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U.S. Department of Transportation
Domeniu: Government
Number of terms: 13754
Number of blossaries: 0
Company Profile:
A transportation company which provides service to the general public at published rates.
Industry:Transportation
Individual employed in a port to load and unload ships.
Industry:Transportation
Any ship which is not required by treaty or statute to be equipped with radiotelecommunication equipment.
Industry:Transportation
Law that derives its force and authority from precedent, custom and usage rather than from statutes, particularly with reference to the laws of England and the United States.
Industry:Transportation
Insurance coverage for loss of goods resulting from any act of war.
Industry:Transportation
Is the person designated by the company for ensuring that a ship security assessment is carried out and that a ship security plan is developed, submitted for approval and thereafter implemented and maintained for liaison with port facility security officers and the ship security officer.
Industry:Transportation
A trailer or semi–trailer with no sides and with the floor of the unit close to the ground.
Industry:Transportation
A place for the reception, delivery, consolidation, distribution, and storage of goods/cargo.
Industry:Transportation
Any ship which is required to be equipped with radiotelecommunication equipment in order to comply with the radio or radio-navigation provisions of a treaty or statute to which the vessel is subject.
Industry:Transportation
A carrier giving a customer illegal preference to attract cargo. This can take the form of a money refund (rebate); using lower figures than actual for the assessment of freight charges (undercubing); misdeclaration of the commodity shipped to allow the assessment of a lower tariff rate; waiving published tariff charges for demurrage, CFS handling or equalization; providing specialised equipment to a shipper to the detriment of other shippers, etc.
Industry:Transportation