AWB:
Air Waybill
Accessorial Services/Fees:
Services offered by an airline along with the conventional transportation service. These expenses should not included within the primary weight price cost.
Common accessorial providers embrace:
development of expenses, pick-up, supply, C.O.D. service, signature service, storage, demurrage, and loading/unloading.
Account Number:
A particular quantity assigned by any airline, to an accredited buyer, used for billing and different computerized features.
Actual Weight:
What the cargo really weighs on a scale.
Advance Arrangements:
The shipper should make preparations with the provider previous to the supposed date of delivery. See Booking.
Advancement of Charges:
A service below which airways, in some cases, pay incidental expenses arising earlier than or after airhaul. Examples would come with cartage and warehousing prices. These expenses might be paid prematurely for the comfort of both the Shipper or Consignee.
Agent (IATA):
A forwarder, agent or dealer who’s acknowledged and accredited by IATA, appointed by a provider and licensed by the respective provider to obtain and put together shipments and to gather expenses. See Cargo Sales Agent.
Air Freight:
The items 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:
Shipping doc utilized by the airways for air freight. It is a contract for carriage between shipper and provider overlaying Intra-US and worldwide transportation of cargo to a specified vacation spot. It consists of provider situations of carriage highlighting such gadgets as limits of legal responsibility and claims procedures. The Air Waybill additionally incorporates particular delivery directions to airways, an outline of the commodity, and relevant transportation expenses. Air Waybills should not negotiable.
Airbill:
See Air Waybill
Aircraft:
Most generally used time period for airplane. See Equipment.
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 Value – (AEV):
Commodities recognized as high-value gadgets that require advance preparations and particular dealing with.
Assembly 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:
Actual Time of Arrival, or Airport-To-Airport Attractive Merchandise:
Commodities akin to cameras, radios, digital gear, and many others., which are dealt with as high-value shipments however not rated the identical.
Backhaul:
To transfer a cargo again over a part of a route already traveled.
Banded/Banding:
Cargo wrapped and/or secured with steel or plastic strips
Bank Release:
An import cargo requiring notification and launch from a financial institution or in care of a financial institution. The launch have to be on the financial institution’s stationary and have to be an authentic copy. Photocopies, fax, and telephone calls should not acceptable. Also see Letter Of Credit
Belly or Belly Pits:
Compartments situated beneath the passenger deck used for cargo, baggage storage and mail.
Bill of Lading:
A doc by which a provider acknowledges receipts of products and contracts to maneuver them. The Air Waybill is a type of invoice of lading. See Air Waybill.
Bonded Carrier/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.
Booking:
A shipper has prearranged cargo house on a particular flight(s) making a reserving, or reservation. See Advanced Arrangements.
Broker (Customs):
An individual or agency licensed by the Customs Authorities to transact enterprise with customs on behalf of importers for a charge. See Customshouse Brokers
C.O.D.:
Collect on Delivery
C.O.D. Fee:
The charge charged for amassing the COD quantity for the shipper.
CWT:
Hundred weight
Cargo:
The items for transport in any quantity, and the kind of service airways present to move the products. Exceptions:
(a) Mail or different property below the phrases of a global postal conference. (b) Baggage carried below a passenger ticket and baggage verify. Unaccompanied baggage shifting below an Air Waybill is cargo. See Air Freight.
Cargo Sales Agent:
An agent appointed by IATA to solicit and course of worldwide cargo for shippers. IATA Cargo Sales Agents are paid commissions by the airways with out added value to the shipper or consignee. See Agent IATA
Cargo Transfer:
Cargo arriving at some extent by one provider and persevering with its journey by one other provider. See Interline.
Carnet (ATA Carnet):
A doc issued by Chambers of Commerce, allowing the holder to hold or ship merchandise quickly into sure international nations (for show, demonstration, or related functions) with out paying duties or posting bonds.
Carrier:
A time period synonymous with airline. Each airline is a provider of passengers and cargo.
Carrier Certificate:
A doc ready by the Carrier 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 info to be able to clear customs.
Certificate 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 members in a consolidation apart from the grasp loader. Each supplies all of the documentation required for his or her cargo to the grasp loader. See Consolidation, MAWB, HAWB, Master Loader.
Collect Charges:
Charges entered on the Air Waybill for assortment from the consignee. Freight gather, expenses ahead or expenses gather even have the identical which means.
Collect on Delivery – (C.O.D.):
A transportation service below which the acquisition value of the products is collected by the provider from the receiver on the time of supply, and subsequently, fee is transmitted by the provider to the shipper. Carriers cost a nominal charge for this service. As the time period COD implies, fee is due upon supply. There are not any credit score provisions in COD service.
Commercial Invoice:
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.
Conditions of Contract:
The phrases and situations established by the air carriers for the carriage of products. These situations are printed on the Air Waybill and embrace such gadgets as limits of legal responsibility, claims limitations, indemnity and dimensional weight guidelines.
