Glossary of terms

Shipping                           

Shipping means the owner of the Ship

Mother vessel

It means large ship that carries cargo from load port to transshipment port.

Feeder vessel

The small ships that carries cargo to and from Transshipment port. Then after the cargo to be load or move through Mother vessel.

Liner service

The major steamer with more or less fixed routes with fixed schedule to carry goods from load port to destination port.

Charter

This a document of agreement made between charter and a ship owner. The activity we can called as chartering

C & F Agent

The customs clearing agent who is the Agents/middleman authorized by the customs to undertake customs formalities on behalf of the exporters or importers.

Containers

Metal boxes used to transport the cargo, The different types of container 20',40' (GP/OT/reffer)

Load lines

The load line convention regulates the safe depth to which vessels may be loaded.

TFUs

The capacity of container ships is measured in terms of the number of TEUs ( Twenty Foot / 40' container we can say 2 TEU's