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  2. Bill of lading - Wikipedia

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    The word "lading" means "loading", both words being derived from the Old English word hladan. [15] "Lading" specifically refers to the loading of cargo aboard a ship. [16] The Dutch word "lading" has exactly the same meaning (freight, cargo, an amount of transportable goods) as it has in the English "bill of lading", but is not restricted to ...

  3. Manifest (transportation) - Wikipedia

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    In this way, a cargo manifest is like a passport except that it is used for goods instead of (or in addition to) persons; the manifest is evidence to the nationality of the goods, the absence of contraband, and that property belonging to belligerents is not laden on board of the vessel. [3]

  4. FOB (shipping) - Wikipedia

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    FOB (free on board) is a term in international commercial law specifying at what point respective obligations, costs, and risk involved in the delivery of goods shift from the seller to the buyer under the Incoterms standard published by the International Chamber of Commerce. FOB is only used in non-containerized sea freight or inland waterway ...

  5. Glossary of nautical terms (A–L) - Wikipedia

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    AAW An acronym for anti-aircraft warfare. aback (of a sail) Filled by the wind on the opposite side to the one normally used to move the vessel forward.On a square-rigged ship, any of the square sails can be braced round to be aback, the purpose of which may be to reduce speed (such as when a ship-of-the-line is keeping station with others), to heave to, or to assist moving the ship's head ...

  6. Es kommt ein Schiff, geladen - Wikipedia

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    "A ship is coming laden", English translation by Alan and Enid Luff; Score; Michael Fischer: Es kommt ein Schiff geladen. Ausführlicher Kommentar zur Liedgeschichte May 2005. (in German) (PDF, 1.11 MB) Es kommt ein Schiff, geladen, text in old German and Latin, by lyrik-und-lied.de "Es kommt ein Schiff, geladen" Carus-Verlag and SWR2 (in German)

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  8. Transshipment - Wikipedia

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    The exact definition of transshipment may differ between ports, mostly depending on the inclusion of inland water transport (barges operating on canals and rivers to the hinterland). The definition of transshipment may: include only seaborne transfers (a change to another international deep-sea container ship); or

  9. Containerization - Wikipedia

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    FCL is intended to designate a container loaded to its allowable maximum weight or volume, but FCL in practice on ocean freight does not always mean a full payload or capacity – many companies will prefer to keep a 'mostly' full container as a single container load to simplify logistics and increase security compared to sharing a container ...