Essential Logistics and Shipping Terms
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- Carriage - transporte: Transport
- Liability - responsabilidad: Responsibility
- Contract Rate - tasas de contrato: Low freight rate promised by a carrier for an extended period, in exchange for a large volume commitment from a customer.
- Commodity - mercancia: Article of trade or commerce.
- Merchandise - mercancia: Commercial goods; commodities.
- Shipment - envio: Act of sending something, usually a large quantity of objects to a place far away.
- Facility - instalaciones: A place, especially including buildings, where a particular activity happens.
- Freight/Cargo - carga: Goods carried by a ship, aircraft, or other vehicle.
- Inland - tierra adentro: In the interior of a country or region, away from a sea or border.
- In Bulk - a granel: In large quantities; unpackaged.
- Aboard: On, in, onto, or into (a ship, train, aircraft, etc.).
- Fleet - flota: A group of ships, or all of the ships in a country's navy.
- To Crew - tripulacion: To be a member of a group of people who work together, especially all those who work on and operate a ship, aircraft, etc.
- Merchant Navy/Merchant Marine: A country's ships that carry goods and are not used for military purposes.
- Barge - barcaza: A long boat with a flat bottom, used for carrying heavy objects on rivers or canals.
- To Pick Up: To collect.
- Current - corriente: Present, belonging to the present time.
- Bulk Cargos - graneles: Unpackaged cargoes, such as grain or coal.
- Merely - meramente: Simply.
- Procedure - procedimiento: Manner of proceeding; a way of performing or effecting something: standard procedure, series of steps taken to accomplish an end.
- Onward - adelante: Towards a point or position ahead, in advance, forward.
- To Undertake - para llevar a cabo: To contract to or commit oneself to (something) or (to do something).
- Quay - muelle: Wharf where ships are loaded or unloaded.
- Hub: Centre (of activity).
- Premises - local: Building especially considered as a place of business.
- Conveyance - transporte: Means of transport.
- Thereafter - despues de eso: From then on.
- Clearance - despeje: Having filed the Shippers' Export Declaration and got export permit.