Glossary of Shipping Terms:
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Bill of Material
A list of all parts, sub-assemblies and raw materials that constitute a particular assembly, showing the quantity of each required item.
Bimodal Trailer
- A road semi-trailer with retractable running gear to allow mounting on a pair of rail boogies.
- A trailer which is able to carry different types of standardised unit loads, (e.g. a chassis which is appropriate for the carriage of one FEU or two TEU's).
Binnacle
Support mounted on the bridge deck to hold the compass.
Block Train
A number of railway wagons (loaded with containers), departing from a certain place and running straight to a place of destination, without marshalling, transhipping or any coupling or de-coupling of wagons.
Boat
A small open decked craft carried on board ships for a specific purpose e.g. lifeboat, workboat.
Boatman
Person who attends to the mooring and unmooring of vessels.
Bollard
Post, fixed to a quay or a vessel, for securing mooring ropes.
Bolster
See: Container Bolster
Bona Fide
In good faith; without dishonesty, fraud or deceit.
Bonded
The storage of certain goods under charge of customs viz. customs seal until the import duties are paid or until the goods are taken out of the country.
- Bonded warehouse (place where goods can be placed under bond).
- Bonded store (place on a vessel where goods are placed behind seal until the time that the vessel leaves the port or country again).
- Bonded goods (dutiable goods upon which duties have not been paid i.e. goods in transit or warehoused pending customs clearance).
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Booking
The offering by a shipper of cargo for transport and the acceptance of the offering by the carrier or his agent.
Booking Reference Number
The number assigned to a certain booking by the carrier or his agent.
Bordereau
Document used in road transport, listing the cargo carried on a road vehicle, often referring to appended copies of the road consignment note.
Bottleneck
A stage in a process which limits performance.
Note: Generally this is interpreted as a facility, function, department etc. that impedes performance, for example a warehouse or distribution centre where goods arrive at a faster rate than they can be transported or stored, thus causing stock-piling at improper moments or in unwanted areas.
Bottom Fittings
Special conical shaped devices inserted between a container and the permanent floor on the deck of a vessel in order to avoid shifting of the container during the voyage of this vessel.
Bottom Lift
Handling of containers with equipment attached to the four bottom corner fittings (castings).
Bottomry
Money borrowed against a ship, or its equipment, repaid with interest upon the ship's arrival at port, and forfeited should the ship sink.
Bow-truster
Machine located towards the forward end of a ship below the waterline, which can produce a lateral trust mostly by means of a propeller.
Box
Colloquial name for container (e.g. Box-club).
Box Pallet
Pallet with at least three fixed, removable or collapsible, vertical sides.
Branch Warehouse
See: Distribution Centre
Break Bulk
- To commence discharge.
- To strip unitised cargo.
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