Freight forwarding business acronyms

A/W Waterway All Water

ANER Asia North America Eastbound Freight Agreement Asia NorthAmerica EastboundRate

BAF Fuel Surcharge Bunker AdjustmentFactor

CC Freight To Collect

CSC Container Service Charges Container Service Charge

CY Container Yard Container Yard

C/(CNEE) Consignee

C/O Certificate Certificate of Origin

CAF Currency Exchange Surcharge Currency Adjustment Factor

CFS Bulk Warehouse Container Freight Station

CFS/CFS Bulk Delivery (Start/End)

CHB Customs House Broker

CTNR Cabinet Container

CY/CY full cabinet delivery (start/end)

D/O arrival notice Delivery Order

Doc# Document Number Document Number

EPS Equipment Location Surcharges

F/F Freight Forwarder Freight Forwarder

FAF Fuel Surcharge Fuel AdjustmentFactor

FAK variety of goods Freight All Kind

FCL Full Container Load

Feeder Vessel/Lighter Barge Voyage

FEU 40' Cabinet Forty-Foot Equivalent Unit 40'

FMC Federal Maritime Commission Federal Maritime Commission

GRI General Rate Increase General RateIncrease

H/C Agency Charges Handling Charge

HBL bill of lading House B/L

I/S Sales Inside Sales

IA Individual Price Adjustments

L/C Letter of Credit

Land Bridge Land Bridge

LCL Cabinet Less Than Container Load

M/T size ton (ie, charge for goods in size) Measurement Ton

MB/L Master Bill of Lading Master Bill Of Loading

MLB Small Land Bridge, from one port to another Minni Land Bridge

Mother Vessel Mainline Ship

MTD multimodal transport document Multimodal Transport Document

N/F Notifier Notify

NVOCC NVOCC Non Vessel OperatingCommon Carrier

O/F Ocean Freight Ocean Freight

OBL ocean bill of lading Ocean (or original )B/L

OCP Shipowners Arrange to Ship to Inland Point Overland Continental Point

OP operation

ORC Local Receipts (Guangdong Province) Origen Recevie Charges

PP Prepaid Prepaid

PCS port congestion surcharge Port Congestion Surcharge

POD Destination Port Of Destination

POL Port of Loading Port Of Loading

PSS Peak Season Surcharges

S/(Shpr) Shipper Shipper

S/C Sales Contract Sales Contract

S/O Loading Instructions Shipping Order

S/R Selling Price Selling Rate

S/S Spread Sheet Spread Sheet

SC Service Contract Service Contract

SSL Ship Company Steam Ship Line

TOC terminal operating expenses Terminal Operations Option

TRC Terminal Receiving Charge

T/S transshipment, Trans-Ship

T/T range Transit Time

TEU 20' Cabinet Twenty-Foot Equivalent Unit 20'

THC Terminal Operation Fee (Charged in Hong Kong) Terminal Handling Charges

TTL Total

TVC/ TVR Regular Quota Contract Time Volume Contract/ Rate

VOCC Shipping Company Vessel Operating Common Carrier

W/M is weight ton or size ton from high charge Weight or Measurement ton

W/T weight tons (that is, goods charge by weight) Weight Ton

YAS dock surcharge Yard Surcharges