Shipping Terms

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Accounts Payable

Active Inventory

Activity Analysis

Activity Based Budgeting (ABB)

Activity Based Costing (ABC)

Activity Based Costing Model

Activity Based Costing System

Activity Based Management (ABM)

Activity Based Planning (ABP)

Activity Dictionary

Activity Driver

Activity Network Diagram

Actual Cost System

Actual to Theoretical Cycle Time

Adaptive Control

Adaptive Smoothing

Advance Material Request

Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS)

Advanced Shipping Notice

After Sale Service

Aggregate Forecast

Aggregate Inventory

Aggregate Inventory Management

Aggregate Planning

Aggregate Tender Rate

Agile Manufacturing

Air Cargo Containers

Air Transport Association of America

Airline Terminal Fee (ATF)

Airport and Airway Trust Fund

Alaskan Carrier

All Cargo Carrier

Alternate Routing

American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI)

American National Standards Institute (ANSI)

American Society for Quality (ASQ)

American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM)

American Society for Training and Development (ASTD)

American Society of Transportation & Logistics

American Standard Code for Information Interchange

American Trucking Association (ATA)

American Waterways Operators

Anti-Dumping Duty

Anticipated Delay Report

Anticipation Inventories

Any Quantity Rate (AQ)

Appraisal Costs

Approved Vendor List (AVL)

Assemble-to-order

Association of American Railroads

Assumed Receipt

Automated Broker Interface (ABI)

Automated Call Distribution

Automated Clearing House (ACH)

Automated Commercial Environment (ACE)

Automated Guiding Vehicle System (AGVS)

Automated Manifest System (AMS)

Automated Storage-Retrieval System (AS-RS)

Automatic Relief

Automatic Rescheduling

Available Inventory

Available to Promise (ATP)

Available to Sell (ATS)

Average Cost per Unit

Average Inventory

Average Payment Period (for materials)

Berth (Shipping)

Bill of Entry (BE)

Bunker Adjustment Factor (BAF)

Cargo Agents Settlement System (CASS)

Carriage And Insurance Paid To (CIP)

Carriage Paid To (CPT)

Cellular Vessel

Certificate of Origin (CO)

Completely Knocked Down (CKD)

Container Yard (CY)

Contract of Carriage

Cost and Freight (CFR)

Cost, Insurance and Freight (CIF)

Currency Adjustment Factor (CAF)

Deadweight Tonnage (DWT)

Delivered At Place (DAP)

Delivered Duty Paid (DDP)

Delivered at Terminal (DAT)

Faster Clearance of Import Containers Facilitated by JNPT/JNCH

Five Exporting Mistakes You Might Be Making

Free Alongside Ship (FAS)

Free Carrier (FCA)

Free On Board (FOB)

Full Container Load (FCL)

General Average

High cube container (40HC)

Import General Manifest (IGM)

Intermodal Freight Transport

Knot [Nautical]

Kyoto Convention

Less than Container Load (LCL)

Lift-on, lift-off (Lo - Lo)

Over Dimensional Cargo (ODC)

Shipping Conference

Unit Load Device (ULD)

Vessel Load Free Out

Vessel Turnaround Time

York-Antwerp Rules of 1974

Zone of Rate Flexibility

Zone of Rate Freedom

Zone of Reasonableness