Glossary of Shipping Terms:
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Standard Product Module (SPM)
The building blocks used by business management to define services (shipment products) which can be offered to customers. They describe a more or less isolated set of activities with a standard cost attached to it. For operations management each module defines a combination of standard operations that needs to be carried out for a customer.
Note: SPM's can be regarded as the interface between business and operations management.
Standardisation
The development of agreements whose purpose is to align formalities, procedures, documents, information, and operations. At a national level, this would be alignment with acceptable commercial norms and practices, at an international level it would alignment with identified "best" and/or most accepted practices.
Starboard
Right side of a vessel when facing towards the front or forward end.
State of Origin
The state in the territory in which the cargo was first loaded.
Steering of Containers
The function, with the aid of specific software for tracking and forecasting, to direct empty containers to demanding areas at minimum costs.
Stem
The foremost part of a vessel.
Stern
The aftermost part of a vessel.
Stevedore
A party running a business of which the functions are loading, stowing and discharging vessels.
Stock
The materials in a supply chain or in a segment of a supply chain, expressed in quantities, locations and or values. UK.
Stock Control
The systematic administration of stock levels with respect to quantity at all times.
Stock Keeping Unit
The description of the unit of measurement by which the stock items are recorded on the stock record.
Stock Locator System
A system in which all places within a warehouse are named or numbered.
Stock Point
A point in the supply chain meant to keep materials available.
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Stock Record
A record of the quantity of stock of a single item, often containing a history of recent transactions and information for controlling the replenishment of stock.
Storage
The activity of placing goods into a store or the state of being in store (e.g. a warehouse).
Storage Charge
The fee for keeping goods in a warehouse.
Stores
Provisions and supplies on board required for running a vessel.
Stowage
The placing and securing of cargo or containers on board a vessel or an aircraft or of cargo in a container.
Stowage Factor
Ratio of a cargo's cubic measurement to its weight, expressed in cubic feet to the ton or cubic metres to the tonne, used in order to determine the total quantity of cargo which can be loaded in a certain space.
Stowage Instructions
Imperative details about the way certain cargo is to be stowed, given by the shipper or his agent.
Stowage Plan
A plan indicating the locations on the vessel of all the consignments for the benefit of stevedores and vessel's officers.
Stowaway
An unwanted person who hides on board of a vessel or an aircraft to get free passage, to evade port officials.
In IMO definition: A person who is secreted on a ship or in cargo which is subsequently loaded on the ship, without the consent of the shipowner or the master or any other responsible person who is detected on board after the ship has departed from a port and reported as a stowaway by the master.
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