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Freight Forwarding Terms

Like all businesses, freight forwarding has its own special shorthand, which can be difficult to understand for people who are not involved in freight on a daily basis.

We hope you will find our explanations helpful; please call if you would like more advice and email jane@rwfreight.co.uk if you would like us to add something to the list.

  • Air Waybill
  • Ad Valorem
  • ADR
  • Ambient Temperature
  • ASEAN
  • ATA Carnet
  • BAF
  • BIFA
  • Bill of Lading
  • BIMCO
  • Bonded Warehouse
  • Box trailer
  • Break Bulk Cargo
  • CACM
  • CAD
  • CAF
  • CCC
  • Certificate of Origin
  • Chartering
  • CHIEF
  • Claused Bill of Lading
  • Clean Bill of Lading
  • Clean Cargo Working Group
  • CLECAT
  • CMR
  • CO
  • Commercial Invoice
  • Cold Ironing
  • Conference
  • Consignee
  • Consignor
  • COPCA
  • CPC
  • Curtain Sided Trailer
  • Customs Duty
  • Deadweight tonnage
  • Deep Sea
  • Demurrage
  • DGN
  • DGSA
  • Draught
  • EFTA
  • Excise Duty
  • FAK
  • FCL
  • FEFC
  • FEU
  • FIATA
  • Flags of Convenience
  • General Average
  • Gross tonnage
  • Gross Weight
  • Groupage
  • Hague-Visby Rules
  • HS (Harmonised-System)
  • IATA
  • IBIA
  • ICC
  • ICD
  • ICHCA
  • IMO
  • IMDG
  • Import Duty
  • Inherent Vice
  • Institute Cargo Clauses
  • Intermodal Freight
  • Irrevocable Letter of Credit
  • ISO
  • LCL
  • Letter of Credit (LC)
  • Lien
  • Load Lines
  • NVOC
  • Ocean Freight
  • Open Cover Insurance Policy
  • Open Top Container
  • Original Bill of Lading
  • Panamax
  • Pro Rata
  • Received bill of lading
  • Ro/Ro
  • SDR
  • shipped bill of lading
  • Short Sea
  • Single European Authorisation (SEA)
  • SITPRO
  • stale bill of lading
  • STC
  • Tare weight
  • TEU
  • Through Bill of Lading
  • Tilt Trailer
  • TIR
  • UNCITRAL
  • Utmost good faith
  • WCO
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