Glossary

A charge made for lifting articles too heavy to be lifted by a ship’s normal tackle.

Compression of a flat or standard bale of cotton to approximately 32 pounds per cubic foot. Usually applies to cotton exported or shipped coastwise.

The marrying of two or more portions of one shipment that originate at different locations, moving under one bill of lading, from one shipper to one consignee. Authority for this service must be…

A barge which loads material dumped into it by a dredger and discharges the cargo through the bottom.

See Door–to–Door.

Cargo loaded into a container by the shipper under shipper’s supervision. When the cargo is exported, it is unloaded at the foreign pier destination.

The process of connecting a moving rail car with a motionless rail car within a rail classification yard in order to make up a train. The cars move by gravity from an incline…

International Maritime Consultative Organization. A forum in which most major maritime nations participate and through which recommendations for the carriage of dangerous goods, bulk commodities, and maritime regulations become internationally acceptable.

International Maritime Dangerous Goods Code. The regulations published by the IMO for transporting hazardous materials internationally.

International Standards Organization which deals in standards of all sorts, ranging from documentation to equipment packaging and labeling.