The Maritime Industry Guide
A cargo securing manual prescribes how cargo onboard a ship should be stowed and secured. It is mandatory to have a cargo securing manual on board an ocean vessel and it guides its users on how to transport cargo safely from one point to another.
Freight containers that are used for intermodal transport, especially international transport, have small plates with data, fixed on them. Find out more about CSC Plate inside the article.
Does your business require transporting large quantities of liquids or powders in drums or tanks? Learn more about flexitanks inside this article.
Do you know what is inbound and outbound logistics? An understanding of the word ‘logistics’ would help us to appreciate the terms inbound and outbound logistics better.
What is Original Equipment Manufacturing (OEM) and ODM or Original Design Manufacturing in shipping? Let’s find out in detail in this article.
Typically, cargo transport involves sending goods either as a Full Container Load (FCL) or as Less-than Container Load (LCL). It is not necessary that when you have an LCL shipment for sending to your customer that you hire or lease a full container to send it to them. This is where the term Groupage comes in.
When a shipper owns a freight container, it is called a Shipper-Owned Container shortened to SOC. The shipper who owns the container may be an organization or an individual. Find out more about SOC inside the article.
Just as you would fumigate your homes and property to get rid of pests, and prevent them from coming back, shipping containers need fumigation too. Find out everything about the fumigation certificate inside the article.
The fees charged by a port terminal operator to the vessel operator are called Terminal Handling Charges or THC. Find out everything you wanted to know about terminal charges inside the article.