According to china light source news, this paper summarizes the english terminology commonly used in international freight forwarding operations, with the aim of providing practitioners with a useful resource. It covers the common terminology used in booking, the presentation of transport costs, the terms of the bill of lading and the four core blocks of the common abbreviations, and the system has streamlined the key english terminology at all stages of the freight forwarding operations and its chinese interpretation。
Full english interpretation of commonly used terms for booking
Booking (booking) is a key step in export transport and involves a large number of professional terms. The following is an example of a common term used to order manifests (s/o) for shipping companies:
Booking number: booking number
- vessel/voyage: name/ voyage
- cy closing date/closing date/time: exfiling date/exit date
- eta/edd/: projected arrival/opening/offtake days
- port of loading (pol)/port of loading/discharge
- fcl/lcl: whole box/cracket
- gross weight/net weight: total/net weight
- coNtainer size/type: container size/type
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Ii. English presentation of freight forwarding costs
Freight costs are numerous and are divided into freight, surcharges and port-related costs。
1. The freight category includes sea freight (ocean freight), air transport (air freight), customs clearance (customs clearance fee), booking (booking fee), terminal operations (terminal handliing charge)。
2. Surcharges: common surcharges include fuel surcharges (baf/bunker adjustice actor), currency devaluation surcharges (caf), boom season surcharges (pss), port congestion surcharges (pcs) and charges for specific routes such as automated manifest system entry fees (ams)。
3. Common terms used in ports: e. G. Port fees (port co)Gestion charge, demurrage (co)Ntainer deduction charge, de-vanning charge, b/l discharge fee。
Iii. English comparison of bill of lading terms
The documents and terminology associated with the bill of lading are at the core of the forwarding operations。
- major bill of lading types: sea waybills (obl/ocean bill of lading), cargo bill of lading/carrierless bill of lading (hbl/house bill of lading), advance bill of lading (advanced bl), reverse bill of lading (anti-dated bl), etc。
- key documents: booking manifests/bills (s/o/shipping order), bills of lading (d/o/deliver order), shiploading notice, packing list, etc。
- related operations and costs: demurrage, despace money, shut-down。
Iv. Summary of freight forwarders in english
Extensive use of abbreviations in operations is essential to understand their meaning。
- common maritime abbreviations such as bill of lading b/l, container yard cy, case lcl, full container fcl, anticipated port day eta, anticipated day of launch etd, customs clearance day, etc。
- common transport costs abbreviations: fuel surcharge baf/faf/ebs, currency adjustment fee caf, destination delivery fee ddc, origin receipt fee orc, boom season surcharge pss, terminal operating fee thc, etc。
- container type: dry container (dry cargo container), refrigerated container (reefer container, rf), penthouse (open-top container, ot), frame container (plat form b)Sed container。
