- Accessorial Charges
- Accounts Payable (A/P)
- Actual Valuation
- Adjustments
- Advice of Shipment
- Agent
- Air Freight
- Air Freight Cost
- Air Freight Forwarder
- Air Waybill
- All-Cargo Aircraft
- All Risk Insurance
- Alongside
- Arrival Notice
- ASN
- Authority
- Aviation and Transportation Security Act (ATSA)
- Axle Load
- Backhaul
- Beneficial Ownership
- Billed Weight or Billable Weight
- Bill of Lading
- Blind Shipment
- Bogie
- Bonded Warehouse
- Breakbulk
- Broker
- Brokerage License
- Bulk Carrier
- Bulk Freight
- Cargo
- Cargo Manifest
- Carload (C/L or CL)
- Carrier
- Cartage
- Cartage Agent
- Certificate of Manufacture
- Certificate of Origin
- C&F (Cost and Freight)
- Chargeable Weight
- Charter Service
- Chassis for Containers
- CIF (Cost, Insurance, Freight)
- Claim
- Class Rate
- Clean Bill of Lading
- COD (Collect on Delivery)
- Collect Shipment
- Commercial Invoice
- Common Carrier
- Concealed Damage
- Confirmed Letter of Credit
- Consign
- Consignee
- Consignor
- Consolidation
- Containerization
- Container Yard (CY)
- Contract Carrier
- Cross-Town
- Cubic Capacity
- Customs
- Customs Broker
- Customs Clearance
- Customs Declaration
- Customs Invoice
- Customs Tariff
- Damage Claim
- Dangerous Goods
- Declared Value
- Deferred Air Freight
- Delivered/Duty Paid
- Delivery Instructions
- Delivery Receipt
- Demurrage
- Dimensional Weight
- Dock Receipt
- Drawback
- Drayage
- Durable Goods
- Duty
- Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
- Embargo
- Entry
- Estimated Time of Arrival (ETA)
- Ex
- Exceptions
- Exclusive Use
- Export
- Export Declaration
- Export Letter of Credit
- Export License
- FAS (Free Alongside Ship)
- Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
- Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
- Federal Register
- FIFO (First In, First Out)
- FOB Destination
- FOB Factory
- FOB (Free on Board)
- FOB Origin
- FOB Vessel
- Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
- Force Majeure
- Foreign Trade Zones
- Forwarding Agent
- Freight All Kinds (FAK)
- Freight Bill
- Freight Classification
- Freight Forwarder
- Full Container Load (FCL)
- Full Truck Load (FTL)
- Gross Vehicle Weight Rating (GVWR)
- Gross Weight
- Harmonized System Code (HS Code)
- Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTS or HTSUS)
- Hazardous Material
- Igloo
- Importer of Record (IOR)
- Import License
- Imports
- In Bond
- Inbound Freight
- Indirect Air Carrier (IAC)
- Inland Bill of Lading
- Inland Port
- Interline Freight
- Interline Shipping
- Intermodal Transportation
- International Air Transport Association
- Interstate Commerce
- Intrastate Commerce
- Irrevocable Letter of Credit
- Landbridge
- Landed Cost
- Last In, First Out (LIFO)
- LCL (Less-than-Carload, Less-than-Container Load)
- Lessee
- Lessor
- Less Than Container Load (LCL)
- Letter of Credit (L/C)
- Licensing
- Linehaul
- Longshoreman
- Long Ton
- Loss and Damage (L&D) Claim
- Lower Deck
- LTL (Less-than-Truckload)
- Marine Insurance
- Marking (or Marks)
- Master Air Waybill (MAWB)
- Minimum Charge
- Motor Carrier
- Motor Property Broker
- NAFTA Certificate of Origin
- National Motor Freight Classification (NMFC)
- Nested
- Net Weight
- Non-Vessel Operating Common Carrier (NVOCC)
- North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
- Not Otherwise Indicated (NOI)
- Ocean Bill of Lading
- Ocean Container
- On Board Bill of Lading
- Operating Authority
- Operating Ratio
- OS&D (Over, Short and Damaged)
- Overage
- Overcharge Claims
- Owner-Operators
- Owner’s Risk
- Packing List
- Pallet
- Palletization
- Parcel Audit
- Per Diem
- Perishable Freight
- Permit
- Point of Origin
- Port
- Pro Forma Invoice
- Pro Number
- Proof of Delivery
- Public Warehouse
- Purchase Order
- Quota
- Rate
- Reefer
- Reverse Logistics
- Revocable Letter of Credit
- Roll-on/Roll-Off (Ro/Ro)
- Routing
- Salvage Loss
- Seal
- Second Day Air Freight
- Semi
- Shipment
- Shipper
- Shipper’s Export Declaration (SED)
- Shipper’s Letter of Instructions for Issuing Air Waybill
- Shipper’s Letter of Instruction (SLI)
- Ship’s Manifest
- SL&C
- Steamship Conference
- Straight Bill of Lading
- Stripping
- Stuffing
- Tare
- Tare Weight
- Tariff
- Terminal Handling Charge (THC)
- Terms of Sale
- Third-Party
- Through Bill of Lading
- Through Rate
- Time-Critical
- Time-Definite
- Title
- Transit
- Transit Time
- Transportation Security Administration (TSA)
- Truckload (TL)
- UCC
- Ultimate Consignee
- Unit Load Device (ULD)
- Upper Deck
- U.S. Customs Bonded Warehouse
- Value Added Tax (VAT)
- Volume Rate
- Waiting Cost
- Warehouse
- Warehouse Receipt
- Warehousing
- Weigh Station
- Weight
- Weight Certificate
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