AWB:
Air Waybill
Accessorial Providers/Charges:
Providers offered by an airline along with the traditional transportation service. These expenses usually are not included within the primary weight charge cost.
Widespread accessorial companies embrace:
development of expenses, pick-up, supply, C.O.D. service, signature service, storage, demurrage, and loading/unloading.
Account Quantity:
A particular quantity assigned by any airline, to an authorized buyer, used for billing and different computerized features.
Precise Weight:
What the cargo truly weighs on a scale.
Advance Preparations:
The shipper should make preparations with the service previous to the supposed date of transport. See Reserving.
Development of Expenses:
A service beneath which airways, in some cases, pay incidental expenses arising earlier than or after airhaul. Examples would come with cartage and warehousing prices. These expenses may be paid upfront for the comfort of both the Shipper or Consignee.
Agent (IATA):
A forwarder, agent or dealer who’s acknowledged and authorized by IATA, appointed by a service and approved by the respective service to obtain and put together shipments and to gather expenses. See Cargo Gross sales Agent.
Air Freight:
The products for transport in any quantity, and the kind of service airways present to move the products. The time period mostly used is Cargo.
Air Freight Forwarder:
See Freight Forwarder
Air Waybill:
Transport doc utilized by the airways for air freight. It’s a contract for carriage between shipper and service overlaying Intra-US and worldwide transportation of cargo to a specified vacation spot. It contains service circumstances of carriage highlighting such objects as limits of legal responsibility and claims procedures. The Air Waybill additionally incorporates particular transport directions to airways, an outline of the commodity, and relevant transportation expenses. Air Waybills usually are not negotiable.
Airbill:
See Air Waybill
Plane:
Mostly used time period for airplane. See Tools.
Airport-to-Airport:
From one airport facility to a different airport facility. (No pick-up/supply service applies.)
Allotment:
A blocked house by airways, on behalf of forwarders / shippers.
Articles of Extraordinary Worth – (AEV):
Commodities recognized as high-value objects that require advance preparations and particular dealing with.
Meeting Service:
A service by which an airline assembles shipments from one or many shippers and transports them as one cargo (not essentially at one time or flight) to 1 Consignee.
Astray:
Cargo that’s touring with out paperwork or on paperwork rather than the unique
ATA:
Precise Time of Arrival, or Airport-To-Airport
Engaging Merchandise:
Commodities akin to cameras, radios, digital gear, and so forth., which can be dealt with as high-value shipments however not rated the identical.
Backhaul:
To maneuver a cargo again over a part of a route already traveled.
Banded/Banding:
Cargo wrapped and/or secured with steel or plastic strips
Financial institution Launch:
An import cargo requiring notification and launch from a financial institution or in care of a financial institution. The discharge have to be on the financial institution’s stationary and have to be an unique copy. Photocopies, fax, and telephone calls usually are not acceptable. Additionally see Letter Of Credit score
Stomach or Stomach Pits:
Compartments situated beneath the passenger deck used for cargo, baggage storage and mail.
Invoice of Lading:
A doc by which a service acknowledges receipts of products and contracts to maneuver them. The Air Waybill is a type of invoice of lading. See Air Waybill.
Bonded Service/Trucker:
A agency that has posted bond with the federal government and is licensed to hold and maintain of their amenities’ items that haven’t been granted a clearance by nations’ Customs Authorities.
Reserving:
A shipper has prearranged cargo house on a selected flight(s) making a reserving, or reservation. See Superior Preparations.
Dealer (Customs):
An individual or agency licensed by the Customs Authorities to transact enterprise with customs on behalf of importers for a price. See Customshouse Brokers
C.O.D.:
Acquire on Supply
C.O.D. Charge:
The price charged for amassing the COD quantity for the shipper.
CWT:
Hundred weight
Cargo:
The products for transport in any quantity, and the kind of service airways present to move the products. Exceptions:
(a) Mail or different property beneath the phrases of a global postal conference. (b) Baggage carried beneath a passenger ticket and baggage examine. Unaccompanied baggage transferring beneath an Air Waybill is cargo. See Air Freight.
