Glossary of Shipping Terms:
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Competent Authority Approval (CAA)
A competent authority means any national regulatory body or authority designated or otherwise recognised as such for any purpose in connection with IMO code.
Component
A uniquely identifiable product that is considered indivisible for a particular planning or control purpose, and/or which cannot be decomposed without destroying it.
Note: A component for one organisational group may be the final assembly of another group (e.g. electric motor).
Compradore
A local advisor or agent employed by a foreign party or company who acts as an intermediary in transactions with local inhabitants.
Computer Virus
A program that can infect other programs by modifying them to include a possibly evolved copy of itself.
Conair Container
Thermal container served by an external cooling system (e.g. a vessel's cooling system or a Clip On Unit), which regulates the temperature of the cargo.
Note: Conair is a brand name.
Conditions
- Anything called for as requirements before the performance or completion of something else.
- Contractual stipulations which are printed on a document or provided separately.
Conditions of Carriage
The general terms and conditions established by a carrier in respect of the carriage (air cargo).
Conditions of Contract
Terms and conditions shown on the Air Waybill (air cargo).
Cones
Devices for facilitating the loading, positioning and lashing of containers. The cones insert into the bottom castings of the container.
Conference
See: Liner conference
Congestion
Accumulation of vessels at a port to the extent that vessels arriving to load or discharge are obliged to wait for a vacant berth.
Connecting Carrier
A carrier to whose services the cargo is to be transferred for onward connecting transport (air cargo).
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Connecting Road Haulage
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Consensus
General agreement, characterised by the absence of sustained opposition to substantial issues by any important part of concerned interests and by a process that involves seeking to take into account the views of all parties concerned and to reconcile any conflicting arguments. Consensus needs not to imply unanimity.
Consignee
The party such as mentioned in the transport document by whom the goods, cargo or containers are to be received.
Consignment
A separate identifiable number of goods (available to be) transported from one consignor to one consignee via one or more than one modes of transport and specified in one single transport document.
Consignment Instructions
Instructions from either the seller/consignor or the buyer/consignee to a freight forwarder, carrier or his agent, or other provider of a service, enabling the movement of goods and associated activities. The following functions can be covered:
- Movement and handling of goods (shipping, forwarding and stowage).
- Customs formalities.
- Distribution of documents.
- Allocation of documents (freight and charges for the connected operations).
- Special instructions (insurance, dangerous goods, goods release, additional documents required).
Consignment Note
A document prepared by the shipper and comprising a transport contract. It contains details of the consignment to be carried to the port of loading and it is signed by the inland carrier as proof of receipt.
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