Connection Time:
Allowable revealed time to attach cargo from one flight to a different
Consignee:
The receiver of a cargo, or to whom the cargo is consigned
Consignment:
Shipment of a number of items of property, accepted by the provider from one shipper, receipted for in a single lot, and moved on one Air Waybill, to 1 consignee at one vacation spot.
Consular Invoice:
A doc required by some international nations, describing a cargo of products and displaying info of the cargo. It is licensed by a consular official of the international nation. It is utilized by the nation’s customs officers to confirm the worth, amount and nature of the cargo.
Container:
A delivery machine, airline offered or shipper offered, permitting a handy and decrease value technique of delivery. See ULD – Unit Load Device.
Containerization:
The use of box-like or different unit load gadgets (ULD) through which quite a lot of packages are saved, protected, and dealt with as a unit in transit. See Container and ULD.
Conversion Rate:
The price used to transform one foreign money to a different. See Exchange Rate and Rate of Exchange. Customs:
A authorities authority designated to control stream 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:
A press release, oral or written, testifying to the correctness of description, amount, worth, and many others., of merchandise provided for importation into the U.S.
Customhouse Broker:
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.
Dangerous Goods:
Articles or substances that are able to posting a major danger to well being, security, or property when transported by air if not packaged in response to federal rules.
Declared Value for Carriage:
The worth of products declared to the provider by the shipper for the needs of figuring out expenses or establishing the restrict of the provider’s legal responsibility for loss, harm, or delay.
Declared Value for Customs:
The promoting value of the contents or the alternative value if the contents should not for resale. The quantity have to be equal to or higher than the declared worth.
Delivery Authorization Document – (DAD):
A customs time period for a 7512 (I.T.) or a 3461 (Clearance) or a straight Air Waybill stamped by customs.
Department of Transportation – (DOT):
An government division of the U.S. Government established by the Department of Transportation Act of 1966 for the aim of growing nationwide transportation insurance policies.
Destination:
The remaining cease of cargo that’s being transported. Sometimes known as the ultimate vacation spot. exists.
Diversion:
Landing 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 many others. Dolly:
A bit of kit 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 provider for transportation. See Tender
Drop Time:
A printed timeframe at every airport metropolis when the shipper should drop off cargo previous to flight departure
Duty:
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 mix of worth and different components
ETA:
Estimated Time of Arrival
ETD:
Estimated Time of Departure
Embargo:
Temporary refusal to simply accept cargo for transportation at sure factors or in sure routes as a result of kind or class of cargo, limitations of amenities, emergencies, or different irregular circumstances.
Equipment:
Used within the airline business referring to plane or plane kind, i.e., DC-10, B-727, and many others.
Escorts:
People 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 situations. It can 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 situations. It can differ from the scheduled time of departure.
Exception Ratings:
Rates set at a sure proportion above the final commodity charges as a result of they apply to commodities that require particular dealing with, akin to reside animals and human stays. See Class Rate and Premium Rate
Excess Value:
The quantity of declared worth on a cargo that’s over the provider’s legal responsibility
Exchange Rate:
The value of 1 foreign money when it comes to one other
Exclusive 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 in a foreign country or for private functions.
Export Broker:
An particular person or agency that brings collectively patrons and sellers for a charge, 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.
Firms 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 provider or agent. The freight forwarder receives freight from prospects below his personal tariff, often consolidating it into bigger shipments, prepares mandatory paperwork and makes preparations for shifting freight.
Freighter:
An plane that carries cargo solely, somewhat than the mix of passengers and cargo
GBL:
Government Bill of Lading
GCR/GEN:
General Commodity Rate
Gateway City:
The first port of entry into a rustic, or the final port earlier than exiting a rustic.
General Commodity:
Any cargo commodity that doesn’t warrant a particular or specified price.
General Commodity Rate:
An air freight price relevant on all commodities, besides these for which particular charges have been filed. Rates are primarily based on weight and distance and are revealed for every pair of cities an airline serves.
Government Bill of Lading – (GBL):
A doc issued by a authorities company used to request transportation of products and assist the billing of identical together with provider’s Air Waybill.
Gross Weight:
The weight of the cargo together with all packing, blocking, platforms, particular bracing, and many others., if required. (consists of weight of unit load machine, when relevant.)
HAWB (House Air Waybill):
The particular person breakdown for every a part of a consolidation
Hold for Pick-Up – (HFPU) (At Destination):
Freight to be held on the provider’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 Material – (HAZ MAT):
A time period referring to harmful items
Health Certificate:
A doc obtained from a licensed veterinarian that’s required to ship ALL reside warm-blooded animals.
High Value:
A time period used to establish each articles of extraordinary worth and engaging merchandise.
