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A B B R E V I A T I O N S
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| A |
| ADSL |
Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line |
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| API |
Application Programming Interface |
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| ARENA |
Asia North America Eastbound Rate Agreement |
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| AS/RS |
Automated Storage and Retrieval System |
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| ASME |
American Society of Mechanical Engineers |
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| ASP |
Active Sever Page |
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| AWB |
Air Waybil |
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| B |
| B/B |
Break Bulk |
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| B/L |
Bill of Lading |
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| B2B |
Business to Business |
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| B2C |
Business to Customer |
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| BAF |
Bunker Adjustment Factor |
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| BCC |
Blind Carbon Copy |
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| BCO |
Beneficial Cargo Owner |
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| BECC |
Border Environmental Cooperation Commission (USA) |
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| BIMCO |
The Baltic and International Maritime Council |
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| BOTU |
Board of Trade Unit |
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| BPO |
Business Process Outsourcing |
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| BSP |
British Standard Pipe Tread |
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| BTU |
British thermal unit |
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| C |
| C&F |
Cost and Freight |
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| C/O |
Certificate of Origin |
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| CAF |
Currency Adjustment Factor |
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| CBM |
Cubic Metre |
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| CC |
Carbon Copy |
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| CD |
Cash On Delivery |
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| CDMA |
Code Division Multiple Address |
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| CFM |
Cubic Feet per Minute |
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| CFR * |
Cost and Freight |
| *It means that the seller pays for transportation to the port of shipment, loading and freight. The buyer pays for the insurance and transportation of the goods from the port of destination to his factory. |
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| CFS |
Container Freight Station |
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| CGI |
Common Gateway Interface |
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| CIF * |
Cost, Insurance and Freight |
| * It means that the selling price includes the cost of the goods, the freight or transport costs and also the cost of marine insurance. CIF is an international commerce term. |
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| CILT |
The Chartered Institute of Marketing |
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| CIM |
The Chartered Institute of Marketing |
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| CIP * |
Carriage and Insurance Paid To |
| *This means that the buyer bears all risk and any additional costs occurring after the goods have been so delivered.It is the same as CPT except that the seller also pays for the insurance. |
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| CIS |
Commonwealth of Independent States |
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| CISG |
Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (UN Convention) |
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| CLM |
The Council of Logistics Management |
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| CLP |
Container Load Plan |
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| CNG |
Compressed natural gas |
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| CNOOC |
China National Offshore Oil Corp. |
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| COC |
Carrier's Own Container |
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| COFC |
Container-on-flatcar |
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| COSCO |
China Ocean Shipping Company |
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| COSL |
China Oilfield Services Limited |
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| CPFR |
Collaborative Planning Forecasting and Replenishment |
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| CPT * |
Carriage Paid To |
| *It can be used for all modes of transport including multimodal transport. The seller pays for the freight to the named point of destination. The buyer pays for the insurance. |
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| CRM |
Customer Relationship Management |
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| CSC |
International Convention for Safe Container |
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| CY |
Container Yard |
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| D |
| D/A |
Document Against Acceptance |
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| DAF * |
Delivered at Frontier |
| * The buyer arranges for customs clearance and pays for transportation from the frontier to his factory. |
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| DDC |
Destination Delivery Charge |
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| DDP * |
Delivered Duty Paid |
| * It means that the seller pays for all transportation costs and bears all risk until the goods have been delivered, but does not pay for the duty. |
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| DDU * |
Delivered Duty Unpaid |
| * It means that the seller pays for all transportation costs and bears all risk until the goods have been delivered and pays the duty. |
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| DEQ * |
Delivered ex-Quay |
| * It means the same as DES, but the passing of risk does not occur until the goods have been unloaded at the port of destination. |
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| DES * |
Delivered Ex-Ship |
| * The seller pays the same freight and insurance costs as he would under a CIF arrangement. |
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| DG |
Dangerous Goods |
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| DNS |
Domain Name System |
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| DO |
Delivery Order |
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| DOS |
Disk Operating System |
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| DP |
Document Against Payment |
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| DPP |
Damage Protection Plan |
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| DRP |
Distribution Resources Planning |
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| DSL |
Digital Subscriber Loop (digital subscriber line) |
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| E |
| E&OE |
Errors and Omissions Excepted |
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| ECR |
Efficient Customer Response |
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| EDI |
Electronic Data Interchange |
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| ERM |
Enterprise Resources Management |
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| ERP |
Enterprise Resources Planning |
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| ETA |
Estimated Time of Arrival |
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| ETD |
Estimated Time of Departure |
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| EXW * |
Ex-Works |
| * It means that the seller X has the goods ready for collection at his premises (Works, factory, warehouse, plant) on the date agreed upon. The buyer pays all transportation costs and also bears the risks for bringing the goods to their final destination. |
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| FAF |
Fuel Adjustment Factor |
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| FAK |
Freight All Kinds |
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| FAQ |
Frequently Asked Question |
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| FAS * |
Free Alongside Ship |
| * It means that the seller pays for transportation of the goods to the port of shipment. The buyer pays loading costs, freight, insurance, unloading costs and transportation from the port of destination to his factory. |
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| FBL |
