Liner Terms
Container shipping terms: Main abbreviations
Door to Door
Door to Door
Door to Door
Carrier organizes delivery from shipper’s warehouse to the consignee warehouse. All fees including land delivery both ends, transhipments, surcharges, ocean or air freight, terminal handling charges (THCs) are included.
Door-LO
Door to Door
Door to Door
Door/Liner out. Carrier organizes delivery from shipper’s warehouse to destination terminal. All fees up to destination terminal including origin land delivery, transhipments, surcharges, ocean or air freight and terminal handling charges (THCs) are included.
Door-CY
Door to Door
Door-CY
Door/container yard. Carrier organizes delivery from shipper’s warehouse to container yard at destination. All fees up to destination container yard including origin land delivery, transhipments, surcharges, ocean or air freight, terminal handling charges (THCs) and destination terminal forwarding are included.
Door-FO
Door-FO
Door-CY
Door/free out. Carrier organizes delivery from shipper’s warehouse to destination terminal. All fees up to destination terminal including origin land delivery, transhipments, surcharges, ocean or air freight are included, except DTHC.
FIOS
Door-FO
FIOS
Free in/out and stowed. Loading/discharging THCs are not included. Only main freight including surcharges are included.
FIFO
Door-FO
FIOS
Free in/out. Loading/discharging THCs are not included. Only main freight are considered including surcharges.
LIFO
LIFO
LIFO
Liner in/free out. Main freight with loading OTHC included, discharging DTHC is not included.
LILO
LIFO
LIFO
Liner in/out. Main freight with loading/discharging THCs is included.
FILO
LIFO
FILO
Free in/liner out. Main freight without loading OTHC and with discharging DTHC is included.
LICY
LICY
FILO
Liner in/container yard. Main freight with loading OTHC and discharging DTHC plus destination terminal forwarding fees are included.
FICY
LICY
FICY
Free in/container yard. Main freight without loading OTHC and discharging DTHC plus destination terminal forwarding fees are included.
CYCY
LICY
FICY
Container yard/container yard. Main freight with loading/discharging THCs plus origin and destination terminal forwarding fees are included.
CYLO
CY-DOOR
CYLO
Container yard/liner out. Main freight with origin terminal forwarding fees, loading OTHC and discharging DTHC are included.
CYFO
CY-DOOR
CYLO
Container yard/free out. Main freight with origin terminal forwarding fees and loading OTHC included. Discharging DTHC is not included.
CY-DOOR
CY-DOOR
CY-DOOR
Container yard/door. Carrier organizes delivery from container yard at origin to the consignee’s warehouse. All fees from the origin container yard including origin terminal forwarding, terminal handling charges (THCs), ocean or air freight, surcharges, transhipments, destination land delivery are included.
LI-DOOR
LI-DOOR
CY-DOOR
Liner in/door. Carrier organizes delivery from origin terminal to the consignee’s warehouse. All fees including origin terminal handling charges (THCs), ocean or air freight, surcharges, transhipments, destination land delivery are included.
FI-DOOR
LI-DOOR
FI-DOOR
Free in/door. Carrier organizes delivery from origin terminal to the consignee’s warehouse. All fees including ocean or air freight, surcharges, transhipments, DTHC, destination land delivery are inside. Loading OTHC is not included.
Possible surcharges depending upon Line
CAF
WHARFAGE
WHARFAGE
Currency Adjustment Factor (CAF) is a fee applied to the shipping costs to compensate for exchange rate fluctuations.
WHARFAGE
WHARFAGE
WHARFAGE
Wharfage Is the port fee for using a wharf to unload cargo from a vessel. Wharfage is normally included in the freight cost or the THC, unless otherwise stated.
CUC
WHARFAGE
CUC
Chassis Utilization Charge (CUC) is a fee for utilization of chassis;
BAF
LETTER OF CORRECTION
CUC
Bunker Adjustment Factor (BAF) refers to fuel part of sea freight charges which represents fluctuations due to oil prices.
DOCUMENTATION FEE
LETTER OF CORRECTION
LETTER OF CORRECTION
Documentation fee is a charge for printing and delivering documents, etc.
LETTER OF CORRECTION
LETTER OF CORRECTION
LETTER OF CORRECTION
Letter of Correction (LOC) is a charge for correcting or ammending documents at destination.
Depending on shipping line extension of activity in the given territory, container can be delivered to the container yard located nearby port or to the hinterland. Also it can be delivered to the client's "door". Taking it into account the next additional terms can be added to the main line ones.
As a rule if line provides door-to-door container delivering it hardly ever stuff or unstuff containers. This issue is resolved by consigner's effort or with help of forwarder.
Taken and improved from "Searates from DP World"
Taken and improved from "Searates from DP World"
Taken and improved from "Searates from DP World"
Taken and improved from "Searates from DP World"
Taken and improved from "Searates from DP World"
Taken and improved from "Searates from DP World"
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