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| Acconier |
Maritime handling entrepreneur who assures the loading or the discharge of the ships notably. This term especially uses itself in Mediterranean; for the ports of the North : « Stevedore ».
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| Accorage |
Wedging on board of a ship of heavy or cumbersome packets by cradles of timbers, of the holds made of wood, to avoid the ripage under crossing.
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Chartering
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Operation by which a shipper confides, to a shipper's demand a share to a chartered, without previous collecting (ship, airship, road vehicle, etc.) by a freighter owner or administrative of this means of transportation, for an enterprise that is then the shipper. |
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Shipping agent or trustee of ships
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Representing the operator of the ship (shipowner or shipper in time) in a port of stopover. He recruits freight, deliver the merchandise, help the captain. He/it is remunerated by commissions on freight and fees of consignment. |
| Agréage |
Verification of the qualities of a merchandise by the care of an expert or a society of surveillance. |
| Auxiliary of transportation |
Beneficiary of services (transit, carrier) intermediate enters the enterprise and the customer who take care of the transit or transportation of the goods, of the information on the regulations and the fashions of transportation. He/it can be proxy or broker. |
| Particular damages - Particular average. |
Intervening damages accidentally by means of transportation or to his/her/its cargo. If goods were assured, the corresponding indemnities are deducted in a "dispache"
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| Common damages - General average. |
Losses or cool committed voluntarily by the Captain to save the ship and his/her/its cargo. The distribution of these expenses between the shipowner and the different shippers are made on the basis of the values of goods saved, by a "dispateur" (average adjuster) established (adjustment) by a" broker of damage (adjuster)" who establishes a" regulation of common damage" giving (average statement) the detail of the contribution (ship's proportion) of each of the participants.While waiting for the regulation of common damage, the receivers of the cargo must sign a" compromise of common damage" and (average jump) must pour a temporary contribution fixed in agreement between the dispacheur and the shipowner. |
| Avitaillement |
Provisions, fuels and various supplies destined to the working of the aerial and maritime means of transportation as well as the food and the comfort of their passengers and crews.
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| BAF |
Bunker Adjustment Factor: Tax serving to compensate the variations of the prices of fuels (maritime transportation).
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| Bill of Lading |
B/L. Bill of lading: maritime transportation document |
| Office of domiciliation |
Office of custom where is centralized all operations of an enterprise in the setting of a particular procedure of which she/it has the profit (for example in the setting of a clearance procedure at home). Office of custom where is centralized all operations of an enterprise in the setting of a particular procedure of which she/it has the profit (for example in the setting of a clearance procedure at home). Offices of uniting said" in the setting of this procedure, the offices of which depend the different sites from which are achieved the physical operations of import and/or export, ". |
| CAF |
Currency Adjustment Factor : Taxe servant à compenser les variations des cours des monnaies, par exemple un fret en dollars (transport maritime). |
| Certificat of origine |
Document attesting the origin of a merchandise and established by an authority authorized in the country of origin. Document having an indicative value not binding in anything the service of import custom.
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| Certificat EUR1 |
Named document as" certificate of circulation" that attests the origin of the goods in the setting of some preferential agreements. |
| Chargeur |
Confident physical or moral person a merchandise to route to a carrier for account of others. |
| Charte partie |
Document emitted in case of ship chartering. He/it fixes the contractual conditions of the agreement according to free shapes and to the discretion of the parts. Some charters types (Gencon, Synacomex, Intertankvoy.) exist however. |
| Connaissement |
Bill of lading = B/L: Maritime transportation document. |
| Conférence |
Freight conference. Grouping of shipowners going against the same lines, having concluded between them of the traffic agreements in the goal to regularize the competition, to organize the servicing of the ports, to standardize the tariffs and to foresee détaxes of fidelity. |
| Container Service Charge |
CSC = THC = Terminal Handling Charge: Expenses of embarking or landing (maritime transportation). |
| Conteneur complet |
FCL = Full Container Load: Loading of the goods in one unique container. The container is generally put in place in the local of the sender and is opened in the local of the recipient. |
| Credit of abduction |
Facilitated that permits to the declarants in custom to remove their goods with the progression of verifications and before payment of the rights and taxes.Facilitated granted in return for the subscription by the regional conductor of a submissiveness guarantied yearly by which the indebted commits to pay at the latest in the thirty days after their hold in account, the rights and taxes had to,increased of a discount of one for one thousand. Concerning accises, easiness offered the operator to acquit the rights thirty days after the term of the liquidation credit in return for the setting up of a guaranty. |
| Dépotage |
Stripping = unstuffing. Come out of the goods to the opening of the containers. |
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Unique administrative document
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(DAU) Form used to write the declarations in custom in normal procedure or the summary declarations in simplified procedures. Document presented under the shape of a sheaf to 8 leaflets (a 9th leaflet is used to the export for the products submitted to the Common Agricultural Politics). NB: This document is not used in Cameroon |
| Engagement de fret |
Booking notes. Agreement, signed by the parts, by which a shipper commits to hand a merchandise to a shipowner or to his/her/its agent and this one commits to embark it.The booking notes gives the detail of the goods to embark (rate of freight, days of board, ports of loading and discharge, date of embarking) with the possible observations. |
| Espèce tarifaire |
Nomenclature of a product in application of the customs tariff.