Cargo Gross sales Agent:
An agent appointed by IATA to solicit and course of worldwide cargo for shippers. IATA Cargo Gross sales Brokers are paid commissions by the airways with out added value to the shipper or consignee. See Agent IATA
Cargo Switch:
Cargo arriving at a degree by one service and persevering with its journey by one other service. See Interline.
Carnet (ATA Carnet):
A doc issued by Chambers of Commerce, allowing the holder to hold or ship merchandise briefly into sure international nations (for show, demonstration, or related functions) with out paying duties or posting bonds.
Service:
A time period synonymous with airline. Every airline is a service of passengers and cargo.
Service Certificates:
A doc ready by the Service containing the grasp Air Waybill quantity, home Air Waybill quantity, flight quantity and date the cargo arrived and the storage date. The consignee/dealer wants this data in an effort to clear customs.
Certificates of Origin:
A doc to show the native land for specified items, required by sure international nations for tariff functions.
CNEE:
Consignee
Co-Loader:
The contributors in a consolidation apart from the grasp loader. Every supplies all of the documentation required for his or her cargo to the grasp loader. See Consolidation, MAWB, HAWB, Grasp Loader.
Acquire Expenses:
Expenses entered on the Air Waybill for assortment from the consignee. Freight accumulate, expenses ahead or expenses accumulate even have the identical that means.
Acquire on Supply – (C.O.D.):
A transportation service beneath which the acquisition value of the products is collected by the service from the receiver on the time of supply, and subsequently, fee is transmitted by the service to the shipper. Carriers cost a nominal price for this service. Because the time period COD implies, fee is due upon supply. There aren’t any credit score provisions in COD service.
Industrial Bill:
Shipper’s documentation describing the products and their worth which should accompany all worldwide and transborder shipments
Commodity Code:
A system for figuring out a given commodity by a quantity as a method of facilitating, for instance, the appliance of computerization to freight transportation.
Situations of Contract:
The phrases and circumstances established by the air carriers for the carriage of products. These circumstances are printed on the Air Waybill and embrace such objects as limits of legal responsibility, claims limitations, indemnity and dimensional weight guidelines.
Connection Time:
Allowable printed time to attach cargo from one flight to a different
Consignee:
The receiver of a cargo, or to whom the cargo is consigned
Consignment:
Cargo of a number of items of property, accepted by the service from one shipper, receipted for in a single lot, and moved on one Air Waybill, to 1 consignee at one vacation spot.
Consular Bill:
A doc required by some international nations, describing a cargo of products and displaying data of the cargo. It’s licensed by a consular official of the international nation. It’s utilized by the nation’s customs officers to confirm the worth, amount and nature of the cargo.
Container:
A transport system, airline offered or shipper offered, permitting a handy and decrease value technique of transport. See ULD – Unit Load Machine.
Containerization:
Using box-like or different unit load gadgets (ULD) by which various packages are saved, protected, and dealt with as a unit in transit. See Container and ULD.
Conversion Charge:
The speed used to transform one forex to a different. See Change Charge and Charge of Change.
Customs:
A authorities authority designated to control circulation of products to and from a rustic and to gather duties levied by a rustic on imports and exports. The time period additionally applies to the procedures concerned in such collections.
Customs Airport:
Designated airports in every nation which have customs amenities.
Customs Clearance:
A cargo should clear customs when it enters any nation from one other.
Customs Declaration:
An announcement, oral or written, testifying to the correctness of description, amount, worth, and so forth., of merchandise provided for importation into the U.S.
Customhouse Dealer:
A dealer who’s licensed by the Customs Authorities to behave for importers and different businessmen in dealing with the sequence of customs formalities and different particulars attendant to the authorized and expeditious importing of products.
Harmful Items:
Articles or substances that are able to posting a big threat to well being, security, or property when transported by air if not packaged in line with federal laws.
