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B / L |
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A particular article, stipulation or single proviso in a Bill of Lading. A clause can be standard and can be pre- |
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BSI Container Specification |
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Accidents of a nature beyond human control such as flood, lightning or hurricane usually quoted as 'force majeure'. |
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Bank Guarantee |
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An undertaking by a bank to be answerable for payment of a sum of money in the event of non performance by the party |
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on whose behalf the guarantee is issued. |
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Bar Coding |
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A method of encoding data for fast and accurate
electronic readability. Bar codes are a series
of alternating |
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bars and spaces printed or stamped
on products, labels, or other media, representing
encoded information |
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which can be read by electronic
readers, used to facilitate timely and accurate
input of data to a computer |
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system. Bar codes represent letters and/or numbers and special characters
like +, /, -, etc. |
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Bay |
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A vertical division of a vessel from stem to stern,
used as a part of the indication of a stowage
place for containers. |
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The numbers run from stem
to stern; odd numbers indicate a 20 foot position,
even numbers indicate a 40 foot position. |
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Bay Plan |
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A stowage plan which shows the locations of all
the containers on the vessel. |
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Berth |
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A location in a port where a vessel can be moored
often indicated by a code or name. |
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Bilateral Transport Agreement |
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Agreement between two nations concerning their
transport relations. |
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Bill of Exchange |
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An unconditional order in writing to pay a certain
sum of money to a named person. |
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Bill of Health |
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The Bill of Health is the certificate issued by
local medical authorities indicating the general
health conditions in the |
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port of departure or
in the ports of call. The Bill of Health must
have been visaed before departure by the |
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Consul
of the country of destination. |
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When a vessel has free pratique, this means that
the vessel has a clean Bill of Health certifying
that there is |
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no question of contagious disease
and that all quarantine regulations have been
complied with, so that |
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people mayembark and disembark. |
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Bill of Lading |
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Abbreviation: B/L, plural Bs/L
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A document which evidences a contract of carriage by sea. |
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The document has the
following functions: |
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A receipt for goods, signed by a duly authorised person on behalf of the carriers |
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A document of title to the goods described therein |
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Evidence of the terms and conditions of carriage agreed upon between the two parties |
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At the moment 3 different models are used: |
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A document for either
Combined Transport or Port to Port shipments
depending whether the relevant |
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spaces for place of receipt and/or place of delivery
are indicated on the face of the document. |
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A classic marine Bill of Lading in which the carrier is also responsible for the part of the transport actually |
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performed by himself |
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Sea Waybill: A non-negotiable
document, which can only be made out to
a named consignee. No surrender of |
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the document
by the consignee is required |
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Bill of Lading Clause |
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A particular article, stipulation or single proviso
in a Bill of Lading. A clause can be standard
and can be pre- |
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printed on the B/L. |
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Bill of Material |
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A list of all parts, sub-assemblies and raw materials
that constitute a particular assembly, showing
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quantity of each required item. |
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Block Train |
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A number of railway wagons (loaded with containers), departing from a certain place and running straight to |
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a place of destination, without marshalling, transhipping or any coupling or de-coupling of wagons. |
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Bona Fide |
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In good faith; without dishonesty, fraud or deceit. |
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Bonded |
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The storage of certain goods under charge of customs viz. customs seal until the import duties are paid or |
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guntil the oods are taken out of the country. |
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Bonded warehouse (place where goods can be placed under bond) |
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Bonded store
(place on a vessel where goods are placed behind seal until the time that the vessel leaves the port |
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or country again)Bonded goods (dutiable goods upon which duties have not been paid i.e. goods in transit or |
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warehoused pending customs clearance) |
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Booking |
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The offering by a shipper of cargo for transport and the acceptance of the offering by the carrier or his agent. |
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Booking Reference Number |
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The number assigned to a certain booking by the carrier or his agent. |
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Break Bulk |
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To commence discharge |
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To strip unitised cargo |
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Break Bulk Cargo |
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General cargo conventionally stowed as opposed to unitised, containerised and Roll On-Roll Off cargo. |
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Broker |
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Person who acts as an agent or intermediary in negotiating contracts. |
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Brussels Tariff Nomenclature |
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The old Customs Co-operation Council Nomenclature for the classification of goods. Now replaced by the Harmonised System. |
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Buffer Stock |
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A quantity of goods or articles kept in store to safeguard against unforeseen shortages or demands. |
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Bulk Cargo |
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Unpacked homogeneous cargo poured loose in a certain space of a vessel or container e.g. oil and grain. |
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Bulk Carrier |
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Single deck vessel designed to carry homogeneous unpacked dry cargoes such as grain, iron ore and coal. |
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Bulk Container |
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A container designed for the carriage of free-flowing dry cargoes, which are loaded through hatchways in |
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the roof of the container and discharged through hatchways at one end of the container. |
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Bunker Adjustment Factor |
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Abbreviation: BAF
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Adjustment applied by liner or liner conferences to offset the effect of fluctuations in the cost of bunkers. |
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Bunkers |
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Quantity of fuel on board a vessel. |
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Bureau Veritas |
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French classification society. |
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Business Process |
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A business process is the action taken to respond to particular events, convert inputs into outputs, and |
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produce particular results. Business processes are what the enterprise must do to conduct its business successfully. |
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Business Process Model |
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The business process model provides a breakdown (process decomposition) of all levels of business processes within the scope of a business area. It also shows process dynamics, lower-level process interrelationships. In Summary it includes all diagrams related to a process definition that allows for understanding what the business process is doing (and not how). |
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Buyer |
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Party to which merchandise is sold. |
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The process of receiving a consignment from a consignor, usually against the issue of a receipt. As from this moment and on this place the carrier's responsibility for the consignment begins. |
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