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| ETA |
Estimated Time Arrival. Date and hour foreseen of arrival of the ship in the port of stopover (if one doesn't specify the GMT, it is that it is about the local time). |
| E.T.C. |
Empty Trans Departure of. Empty container.
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| ETD |
Estimated Time Departure of. Date and hour planned for the departure.
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| Faculté |
Goods insurance, cargo insurance. Concerning insurance in which the insurers cover the total loss, the common damage, with the exception of the particular damages (Free of particular average). |
| FAP |
F.P.To. = Franc of particular damages. Formula of insurance in which the insurers cover the total loss, the common damage, with the exception of the particular damages (Free of particular average). |
| FAP sauf |
Formula of insurance analogous to the F.To.P. but covering, in addition, the damages due to some reasons to specify in the police (in general: boarding, échouement, fire, explosion, shock of a stationary or floating body).
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| Fortune de mer |
Perils of the sea. Accident of all natures occurring in sea to the ships and to the elated goods. |
| Full container load |
FCL = complete container: Loading of your goods in one unique container. The container is generally put in place in the local of the sender and is opened in the local of the recipient.
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| Gerbage |
Stacking. Empilage of containers or packets one on the other. |
| Groupage |
LCL = Less than Container Load: The merchandise is taken in charge by a groupeur (intermediate between the shipper and the company of transportation) who after having gathered it with other consignments for the same destination, puts back a complete share to the carrier. |
| Handling charge |
Expenses consecutive to the different manipulations undergone by the containers in the deposits or terminal. Expenses of various handlings. |
| Landing charges |
Expenses of discharge being added to freight. |
| LCL |
Less than Container Load = collecting: Says itself of an expedition not justifying the complete use of a container. The merchandise is taken in charge by a groupeur (intermediate between the shipper and the company of transportation) who after having gathered it with other consignments for the same destination, puts back a complete container to the carrier. |
| Store or temporary deposit area (M.A.D.T.) |
Place accepted for the temporary deposit of in waiting goods of a customs destination (for a delay of 45 days if it is about an import by maritime way, 20 days for all other type of import). |
| Store or area of export (M.A.E.) |
Place accepted for the storage of the goods declared to the export and that must make the object of a special surveillance on behalf of the service of the customs. |
| Mainlevée |
Act by which the agent of the customs after achievement of the formalities of the declaration in detail allows the declarant to remove some goods to give the destination in conformity with the régime under which they have been declared.
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| Manifeste |
Manifest. Maritime or aerial transportation document that sums up the set of the goods charged in a port or airport to another port or airport. |
| Notification |
Notify adress. Mention that one affixes on the document of transportation to specify people to warn at the time of the arrival of the merchandise.
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| Réserves |
Observation of shortages and damages to the hold in charge of goods, in order to determine the responsibilities subsequently. |
| Ro-ro/Roll on - Roll off |
Cart driver (ship) or Ro-ro. Ship to handling and to loading horizontal (by doors placed to the rear or on the side and by stationary or mobile interior rails).
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| Slot |
Site for a container on a ship door-containers.
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| Surfret |
Supplement raising freight according to the clutter of the ports (surfret of clutter = congestion charges), of the elevation of the price of the fuel (combustible surfret = bunker overloads), etc.
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| Transitaire |
Beneficiary of service who is in charge for the account of his/her/its customers, where he/it is installed, of the set of the relative operations to their goods: rupture of load, handling, storage, various commercial and administrative formalities.
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