1924 International Convention on Carriage of Goods by Sea

1968 Revision of Hague Rules

Container with half the height of a standard container.

1978 UNCTAD revision of Hague Rules.

Charge payable by Merchant on election of merchant haulage for the container being used by him.

An international goods classification system for describing cargo in international trade under a single commodity-coding scheme. Developed under the auspices of theCustoms Cooperations Council (CCC), an international Customs organization in Brussels, this code is a hierarchically structured product nomenclature containing approximately 5,000 headings and subheadings. It is organized into 99 chapters.

See Merchant Haulage and Carrier Haulage.

U.K. road transport operator (a trucker in U.S.)

Relates to commodities which in any way could cause harm to life, limb or property and require special precautions to be taken including special labeling.

A single unit of cargo that is too heavy to be handled by the average ship's cargo handling gear.

When due to the distribution of the load the fore and aft sections of a vessel are lower in the water than her amidships - the opposite of sagging.

A part of the interior of a vessel below decks in which cargo may be stowed. An instruction issued by the Department of Customs & Excise, which prevents cargo from being cleared until fully inspected and documented

A designated area in the terminal used by S.A.T.S. to hold undocumented or incorrectly documented containers. It is also used to hold containers arriving too early for a specific vessel stack.

Expressing capacity or volume in a way that permits combination of 20’ and 40’ containers to create a single homogenous tally (eg: 40 X 40 ft plus 20 X 20 ft containers equivalent to 40 FEU or 100 TEU). Europe based trade generally prefers TEU tally while American prefers FEU tally.

B/L issued by a freight forwarder or consolidator covering a single shipment containing the names, addresses and specific description of the goods shipped.

A part of the interior of a vessel below decks in which cargo may be stowed. An instruction issued by the Department of Customs & Excise, which prevents cargo from being cleared until fully inspected and documented

The whole of the structure below the upper most continuous deck having a permanent means of closing all openings. For insurance purposes this is the ship itself