Glossary of Shipping Terms:
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Place of Despatch
Name and address specifying where goods are collected or taken over by the carrier (i.e. if other than consignor).
Place of Receipt
The location where a consignment (shipment) is received by the carrier from the shipper viz. the place where the carrier's liability for transport venture commences.
Placement
The activity of positioning an object or goods in a chosen location or position.
Planning
The setting of goals over a certain time and the determination of how to achieve these goals and with what resource.
Planning Horizon
The period of time to which a certain particular plan relates.
Platform
The area on an airport where aircrafts are parked for embarkation and/ or loading and discharging purposes (air cargo).
Platform Body
A truck or trailer without ends, sides or top but with only a floor.
Plimsoll Mark
A mark, welded on both sides of the vessel, which gives the limit to which a vessel may be loaded, depending on the specific gravity of the water in which the vessel is situated.
Point Value
The point value can be seen as the relative value of an empty container of a certain size type in a depot location. The system serves to quantify the imbalance costs resulting from a full container move and are the result of empty optimisation calculations.
Point values are created on forecasted container flows between depot locations.
They are calculated taking into account a.o. the forecasted imbalances plus repositioning, storage and container costs for empty moves and expressed in USD.
Note: In the various computer systems point values are used to calculate the imbalance charge or credit for a particular container flow. This charge or credit is the difference in point values between start and end depot location.
Point to Point Transport
See: House to House Transport
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Pontoon
A floating flat structure used for work alongside the ship, to facilitate embarkation or disembarkation of persons, or to move cargo alongside.
Pool
The shared use of e.g. equipment by a number of companies, which make together the investments in the equipment mentioned.
Poop
Aft part of a vessel where the steering engine is located.
Port
- Harbour having facilities for vessels to moor and load or discharge.
- Left side of a vessel when facing towards the front or forward end.
Port of Call
Place where a vessel actually drops anchor or moors during a certain voyage.
Port of Discharge
The port where the cargo is actually discharged (unloaded) from the sea (ocean) going vessel.
Port of Loading
The port where the cargo is actually loaded on board the sea (ocean) going vessel.
Portal Crane
A type of gantry crane with vertical legs of sufficient height and width to permit vehicles or railroad equipment to pass between the legs.
Portlog
A statement concerning a vessel containing the actual arrival and departure time used tugs, draft, dead-weight, quantity of discharged and loaded goods/containers and any other important particulars.
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