Declared Worth for Carriage:
The worth of products declared to the service by the shipper for the needs of figuring out expenses or establishing the restrict of the service’s legal responsibility for loss, injury, or delay.
Declared Worth for Customs:
The promoting value of the contents or the substitute value if the contents usually are not for resale. The quantity have to be equal to or better than the declared worth.
Supply Authorization Doc – (DAD):
A customs time period for a 7512 (I.T.) or a 3461 (Clearance) or a straight Air Waybill stamped by customs.
Division of Transportation – (DOT):
An govt division of the U.S. Authorities established by the Division of Transportation Act of 1966 for the aim of creating nationwide transportation insurance policies.
Vacation spot:
The ultimate cease of cargo that’s being transported. Generally known as the ultimate vacation spot. exists.
Diversion:
Touchdown at a location apart from the deliberate vacation spot
Documentation:
The required paperwork accompanying a cargo akin to an Air Waybill, a well being certificates, invoices, shipper’s export declaration, and so forth.
Dolly:
A chunk of apparatus with wheels, used to maneuver containers and pallets to/from the plane
Door-To-Door:
Used when pick-up and supply service applies.
Drop-Off:
Shipper delivers cargo(s) to the Air service for transportation. See Tender
Drop Time:
A printed time-frame at every airport metropolis when the shipper should drop off cargo previous to flight departure
Obligation:
A tax imposed on imports by the customs authority of a rustic. Duties are usually primarily based on the worth of products, different components akin to weight or amount limits, or a mixture of worth and different components
ETA:
Estimated Time of Arrival
ETD:
Estimated Time of Departure
Embargo:
Short-term refusal to simply accept cargo for transportation at sure factors or in sure routes because of the sort or class of cargo, limitations of amenities, emergencies, or different irregular circumstances.
Tools:
Used within the airline trade referring to plane or plane sort, i.e., DC-10, B-727, and so forth.
Escorts:
Individuals accompanying shipments on the identical plane
Estimated Time of Arrival – (ETA):
The time at which a flight is anticipated to reach as decided by working circumstances. It may possibly differ from the scheduled time of arrival.
Estimate Time of Departure – (ETD):
The time at which a flight is anticipated to depart as decided by working circumstances. It may possibly differ from the scheduled time of departure.
Exception Scores:
Charges set at a sure share above the overall commodity charges as a result of they apply to commodities that require particular dealing with, akin to stay animals and human stays. See Class Charge and Premium Charge
Extra Worth:
The quantity of declared worth on a cargo that’s over the service’s legal responsibility
Change Charge:
The worth of 1 forex by way of one other
Unique Truck:
A shuttle truck that operates completely for an airline
Export:
To ship or transport shipments out of a rustic on the market or use out of the country or for private functions.
Export Dealer:
A person or agency that brings collectively patrons and sellers for a price, however doesn’t participate in precise gross sales transactions.
Export License:
A authorities doc that allows the licensee (holder of license) to interact within the export of designated items to particular locations.
Companies Code:
A customs location code issued for every bonded warehouse or facility.
Flatbed Truck:
A shuttle truck that doesn’t have an enclosed trailer
Forwarder:
See Freight Forwarder.
Free domicile:
A time period utilized in worldwide transportation the place the shipper pays all transportation expenses and any relevant duties and/or taxes.
Freight Forwarder:
Serves a twin function. To the airways, the freight forwarder is a shipper. To their prospects, the freight forwarder is an oblique service or agent. The freight forwarder receives freight from prospects beneath his personal tariff, normally consolidating it into bigger shipments, prepares obligatory paperwork and makes preparations for transferring freight.
Freighter:
An plane that carries cargo solely, moderately than the mixture of passengers and cargo
GBL:
Authorities Invoice of Lading
GCR/GEN:
Basic Commodity Charge
Gateway Metropolis:
The primary port of entry into a rustic, or the final port earlier than exiting a rustic.
Basic Commodity:
Any cargo commodity that doesn’t warrant a particular or specified charge.
