20' 40' & Sometimes 45'
Large, steel boxes designed to transport goods by sea or land
What is a Container?
Term used to describe the transportation of small ocean-freight shipments, which do not require the full capacity of a container
What is Less-Than- Container Load ?
The process of transporting shipping containers /goods by truck over short distances
What is Drayage?
A place for the reception, delivery, consolidation, distribution, and storage of goods/ cargo.
What is a warehouse?
Class 3 in the Hazmat Classification
What is flammable liquid?
A frame with wheels and locking devices in order to secure the container for movement.
What is a Chassis?
A cargo consolidator in ocean trades who will buy space from a carrier and sub sell it to smaller shippers. It does not provide the actual ocean or intermodal service.
What is a Non-Vessel Operating Common Carrier (NVOCC)?
Current carrier for RoRo shipments from the Port of New Jersey
What is Cartainer Ocean Line?
The maximum allowed weight for a Jumbo Barrel
What is 350 Lbs?
Four of the fields that must be completed on an IMO
What are Transportation Document Number, Carrier, Vessel/Date, Port/Place of Handling, Container, seal # and type, Name of Company, Name/Status of declarant, Place and Date, Signature of Declarant?
Used for transporting perishables, having its own stand-alone (self-powered) cooling system
What is a Reefer Container?
Itemized list of commodities with marks/numbers, but no cost values indicated.
What is a packing list?
Current carrier without restrictions for Lithium Batteries
What is King Ocean?
Daily Double
Used Goods, Antiques, Works of Art, Jewellry
What are shipments that are generally excluded from cargo insurance?
Import or export shipment which has not been cleared by customs and is transported, stored, or handled with security to the government
What is Bonded cargo?
Dimensions - 480"x 96"x 114"
What is a 40' High Cube?
A penalty charge against shippers or consignees for delaying a shipping line's equipment beyond allowed time.
What is Detention?
Daily Double
Term that refers to any products or goods stored on a cargo ship within individual units. A further classification is that this form of cargo is not stored in containers.
What is Break Bulk?
The voluntary relinquishment or surrender of some known right or privilege.
What is a waiver?
The freight charge for a commercial shipment of Ammonia going to Chuku at $3.85 per cubic ft and the dimensions are 4' 5" x 6' 7" x 8' 3" valued at $4000. Insurance declined.
What is $1244
B/L, SED, & HAZMAT FEES
Shipping containers don't require much upkeep, but with just regular maintenance, a typical shipping container can last over _________ years
What is 20 years?
A method of ocean cargo service using a vessel with ramps, which allows wheeled vehicles to be loaded and discharged without cranes
What is "Ro/Ro" or "Roll On/Roll Off"?
The preferred Carriers for Inland transports
What are GLT, Axle Logistics & TQL?
For LCL containers with multiple bills of lading we can prepare this document in several different formats such as freighted or unfreighted
What is a consolidated manifest?
When the foreign buyer of the goods contracts with a freight forwarder or other agent to export the merchandise from the United States
What is a Routed Transaction?