GLOSSARY

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Car Carrier: Roll-on/roll-off type of ship, specialized in the transport of automobiles, it may also transport other equivalent vehicles.

Cargo Broker: Intermediary agent who links the shipowner/maritime agent with the shipper, to reserve space for cargo.

Carrier: Transporter, the one who provides transport services to others, i.e. the shipowner or, as may be the case, the freighter. Ship or vehicle destined to the transport of a certain type of cargo, for ex. LPG carrier.

Carrier Haulage: Land transport of the shipowner, it refers to when the shipowner will be in charge of the land transport of the commodity until its destination, if so contracted with the shipper or the consignee.

Cartage: Freight, short-distance transport.

CCA: Correction Letter.

C-Commerce - Collaborative Commerce: Union of the concepts of collaboration and electronic trade, allows that the supply chains are synchronized and offer a better service to clients, greater quality, lower inventory and faster deliveries. It refers to the electronic interactions of collaboration among the partners (internal personnel, business partners and clients) by means of the trade community. This community may be an industry, an industrial sector, a supply chain or a part of it.

Chamber of Commerce: Association of importers and exporters with the main objective of developing trade among each other.

Charter: Freightage, rental of ships or airships as per time or travel, through price and conditions established by the Freightage Contract.

Charter by Demise: Freightage of manned ship.

Charter Party: Document used to freight a ship.

Charter Party Bill of Lading: Maritime acknowledgement based on a Charter Party.

Charterer: The one who rents a ship for its use or commercial exploration.

Chassis: Type of wagon with the semi-towage platform to transport a container.

Chemical Tanker: Ship appropriate for the transport of liquid chemical products.

C Hook: Hook to heave and fasten links and pallets.

Clean (on board) Bill of Lading: It refers to such document when no reservation or notation as regards the state of the cargo received on board is found in the same, it being that normally required by importers in credit letters.

Clearance: Release, clearance (customs).

Clip On: Independent refrigeration machinery, used coupled to Conair containers for maintenance of cargoes sensible to temperature.

Collect: Collection, act of debt collection, payment to be made at the cargo destination.

Combi: Type of mixed airship that is applied to the transport of passengers and cargo.

Common Carrier: It refers to a maritime transporter of regular line and so recognized by all other actors in its sector.

Conair: Type of refrigerated container without refrigeration machinery and that may only be used with clip on or on appropriate ships.

Conference - Freight Conference: Association of shipowners who explore regular navigation lines, with the objective of establishing rules and set freight fees equal to each other, for each route in which they operate.

Consignee: The one to whom a commodity is consigned or destined. for ex. the importer.

Consolidation: It refers to the grouping of batches belonging to different shippers to form a single cargo.

Container: Great metallic box or recipient in which a commodity is placed (upholstered or scored), after which the same is closed by seal (sealed) and transported on the cellar and/or deck of a ship to be opened (spawned) at the port or place of destination.

Container Lease Agreement: Term used by container lease companies.

Containerize: Term that expresses the unitization of cargo in container.

Copy not Negotiable: Not negotiable copy, usually from the original Shipment Bill of Landing and which may be negotiated.

Correction Advise: Advise issued by the shipowner to its agent notifying some data alteration in the bill of landing or any other document.

Cross - Docking: Dispatch of commodities received at a warehouse, without having been previously stored.

Customs: Customs, customhouse, office or building of the Internal Revenue Agency at the ports and airports, in charge of inspecting the entry, transit and exit of commodities from the country, as well as to collect derived taxes and to clear ships and airships upon the arrival and exit from ports and airports.

Custom Broker: Person or company in charge of dispatching (disentangle) cargoes before the customhouse, both for import and for export, on behalf of importers and exporters.

Customer-oriented Marketplace: Market oriented to the consumer, this is an open electronic market, in which some clients, such as great companies invite to send offers.

Customer Service: Service to the client, it is the series of activities undertaken to rise the level of consumer satisfaction before, during and after the purchase.

Customer Value: Value for the client, is the difference between the benefits that the client receives from purchased products and the services, and the effort and costs that he must invest to obtain these products.

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