Basic Commodity Charge:
An air freight charge relevant on all commodities, besides these for which particular charges have been filed. Charges are primarily based on weight and distance and are printed for every pair of cities an airline serves.
Authorities Invoice of Lading – (GBL):
A doc issued by a authorities company used to request transportation of products and help the billing of similar together with service’s Air Waybill.
Gross Weight:
The load of the cargo together with all packing, blocking, platforms, particular bracing, and so forth., if required. (contains weight of unit load system, when relevant.)
HAWB (Home Air Waybill):
The person breakdown for every a part of a consolidation
Maintain for Choose-Up – (HFPU) (At Vacation spot):
Freight to be held on the service’s vacation spot location for pick-up by the recipient. See additionally Notify on Arrival.
Harmonized System – HS:
The Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System is a system for classifying items in worldwide commerce, figuring out a given commodity by a single quantity.
Hazardous Materials – (HAZ MAT):
A time period referring to harmful items
Well being Certificates:
A doc obtained from a licensed veterinarian that’s required to ship ALL stay warm-blooded animals.
Excessive Worth:
A time period used to determine each articles of extraordinary worth and engaging merchandise.
Human Stays/Embalmed Human Stays:
Intra-US and worldwide time period for deceased human our bodies. Generally known as HR
IAC:
Oblique Air Service
IATA:
Worldwide Air Transportation Affiliation
IATA Agent:
A forwarder/dealer that has been authorized and is acknowledged by IATA to obtain cargo, lower Air Waybills and different paperwork for carriers, and accumulate expenses for air shipments.
IATA Service:
An airline which is a member of IATA and should settle for, carry, and invoice for air shipments. Intra-US counterpart is ATA.
I.E.:
Speedy Exportation
I.T.:
Speedy Transport
Speedy Exportation:
Doc ready at port of departure for a cargo touring by the U.S., which can clear customs in a distinct nation.
Speedy Transport:
A doc ready on the first U.S. port of entry or used to amend the preliminary paperwork indicating the cargo is able to be transported onto the ultimate U.S. customs airport. On the event the place routing is altered, a direct transport doc have to be reissued to make sure that customs can determine actual location of products always till clearance is granted.
Import:
To carry international items into a rustic
Import License:
A doc required and issued by some nationwide governments authorizing importation of products into their particular person nations. See The Air Cargo Tariff – (TACT).
Inbond:
A time period utilized to air cargo coming into the USA. This designates a process beneath which U.S. Customs’ clearance of cargo is postponed till the cargo reaches an inland customs level moderately than at congested gateway cities. Cargo strikes beneath the service’s bond (posted with U.S. Customs) from the gateway to the inland customs port.
Inbond Entry:
Entry made on the first U.S. port by a bonded service or agent.
Incoterms:
Worldwide Industrial Phrases Maintained by the Worldwide Chamber of Commerce (ICC). This codification of phrases is utilized in international commerce contracts, to outline the purpose as much as which the vendor is liable for the supply of the products, and the purpose by which the chance of loss is transferred from the vendor to the customer. The final version, Incoterms 2000 incorporates 13 codes:
EXW – Ex – works FCA – Free Service (named place)
FAS – Free Alongside Ship (named port of cargo)
FOB – Free On Board
Oblique Air Service:
An entity which purchases cargo house from an airline and sells the house to different shippers. A freight forwarder is an oblique air service.
Worldwide Air Transport Affiliation (I.A.T.A):
The commerce and repair group for airways of greater than 100 nations serving worldwide routes
Interstate:
A cargo touring between states
Intrastate:
A cargo originating and terminating inside one state’s boundaries.
Issuing Service:
The service who points the Air Waybill
Joint Charge:
A single charge which applies for carriage over the strains of two or extra carriers and which is printed as a single quantity.
Kennel:
The enclosure by which a stay animal is shipped, mostly for canines and cats.
Kilo:
A world measure of weight containing 2.2046 kilos.