FIATA Combined Transport Bill of Lading |
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| FCA * |
Free Carrier |
| *The seller delivers the goods into the custody of the first carrier, and this is where risk passes from seller to buyer. The buyer pays for the transportation. It can be used for all modes of transportation including multimodal transport. |
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| FCL |
Full Container Load |
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| FCR |
Forwarder's Cargo Receipt |
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| FEFC |
Far East Freight Conference |
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| FEU |
Forty Feet Equivalent Unit |
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| FI |
Free In |
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| FIATA |
International Federation of Forwarding Agent Associations |
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| FIFO |
First-in, First-out |
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| FIO |
Free In and Out |
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| FIOST |
Free In, Out, Stowed & Trimmed |
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| FIP |
File Transfer Protocol |
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| FIZ |
Free Trade Zones |
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| FMC |
Federal Maritime Commission |
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| FO |
Free Out |
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| FOA |
Fire Defence Agency (Japanese) |
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| FOB * |
Free On Board |
| * It means that the seller pays for transportation of the goods to the port of shipment, plus loading costs. The buyer pays freight, insurance, unloading costs and transportation from the port of destination to the factory. |
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| FOR |
Free On Rail |
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| FOT |
Free On Truck |
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| FR |
Flat Rack Container |
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| FRC |
Fuel Recovery Charge |
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| G |
| GDP |
Gross Domestic Product |
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| GIF |
Graphics Interchange Format |
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| GPRS |
General Packet Radio Service |
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| GRI |
General Rate Increasing |
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| GSA |
General Sales Agent |
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| GSC |
Global Supply Chain |
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| GSM |
Global System for Mobile Communications |
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| GWT |
Gross Weight |
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| H |
| HAFFA |
Hong Kong Association of Freight Forwarding and Logistics Ltd. |
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| HAWB |
House Air Waybill |
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| HDSL |
High data rate Digital Subscriber Line |
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| HH |
Half Height Container |
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| HKIM |
Hong Kong Institute of Marketing |
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| HTML |
Hypertext Mark-up Language |
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| HTTP |
Hypertext Transfer Protocol |
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| I |
| IA RATES |
Independent Action rates |
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| IADA |
Intra Asia Discussion Agreement |
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| IATA |
International Air Transport Association |
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| IBC |
Intermediate Bulk Container |
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| ICAO |
International Civil Aviation Organization |
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| ICC |
International Chamber of Commerce |
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| ICP |
Internet Content provider |
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| ICT |
Information and Communications Technology |
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| IEEE |
The Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineering |
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| IICL |
Institute of International Container Lessors |
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| IMDG |
International Maritime Dangerous Goods Code |
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| IMO |
International Maritime Organization |
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| INCOTERMS |
INternational COmmerce TERMS |
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| IP |
Internet Protocol |
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| IPI |
Interior Point Intermodal |
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| IPO |
Initial Public Offering |
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| IRA |
Informal Rate Agreement |
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| ISAPI |
Internet Server Application Programming Interface |
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| ISDN |
Integrated Server Digital Network |
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| ISO |
International Standard Organization |
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| ISP |
Internet Service Provider |
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| ITU |
International Telecommunication Union |
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| K |
| Kbps |
Kilobits per second |
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| KT |
Kilo Tons |
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| L |
| LAN |
Local Area Networking |
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| LASH |
Ligther Aboard Ship |
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| LC |
Letter of Credit |
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| LCL |
Less (than) container Load |
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| LG |
Letter of Guarantee |
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| LI |
Liner Inward |
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| LILO |
Last-in, Last-out |
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| LIO |
Liner In and Out |
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| LNG |
Liquefied Natural Gas |
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| Lo-Lo ship |
Lift-on Lift-off ship |
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| LOA |
Length Overall |
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| LPG |
Liquefied Petroleum Gas |
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| LPG |
Liquefied petroleum gas |
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| LTL |
Less-than-truckload |
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| M |
| MAWB |
Master Air Waybill |
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| MB |
Megabyte |
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| MBO |
Management By Objective |
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| Mbps |
Millions of bits per second |
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| MIS |
Management Information System |
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| MLB |
Mainland Bridge |
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| MLO |
Main Line Operators |
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| MMS |
Multimedia Messaging Services |
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| MPEG |
Motion Picture Experts Group |
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| MQC |
Minimum Quantity Commitment |
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| MRP |
Material Requirements Planning |
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| MS |
Motor Ship |
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| MSDS |
Material Safety Data Sheet |
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| MTO |
Multimode Transport Operator |
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| N |
| NA |
Not Applicable/Not Available |
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| NAALC |
North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation |
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| NAFTA |
North American Free Trade Agreement |
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| NAP |
Network Access Point |
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| NOE |
Not Otherwise Enumerated |
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| NOS |
Not Otherwise Specified |
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| NVOCC |
