Ocean shipping

Ocean shipping

Relating to the transportation of goods across an ocean or sea.

Contributors in Ocean shipping

Ocean shipping

Cargo shipped in loose condition and of a homogeneous nature. Cargoes that are shipped unpackaged either dry, such as grain and ore, or liquid, such as petroleum products. Bulk service generally is ...

Cost, insurance and freight (C.I.F.)

Maritime; Ocean shipping

Export term in which the price quoted by the exporter includes the costs of ocean transportation to the port of destination and insurance coverage.

Buoy

Maritime; Ocean shipping

A floating object employed as an aid to mariners to mark the navigable limits of channels, their fairways, sunken dangers, isolated rocks, telegraph cables, and the like; floating devices fixed in ...

Carrier container

Maritime; Ocean shipping

A container over which the carrier or the shipper has control either by ownership or by the acquisition thereof under lease or rental from container companies or container suppliers or from similar ...

Carriers

Maritime; Ocean shipping

Owners or operators of vessels providing transportation to shippers. The term is also used to refer to the vessels.

Cartel

Maritime; Ocean shipping

An association of several independent national or international business organisations that regulates competition by controlling the prices, the production, or the marketing of a product or industry.