In the international shipping container business, some abbreviations are often used, and some of the more commonly used abbreviations are sorted out for your reference.
Abbreviations commonly used for shipping containers
A/W All Water
ANER Asia North America East Freight Agreement Asia NorthAmerica EastboundRate
B/L Bill of Lading
Buying Rate for B/R
BAF Fuel Surcharge Bunker AdjustmentFactor
C & F cost plus sea freight COST AND FREIGHT
C.C to pay Collect
C.S.C container service Container Service Charge
C.Y. container yard Container Yard
C/(CNEE) Consignee Consignee
C/O certificate of origin Certificate of Origin
CAF Currency Exchange Rate Surcharge Currency Adjustment Factor
CFS bulk warehouse Container Freight Station
CFS/CFS Bulk Delivery (Start/End)
CHB customs broker Customs House Broker
CIF cost, insurance plus sea freight COST,INSURANCE,FRIGHT
CIP freight, insurance to destination Carriage and Insurance Paid To
COMM commodity Commodity
CPT freight to destination Carriage Paid To
CTNR cabinet Container
CY/CY Whole Cabinet Delivery (Start/End)
D/A acceptance order Document Against Acceptance
D/O arrival notification Delivery Order
D/P payment order Document Against Payment
DAF border delivery Delivered At Frontier
DDC Destination Port Terminal Fee Destination Delivery Charge
DDP Duty Paid Delivered Duty Paid
DDU duty-not-paid delivery Delivered Duty Unpaid
DEQ Destination Terminal Delivery Delivered Ex Quay
DES Destination Port Ship Delivery Delivered Ex Ship
Doc# file number Document Number
EPS Equipment Location Surcharge Equipment Position Surcharges
Ex factory delivery Work/ExFactory
F/F freight forwarder Freight Forwarder
FAF Fuel Surcharge Fuel AdjustmentFactor
FAK all kinds of goods Freight All Kind
FAS port of shipment side delivery Free Alongside Ship
FCA delivery carrier Free Carrier
FCL full cabinet Full Container Load
Feeder Vessel/Lighter barge voyage
FEU 40 'Cabinet Forty-Foot Equivalent Unit 40'
FMC Federal Maritime Commission Federal Maritime Commission
FOB FOB Free On Board
GRI Full Price Rise General RateIncrease
H/C agent fee Handling Charge
HBL sub-bill of lading House B/L
Inside Sales in I/S
IA separate price adjustment Independent Action
L/C Letter of Credit
Land Bridge land bridge
LCL cabinet Less Than Container Load
M/T size ton (I. e. goods are charged by size) Measurement Ton
MB/L master bill of lading Master Bill Of Loading
MLB small land bridge, from one port to another port Minni Land Bridge
Mother Vessel mainline ship
MTD Multimodal Transport Document Multimodal Transport Document
Notify
NVOCC NVOCC Non Vessel OperatingCommon Carrier
O/F sea freight Ocean Freight
OBL ocean bill of lading Ocean (or original )B/L
OCP shippers arrange their own transportation to inland points Overland Continental Point
OP operating Operation
ORC Local Receiving Fee (Guangdong Province) Origen Recevie Charges
P.P prepaid Prepaid
PCS Port Congestion Surcharge Port Congestion Surcharge
POD Port Of Destination
POL port of shipment Loading
PSS Peak Season Surcharge Peak Season Sucharges
S/(Shpr) consignor Shipper
S/C sales contract Sales Contract
S/O loading instruction Shipping Order
S/R selling price Selling Rate
SC service contract Service Contract
SSL Shipping Company Steam Ship Line
T.O.C terminal operation fee Terminal Operations Option
T.R.C terminal collection fee Terminal Receiving Charge
T/S transshipment, transshipment Trans-Ship
T/T range Transit Time
TEU 20 'Cabinet Twenty-Foot Equivalent Unit 20'
THC Terminal Operation Fee (Hong Kong Charge) Terminal Handling Charges
Total TTL
TVC/TVR periodic quantitative contract Time Volume Contract/ Rate
VOCC Shipping Company Vessel Operating Common Carrier
W/M is based on weight tons or size tons from high-charge Weight or Measurement ton
W/T weight tons (I. e., goods are charged by weight) Weight Ton
YAS Terminal Surcharge Yard Surcharges
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