Identified Shipper:
An entity which ships its personal merchandise, and has a legitimate account quantity with an airline, or seems within the cargo profile checklist/cargo safety profile
Authorized Connection:
The period of time wanted to attach cargo from one plane to a different,or one airline to a different. Additionally known as connection time and switch time.
Letter Of Credit score:
A doc issued by a financial institution stipulating {that a} sure sum shall be paid to the beneficiary named beneath clearly said circumstances. It’s a technique of paying for items the place a purchaser establishes credit score with an area financial institution, clearly describing items to be bought. Upon receipt of documentation, the financial institution both is paid by the customer or takes title to items and transfers funds to vendor. NOTE:
On such events, the airline can not launch items to the last word consignee till a written launch is produced by the financial institution named on the Air Waybill.
Liner phrases:
Situations beneath which a transport firm will transport items, together with the quantity payable for carriage of the products
Reside Animals:
An airline time period to determine stay cargo
Native Charge:
Charge for shipments between metropolis pairs, all on the identical airline
Lockout:
A set time after which no cargo could also be despatched to be boarded on a flight
Lot:
Variety of items in a single cargo
Lot Label:
A label or stencil utilized to cargo figuring out the cargo by Air Waybill quantity, variety of items, precise weight of every piece, whole precise weight, vacation spot airport, date of cargo, and routing.
Decrease deck:
An plane compartment, beneath the Predominant Deck
Predominant deck:
Also referred to as Higher Deck. A freighter plane has it total higher deck geared up for primary deck sort of containers/pallets loading. There is no such thing as a primary deck sort of container/pallet at passenger plane
Grasp Air Waybill – (MAWB):
Air Waybill overlaying a consolidated consignment, displaying the consolidator as shipper
Grasp Loader:
The IATA agent who assumes the accountability for contracting with different brokers to assemble items for consolidation to the airways.
MET – Merchandise Enforcement Group:
A particular unit of US Customs
Minimal Cost:
The minimal quantity which applies for the transportation of air cargo service, regardless of how small the cargo
NAR:
No Authentication Required
NDR:
No Paperwork Required
NES:
Not Elsewhere Specified. An abbreviation which frequently seems in cargo tariffs together with NOS – Not In any other case Specified and presumably, NOIBN – Not In any other case Listed by Quantity.
NFO:
Subsequent Flight Out. A time period utilized by some shippers that means SPD – Small Package deal Supply.
NOA:
Notify On Arrival
NarLetterList-Physique Plane:
B-727, B-737, B-757 and A-320 are all examples of narLetterList-body plane.
Web Weight:
The precise weight of a cargo (not together with the load of the container / unit load system – (ULD)).
Nomination:
When an air service authorizes a bonded agent (forwarder, dealer) to replace Air Waybill data (grasp Air Waybill or home Air Waybill) on to customs by way of Air Manifest System
Non-Cease Flight:
A flight with no stops from origin to vacation spot
No Op:
Abbreviation for Not in operation, or doesn’t function.
No Present:
Shipper who fails to point out as much as ship an already booked cargo. Additionally, a cargo which fails to point out up at vacation spot off a flight.
Regular Processing Time:
A time-frame every airport metropolis publishes for restoration time.
Regular Charge:
The worldwide time period for the printed per pound or per kilo charge (between minimal cost and 45K/100L charge.)
NVD:
No Worth Declared
Offload:
Eradicating the cargo from the plane
On-Demand Truck:
A shuttle truck working provided that freight has been booked for it
On Hand – (OH):
Cargo is confirmed at a selected airport and out there for the shopper to pick-up.
One-Shot Truck:
A shuttle truck organized by a station on a one-time solely foundation
On-line:
A routing from origin to vacation spot on the designated service solely
Origin:
The purpose at which a cargo begins
Over-Pivot Weight:
The load in extra of the pivot weight. See Pivot Weight.
Over-the-Highway Truck:
Choose-up and supply service carried out past the same old radius of standard Air Cargo, Inc. pick-up and supply service. These shipments are usually by use of a invoice of lading or PRO.
Pallet:
A picket or steel base to which cargo is secured
