfer Order.

Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights

Transshipment. Transfer from one vessel to another for on carriage.

Terminal ship planner

Transit Time

Through Transport Operator. A Carrier who contracts to carry goods (only part of which carriage he undertakes himself) on the basis that he is a principal whilst the goods are in his personal care and an agent only whilst they are not.

Temperature; Temporary

Tank (Ta)

Tonnage

Twin screw ship

U.S. Uniform Commercial Code.

Ultra large crude (oil) carrier

United Nations

Uncontainerable Goods. Goods which, because of their dimensions, cannot be containerised and which are therefore carried other than in a container.

Underwriting Office

Unusable i.e. damaged container

Upper deck

Unserviceable

Underwriter (uw; u/w)

Value Added Tax

Variable charge; valuation clause

Valuation Determination Number

Very large crude carrier

Vessel

With average