SLOVAR

ADR

B.A.F.
Bunker Adjustment Factor (compensation factor for changing fuel costs)

B/L
Bill of Lading (transport document)

C.A.F.
Currency Adjustment Factor (compensation factor for the various currencies)

C.F.S.
Container Freight Station (warehouse where the containers are loaded or unloaded)

CKD
Completely Knocked Down (Car)

COD
Cash on Delivery

Conference Line
Conference Line Shippers are members of a committee

Container
A container is an ISO standardized utility designed especially for the transportation of goods with several me ans of transportation without transshipment. Containers are made of steel, aluminum or glass fibre-reinforced synthetic material. Usually they have a soil and wall capacity of 2.5 t per cubic meter. In the international maritime traffic 20', 40' and increasingly also 45' containers are used.

cu.ft. or cft
Cubic foot (feet)

C.Y.
Container Yard (a place where FCL shipments and empty containers will be assumed by the customer or be delivered by the ship owner to the customer)

C/S
Congestion Surcharge (surcharge for waiting time in the ports)

C.S.C.
Container Service Charge (costs for a country -sided handling of FCL containers at a "free on board" delivery)

C-TPAT
USA Customs-Trade Partnership against Terrorism: Following the events of September 11, 2001 the United States Government has increased efforts to enhance national security. As a major and global freight forwarder, Kuehne + Nagel has decided to follow the request from the Commissioner of Customs to participate in the initiative to strengthen the security of the supply chain.

DETENTION
Per diem (charge on container held by customers for an extended period of time)

D/A
Delivery Agent D.O. or D/O Delivery Order

E.C.B.
Express Cargo Bill of Lading (freight document, not an ownership document)

EFTA
European Free Trade Association

E.T.A.
Estimated Time of Arrival (scheduled arrival time of ship)

E.T.D.
Estimated Time of Departure (scheduled departure time of ship)

FCL
Full Container Load (full container service)

FCL/FCL
Full container service from door to door including the overland transport

FCL/LCL
Consignments in one container from a sender for several recipients

FIATA
FIATA, in French "Fédération Internationale des Associations de Transitaires et Assimilés", in English "Internat ional Federation of Freight Forwarders Associations". FIATA, a non-governmental organisation, represents today an industry covering approx. 40,000 forwarding firms, also known as the "Architects of Transport", employing around 8 - 10 million people in 150 countries

F.A.K. (FAK)
Freight All Kind

FAS
Free Alongside Ship

FB/L
Forwarders Bill of Lading

FCR
Forwarders Certificate of Receipt

FCT
Forwarders Certificate of Transport

FEU
Forty Feet Equivalent Unit

F.I. (FI)
Free In F.O. (FO) Free Out

F.I.O. (FIO)
Free In and Out

F.I.O.S. (FIOS)
Free In and Out Stowed

FMC
Federal Maritime Commission, Washington D.C.

FOB
Free on Board

GATT
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade

HBL
House Bill of Lading (Forwarder's B/L)

INCOTERMS
Incoterms make international trade easier and help traders in different countries to understand one another. These standard trade definitions that are most commonly used in international contracts are protected by ICC copyright.

ICC
International Chamber of Commerce

IMDG- code
International maritime dangerous goods code

IMO
International Maritime Organization (mainly IMDG)

ISO
International Standardization Organization

IMF/IWF
International Monetary Fund


JIT
Just in Time

JOT
Just on Time

LCL
Less than Container Load (partial deliveries)

LCL/LCL
Partial deliveries, which are put into one container at the container freight station and separated at the destination port.

LCL/FCL
Consignments transported in one container from several shippers for one recipient

M/V
Motor Vessel (high seas ship)

M.S.
Motor Ship

M/W or W/M
Measurement/Weight or Weight/Measurement (calculation unit of ocean freight based on tonnes or cubic meters)

M/T
Measurement Ton (40 cuft.) in Far East but also Metric Ton

MTO
Multimodal Transport Operator

POL
Port Of Loading

POD
Port Of Discharge

Stuffing
Loading of container

Stripping
Unloading of container

SACO
cons olidated Container

SDR
Special Drawing Rights

SOC
Shipper's Own Container


THC
Terminal Handling Charge (container handling costs)

TBL
Through Bill of Lading

TEU
Twenty Foot Equivalent Unit

THC
Terminal Handling Charges

TSCS
Transsiberian Container Service

TSR
Transsiberian Railway

TCB
Terms and Conditions BAL

UCP
Uniform Customs and Practice for Documentary Credit

UNCTAD
United Nations Conference of Trade and Development

VOCC
Vessel Operating Common Carrier

W/M
Weight Ton or Measurement

W or WT
Weight

WTO
World Trade Organization