The unique data, e.g. name, number or code, determining a certain object or person.

The amount of ineffective time whereby the available resources are not used e.g. a container in a yard.

Setting on fire or catching fire.

Focal points of detached personnel situated within customers¿ premises to co-ordinate and advise on the customers¿ logistics activity, often replacing in-house functions and resource.

Importer

The status of goods or persons between the outwards customs clearance and inwards customs clearance.

Compensation for a loss and/or the expenses incurred.

A demand which is unrelated to demand for other products. Demand for finished goods, parts required for destructive testing and service parts requirements are examples of independent demand.

Any route other than the direct route.

System of roads, waterways, airfields, ports and/or telecommunication networks in a certain area.

Inland location where cargo, particularly containerized cargo, may be cleared by customs.

Transport document made out to a named person, to order or to bearer, signed by the carrier and handed to the sender after receipt of the goods.

Thermal container without the use of devices for cooling and/or heating.

Container frame holding one or more thermal insulated tanks for liquids.

A system of protection against loss under which a party agrees to pay a certain sum (premiums) for a guarantee that they will be compensated under certain conditions for loss or damage.

Proof of an insurance contract.

The party covering the risks of the issued goods and/or services that are insured.

The systematic approach applied to simultaneous management and acquisition of equipment and related logistics support, in order to provide the customer with a desired level of availability. Resulting in an optimum life cycle cost and to maintain this level through the entire life cycle.

The prevention of unauthorized modification of information.

Reciprocal exchange of e.g. information between two or more parties.

As opposite to coastal water operations, intercostals refers to water transport carried out between coasts (e.g. between Pacific and Atlantic coasts).

A co-operative formed by 19 European Railways, for the management of international rail container traffic in Europe.

Two or more road transport companies joining operations to bring cargo to a certain destination.

A carrier with whom another carrier has an interline agreement.

The movement of goods (containers) in one and the same loading unit or vehicle which uses successively several modes of transport without handling of the goods themselves in changing modes.

An international organization of airlines, founded in 1945, with the aim of promoting the commercial air traffic. Parties should achieve this by co-operation between the parties concerned and by performance of certain rules, procedures and tariffs, regarding both cargo and passengers.

An organization in which the major classification societies, among others American Bureau of Shipping, Lloyd's Register of Shipping and Germanischer Lloyd, are joined, whose principal aim is the improvement of standards concerning safety at sea.

Carriage whereby the place of departure and any place of landing are situated in more than one country.

A voluntary organization of national shipowner' associations with the objective to promote interests of its members, primarily in the technical and legal fields of shipping operations.

An international organization of governments, dealing with search and rescue in distress, weather information, telecommunications and navigational requirements.

An United Nations agency, dealing with employment rights and working conditions, covering work at sea and in ports.

A code, representing the classification of dangerous goods as defined by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) in compliance with international legal requirements.

'The doctor at sea'.

A world-wide federation of national standards institutes (ISO member bodies).

This international standard for the safe management and operation of ships prescribes rules for the organization of a shipping company management in the context of safety and pollution prevention and requires the development and implementation of a safety management system.

An account from the supplier, for goods and/or services supplied by him.

The carrier whose Air Waybill is issued (air cargo).

Separate article or unit.