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A charge for services performed in connexion with floating elevators.– Charges assessed for the handling of grain through grain elevators.
Industry:Transportation
A short semi–trailer used jointly with a dolly and another semi–trailer to create a twin trailer.
Industry:Transportation
An extra charge sometimes added to steamship freight rates; justified by higher fuel costs. Also known as Fuel Adjustment Factor or FAF.
Industry:Transportation
This type of clause covers merchandise if the damage amounts to three percent or more of the insured value of the package or cargo. If the vessel burns, sinks, or collides, all losses are fully covered. In marine insurance, the word average describes partial damage or partial loss.
Industry:Transportation
Customs form used to control cargo movement from port of entry to port of exit, meaning that the cargo is moving from one country, through the United States, to another country.
Industry:Transportation
A maritime term referring to fuel used aboard the ship. In the past, fuel coal stowage areas aboard a vessel were in bins or bunkers.
Industry:Transportation
This type of insurance offers the shipper the broadest coverage available, covering against all losses that may occur in transit.
Industry:Transportation
Water transportation term applicable to shipments between ports of a nation; commonly refers to coastwise or intercoastal navigation or trade. Many nations, including the United States, have cabotage laws which require national flag vessels to provide domestic interport service.
Industry:Transportation
In water transportation, the deliberate sacrifice of cargo to make the vessel safe for the remaining cargo.Those sharing in the spared cargo proportionately cover the loss.
Industry:Transportation
