Location for loading and unloading containers at railroad terminal.

Group of carriers who discuss rates and common problems with options to file independent tariffs.

An approach to improving business operations through reinventing, reevaluating, redesigning and redoing.

Can be issued on the carrier's actual receipt or taking custody of goods, if requested goods are not yet necessarily loaded on board a vessel or other conveyance. This form of bill of lading would usually be switched to an on board bill of lading or added as an on board notation upon the actual loading of goods on board a vessel or other conveyance.

Refers to a refrigerated container.

A unit of interior capacity of ships.1 Register Ton = 100 cubic feet or 2,832 cubic metres.Also known as vessel ton.

Related parties are relationships that may affect the declared import value to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

Marine shipment that is transferred to its ultimate destination port after having been shipped to an intermediate point.

Cargo is released from the carrier to the consignee/ agent.

The process of moving the inventory of an item from a reserve storage location to the primary picking location or to another mode of storage in which picking is performed.

A formal request by a company or customer for information or prices on products/ services or a defined quotation to support customer needs.

A trucker may charge a residential delivery fee if delivering to a residential fee. Other costs may also be associated with a residential delivery.

A restow is a move where a container is off loaded from on board the ship and put back onto the ship either at the same stow position or a different stow position. This could be due to incorrect stowage of a container or a change of destination was requested at a later stage

Cargo to be returned to original place of receipt.

Number of tonnes which freight is paid for per ton.

Reverse Logistics is a rather general term. In its broadest sense, reverse logistics stands for all operations related to the reuse of products and materials. The management of these operations can be referred to as Product Recovery Management (PRM). PRM is concerned with the care of products and materials after they have been used. Some of these activities are, to some extent, similar to those occurring in the case of internal returns of defective items due to unreliable production processes. Reverse logistics refers however to all logistics activities the collection, disassembly and processing of used products, product parts and/or materials in order to ensure a sustainable (environmentally-friendly) recovery.

RoRo ships typically come with ramps or slips that allow workers to drive wheeled cargo on and off them.

Rolled cargo is cargo that could not be loaded onto the vessel it was scheduled to sail on because that vessel ran out of capacity.

Rules of origin are legal standards that determine how to treat goods from a tariff standpoint based on their country of origin.