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  2. Breakbulk cargo - Wikipedia

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    Breakbulk continues to hold an advantage in areas where port development has not kept pace with shipping technology; break-bulk shipping requires relatively minimal shore facilities—a wharf for the ship to tie to, dock workers to assist in unloading, warehouses to store materials for later reloading onto other forms of transport.

  3. Manifest (transportation) - Wikipedia

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    Where such a list is limited to identifying passengers, it is a passenger manifest or passenger list [2] or bag manifest; conversely, a list limited to identifying cargo is a cargo manifest [3] or cargo list, or a container manifest for cargo in a container. The manifest may be used by people having an interest in the transport to ensure that ...

  4. Bulk carrier - Wikipedia

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    MR Notice to Shipping Number N-1-2005 (PDF). Notices to Shipping. Balboa-Ancon: Autoridad del Canal de Panamá. pp. 11– 12. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 June 2011; Bliault, Charles; Jonas, Martin; The North of England P&I Association (2016). Bulk Cargoes: A Guide to Good Practice (First ed.). UK: The North of England P&I Association ...

  5. Containerization - Wikipedia

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    Shipping containers at the Port Newark-Elizabeth Marine Terminal in New Jersey, US A container-goods train on the West Coast Main Line near Nuneaton, England Double-stack Union Pacific container train crossing the desert at Shawmut, Arizona An ocean containership close to Cuxhaven, Germany A container ship being loaded by a portainer crane in Copenhagen Harbor, Denmark.

  6. TI-HI - Wikipedia

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    TI-HI, Ti-High, Tie-High, or Ti by Hi is a term often used in the logistics industry.. It refers to the number of boxes/cartons stored on a layer, or tier, (the TI) and the number of layers high that these will be stacked on the pallet (the HI). [1]

  7. List of cargo types - Wikipedia

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    It refers to material in either liquid or granular, particulate form, as a mass of relatively small solids, such as petroleum/crude oil, grain, coal, or gravel. This cargo is usually dropped or poured, with a spout or shovel bucket, into a bulk carrier ship's hold , railroad car / railway wagon , or tanker truck / trailer / semi-trailer body.

  8. Standard Carrier Alpha Code - Wikipedia

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    The Standard Carrier Alpha Code, a two-to-four letter identification, is used by the transportation industry to identify freight carriers in computer systems and shipping documents such as Bill of Lading, Freight Bill, Packing List, and Purchase Order.

  9. Advance ship notice - Wikipedia

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    An advance ship notice or advance shipping notice (ASN) is a notification of pending and upcoming deliveries matched to the prior provided packing list. It is usually sent in an electronic format and is a common EDI document.