Non Vessel Operating Common Carrier |
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| O |
| OCP |
Overland Common Point |
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| OEM |
Original Equipment Manufacturer |
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| OH |
Over Height |
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| OPM |
Other People's Money |
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| ORC |
Origin Receiving Charge |
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| OS |
Origin Receiving Charge |
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| OT |
Open Top Container |
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| OW |
Over Width |
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| Others |
| 007 |
Zero Zero Seven |
| Zero Zero Seven |
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| 3G |
3rd Generation Networks |
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| 3PL |
3rd Party Logistics |
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| 4PL |
4th Party Logistics |
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| 5-S |
Seiri, Seiton, Seiso, Seiketsu, Shitsuke |
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| P |
| P&I Club |
Protection and Indemnity Club |
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| P2P |
Path to Profit |
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| PCD |
Pitch Circle Diameter |
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| PCS |
Port Congestion Surcharge |
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| PDA |
Personal Digital Assistant |
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| PDF |
Portable Document Format |
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| PENAVICO |
China Ocean Shipping Company |
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| PKI |
Public Key Infrastructure |
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| POD |
Port of Discharge |
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| POL |
Port of Loading |
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| POP |
Point of Presence |
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| PPP |
Point-to-Point Protocol |
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| PSS |
Peak Season Surcharge |
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| PSTN |
Public Switched Telephone Network |
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| PTO |
Please Turn Overleaf |
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| PWS |
Personal Web Server |
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| R |
| RAM |
Random Access Memory |
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| RF |
Reefer Container |
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| RFP |
Request For proposal |
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| RFQ |
Request For Quotation |
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| RFRC |
Rail Fuel Recovery Charge |
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| RMB |
Renminbi |
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| Ro-Ro ship |
Roll-on Roll-off ship |
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| ROA |
Return On Assets |
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| ROI |
Return On Investment |
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| RT |
Revenue Tons |
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| S |
| SAN |
Storage Area Network |
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| SC |
Service Contract |
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| SCM |
Supply Chain Management |
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| SET |
Secure Electronic Transaction |
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| SG |
Specific Gravity |
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| SINOTRANS |
China National Foreign trade and Transportation Corporation |
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| SKU |
Stock Keeping Unit |
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| SME |
Small and Medium-size Enterprises |
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| SMS |
Short Message Services |
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| SMTP |
Simple Mail Transport Protocol |
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| SNG |
Synthetic Natural Gas |
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| SNMP |
Simple Network Management Protocol |
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| SO |
Shipping Order |
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| SOC |
Shipper's Own Container |
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| SQL |
Structure Query Language |
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| SS |
S/S Steamship |
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| SSL |
Secure Socket Layer |
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| STC |
Said To Contain |
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| T |
| TACA |
Transatlantic Conference Agreement |
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| TCP |
Transmission Control Protocol |
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| TEU |
Twenty-foot Equivalent Unit |
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| THC |
Terminal Handling Charge |
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| TMS |
Transportation Management System |
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| TOFC |
Trailer-on-Flatcar |
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| TQC |
Total Quality Control |
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| TQM |
Total Quality Management |
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| TRS |
Terminal Receiving Station |
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| TSA |
Transpacific Stabilization Agreement |
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| TSR |
Trans Siberian Railway |
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| TT |
Telegraphic Transfer |
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| TTTT |
Test Test Test Test |
| Testing |
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| TVC |
Time Volume Contract |
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| TWRA |
Transpacific Westbound Rate Agreement |
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| U |
| UCP 600 |
Uniform Customs and practice for Documentary Credits |
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| UHF |
Ultra High frequency |
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| ULCC |
Ultra Large Crude Carrier |
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| ULD |
Unit Load Device |
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| UNCTAD |
United Nations Conference of Trade and Development |
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| UPU |
Universal Postal Union |
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| URL |
Uniform Resource Locator |
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| V |
| VAT |
Value Added Tax |
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| VDSL |
Very High Speed Digital Subscriber Line |
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| VHF |
Very High Frequency |
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| VLCC |
Very Large Crude Carrier |
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| VMI |
Vendor Managed Inventory |
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| VOC |
Vessel Operating Carrier |
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| VOW |
Vehicle On Wheel |
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| VPN |
Virtual Private Network |
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| VSL |
Vessel |
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| W |
| WAP |
Wireless Appreciation Protocol |
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| WCS |
Wireless Communications Service |
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| WMS |
Warehouse Management System |
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| WR |
War Risks |
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| WW |
Warehouse Warrant |
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| WWW |
World Wide Web |
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| X |
| XML |
Extensible Mark-up Language |
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| Y |
| YAS |
Yen Appreciate Surcharge |
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| Z |
| ZIP |
Compressed File (PKzip file name extension) |
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| ZIP |
Zone Improvement Plan (US Postal Service code) |
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| ZP |
Airship Patrol Squadron (All-Weather Anti-Submarine) (US Navy Aviation unit designation used from 1942 to 1961) |
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