Is the time that a vessel or any other mode of transportation is arrived at its destination in real time.
the bulk goods or merchandise conveyed by water, air, or land.
A bill of lading (BL or BoL) is a legal document issued by a carrier (transportation company) to a shipper that details the type, quantity, and destination of the goods being carried. A bill of lading also serves as a shipment receipt when the carrier delivers the goods at a predetermined destination. This document must accompany the shipped products, no matter the form of transportation, and must be signed by an authorized representative from the carrier, shipper, and receiver.
The Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System, also known as the Harmonized System (HS) of tariff nomenclature is an internationally standardized system of names and numbers to classify traded products.
The notify party is the contact person to be notified when the shipment arrives at destination. This field is usually only required if it’s different from the party listed in the consignee field. The notify party can be the buyer himself, the shipping agent, or any other entity.
The manifest is a list of all goods, listed per Bill of Lading, which was loaded onto the ship in one certain port and which has a single certain destination.
The Port of Unlading is the foreign port where your goods are unloaded. It is also referred to as the Port of Discharge.
The port taken into account is the port where the goods were loaded on a seagoing vessel to be transported by it.
Place of Receipt is an item on a B/L indicating the location where a cargo is received from the shipper by the carrier. The responsibility for transport of the carrier starts from place of receipt.
A carrier code is a four-character unique identifier that is assigned by the CBSA to identify a carrier. Only one carrier code is issued to each legal entity (corporation, partnership or sole proprietorship) per mode of transport (highway, marine, air or rail).
It indicates when a vehicle, cargo ship, or other modes of transportation will arrive at its final destination. Arrival estimates are used to give customers an approximation of when the vehicle carrying their goods will arrive at their location.
If the shipment is moving to an interior location where it will be cleared with U.S. Customs, the shipment will move on a bond type-61, or I.T. bond. Most large carriers have a bond posted with U.S. Customs that lets them transport goods moving ‘In Bond’.
There are 2 types VESSEL, containerized & VESSEL, non-container. Non-Containerised Cargo refers to goods shipped in pieces separately without the use of a container. Containerised Cargo refers to goods shipped in big Containers.
The container number is the most important and complex marking on the door and is a unique alpha-numeric sequence of four letters and seven numbers to identify containers internationally.
It is the code of the country under which the following ship is sailing under the flag of that country.
House Bill of Lading is a document generated by an Ocean Transport Intermediary freight forwarder or non-vessel operating company. The document is an acknowledgement of the receipt of goods that are shipped, issued to the suppliers when the cargo is received. This Bill of Lading is also known as Forwarders Bill of Lading.
Master Bill of Lading is a document that is created for shipping companies by their carriers as a receipt of transfer. The document specifies the terms that are required for transporting the freight, details of the consignor or the shipper, the consignee and the respective person who possess the goods.