Human Remains/Embalmed Human Remains:
Intra-US and worldwide time period for deceased human our bodies. Sometimes known as HR
IAC:
Indirect Air Carrier
IATA:
International Air Transportation Association
IATA Agent:
A forwarder/dealer that has been accredited and is acknowledged by IATA to obtain cargo, lower Air Waybills and different paperwork for carriers, and gather expenses for air shipments.
IATA Carrier:
An airline which is a member of IATA and will settle for, carry, and invoice for air shipments. Intra-US counterpart is ATA.
I.E.:
Immediate Exportation
I.T.:
Immediate Transport
Immediate Exportation:
Document ready at port of departure for a cargo touring by the U.S., which is able to clear customs in a unique nation.
Immediate 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 right away transport doc have to be reissued to make sure that customs can establish actual location of products always till clearance is granted.
Import:
To deliver 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 below which U.S. Customs’ clearance of cargo is postponed till the cargo reaches an inland customs level somewhat than at congested gateway cities. Cargo strikes below the provider’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 provider or agent. Incoterms:
International Commercial Terms Maintained by the International 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 accountable for the supply of the products, and the purpose through which the danger of loss is transferred from the vendor to the customer. The final version, Incoterms 2000 incorporates 13 codes:
EXW – Ex – works FCA – Free Carrier (named place) FAS – Free Alongside Ship (named port of cargo) FOB – Free On Board
Indirect Air Carrier:
An entity which purchases cargo house from an airline and sells the house to different shippers. A freight forwarder is an oblique air provider.
International Air Transport Association (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 Carrier:
The provider who points the Air Waybill
Joint Rate:
A single price which applies for carriage over the traces of two or extra carriers and which is revealed as a single quantity.
Kennel:
The enclosure through which a reside animal is shipped, mostly for canines and cats.
Kilo:
An worldwide measure of weight containing 2.2046 kilos.
Known 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
Legal Connection:
The period of time wanted to attach cargo from one plane to a different,or one airline to a different. Also known as connection time and switch time.
Letter Of Credit:
A doc issued by a financial institution stipulating {that a} sure sum shall be paid to the beneficiary named below clearly said situations. It is 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’t launch items to the last word consignee till a written launch is produced by the financial institution named on the Air Waybill. Liner phrases:
Conditions below which a delivery firm will transport items, together with the quantity payable for carriage of the products
Live Animals:
An airline time period to establish reside cargo
Local Rate:
Rate 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:
Number 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, complete precise weight, vacation spot airport, date of cargo, and routing. Lower deck:
An plane compartment, beneath the Main Deck
Main deck:
Also often known as Upper Deck. A freighter plane has it total higher deck geared up for major deck kind of containers/pallets loading. There isn’t any major deck kind of container/pallet at passenger plane Master Air Waybill – (MAWB):
Air Waybill overlaying a consolidated consignment, displaying the consolidator as shipper
Master Loader:
The IATA agent who assumes the duty for contracting with different brokers to assemble items for consolidation to the airways.
MET – Merchandise Enforcement Team:
A particular unit of US Customs
Minimum Charge:
The minimal quantity which applies for the transportation of air cargo service, irrespective of how small the cargo
NAR:
No Authentication Required
NDR:
No Documents Required
NES:
Not Elsewhere Specified. An abbreviation which frequently seems in cargo tariffs together with NOS – Not Otherwise Specified and presumably, NOIBN – Not Otherwise Indexed by Number.
NFO:
Next Flight Out. A time period utilized by some shippers which means SPD – Small Package Delivery.
NOA:
Notify On Arrival
NarLetterRecord-Body Aircraft:
B-727, B-737, B-757 and A-320 are all examples of narLetterRecord-body plane.
Net Weight:
The precise weight of a cargo (not together with the burden of the container / unit load machine – (ULD)).
Nomination:
When an air provider authorizes a bonded agent (forwarder, dealer) to replace Air Waybill info (grasp Air Waybill or home Air Waybill) on to customs by way of Air Manifest System
Non-Stop Flight:
A flight with no stops from origin to vacation spot
No Op:
Abbreviation for Not in operation, or doesn’t function.
No Show:
Shipper who fails to point out as much as ship an already booked cargo. Also, a cargo which fails to point out up at vacation spot off a flight.
Normal Processing Time:
A timeframe every airport metropolis publishes for restoration time.
Normal Rate:
The worldwide time period for the revealed per pound or per kilo price (between minimal cost and 45Okay/100L price.)
NVD:
No Value Declared
Offload:
Removing 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 specific airport and obtainable for the client to pick-up.
One-Shot Truck:
A shuttle truck organized by a station on a one-time solely foundation
Online:
A routing from origin to vacation spot on the designated provider solely
Origin:
The level at which a cargo begins
Over-Pivot Weight:
The weight in extra of the pivot weight. See Pivot Weight.
Over-the-Road Truck:
Pick-up and supply service carried out past the same old radius of normal 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
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