Freight Glossary
A/W All Water
ANER Asia NorthAmerica EastboundRate
B/L Bill of Lading
B/R Buying Rate
BAF Bunker AdjustmentFactor
C&F COST AND FREIGHT
C.C Collect
C.S.C Container Service Charge
C.Y. Container Yard
C/(CNEE) Consignee
C/O Certificate of Origin
CAF Currency Adjustment Factor
CFS Container Freight Station
CFS/CFS
CHB Customs House Broker
CIF COST,INSURANCE,FRIGHT
CIP Carriage and Insurance Paid To
COMM Commodity
CPT Carriage Paid To
CTNR Container
CY/CY
D/A Document Against Acceptance
D/O Delivery Order
D/P Document Against Payment
DAF Delivered At Frontier
DDC Destination Delivery Charge
DDP Delivered Duty Paid
DDU Delivered Duty Unpaid
DEQ Delivered Ex Quay
DES Delivered Ex Ship
Doc# Document Number
EPS Equipment Position Surcharges
ETD Estimated Time of Departure
ETA Estimated Time of Arrival
Ex Work/ExFactory
F/F Freight Forwarder
FAF Fuel AdjustmentFactor
FAK Freight All Kind
FAS Free Alongside Ship
FCA Free Carrier
FCL Full Container Load
Feeder Vessel/Lighter
FEU Forty-Foot Equivalent Unit 40’
FMC Federal Maritime Commission
FOB Free On Board
GRI General RateIncrease
H/C Handling Charge
HBL House B/L
I/S Inside Sales
IA Independent Action
L/C Letter of Credit
Land Bridge
LCL Less Than Container Load
M/T Measurement Ton
MB/L Master Bill Of Loading
MLB Minni Land Bridge
Mother Vessel
MTD Multimodal Transport Document
N/F Notify
NVOCC Non Vessel OperatingCommon Carrier
O/F Ocean Freight
OBL Ocean (or original )B/L
OCP Overland Continental Point
OP Operation
ORC Origen Recevie Charges
P.P Prepaid
PCS Port Congestion Surcharge
POE Port Of Entry
POD Port Of Destination
POL Port Of Loading
PCS port congestion surcharge
PSS Peak Season Sucharges
S/(Shpr) Shipper
S/C Sales Contract
S/O Shipping Order
S/R Selling Rate
S/S Spread Sheet Spread Sheet
SC Service Contract
SSL Steam Ship Line
T.O.C Terminal Operations Option
T.R.C Terminal Receiving Charge
T/S Trans-Ship
T/T Transit Time
TEU Twenty-Foot Equivalent Unit 20’
THC Terminal Handling Charges
TTL Total
TVC/ Time Volume Contract/ Rate
VOCC Vessel Operating Common Carrier
W/M Weight or Measurement ton
W/T Weight Ton
YAS Yard Surcharges