Ocean shipping

Ocean shipping

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

Industry: Maritime; Transportation

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Berth cargo

Maritime; Ocean shipping

When a liner cargo vessel accepts extra cargo to fill the empty space remaining.

Berth liner service

Maritime; Ocean shipping

A regularly scheduled steamship line with regularly published schedules (ports of call) from and to defined trade areas.

An expression covering assessment of ocean freight rates generally implying that loading and discharging expenses will be for the ship owner's account, and usually applying from the end of the ship's ...

Bill of lading

Maritime; Ocean shipping

A document issued by a common carrier to a shipper that serves as:(1) a receipt for the goods delivered to the carrier for shipment. (2) a definition of the contract of carriage of the goods from the ...

Inland bill of lading

Maritime; Ocean shipping

A bill of lading used in transporting goods overland to the exporter's international carrier.

Foul bill of lading

Maritime; Ocean shipping

A receipt for goods issued by a carrier bearing a notation that the outward containers or the goods have been damaged.

Forwarder's bill of lading

Maritime; Ocean shipping

A bill of lading issued by a forwarder to a shipper as a receipt for merchandise that the forwarder will consolidate with cargo obtained from other exporters and ship to his agent at the port of ...