clause

en-verb

clause (third-person singular simple present clauses, present participle clausing, simple past and past participle claused)

clauses (present singular third-person)
clausing (participle present)
claused (participle past)
claused (past)

From Middle English clause, claus, borrowed from Old French clause, from Medieval Latin clausa (Latin diminutive clausula (“close, end; a clause, close of a period”)), from Latin clausus, past participle of claudere (“to shut, close”). See close, its doublet.

The question of clausing the bills of lading, so as to avoid "dirtying", which impairs its negotiability, may also be looked into

1970, Asian-African Legal Consultative Committee, Report of the session, number 11:

Any attempt to clause a Bill of Lading will be strenuously resisted by shippers, and they will obtain clean bills in the usual ways

1978, Samir Mankabady, The Hamburg rules on the carriage of goods by sea, page 215:

It was held that the bills of lading presented were in this case 'clean' as they contained no reservations by way of endorsement, clausing or otherwise to suggest that the goods were defective

1990, Alan Mitchelhill, Bills of lading: law and practice:

There is little authority in English law dealing with the liability of a carrier who unnecessarily clauses a bill of lading.

2004, Martin Dockra with Katherine Reece Thomas, Cases & materials on the carriage of goods by sea, page 104:

(transitive, shipping) To amend (a bill of lading or similar document).


count

From Middle English counten, borrowed from Anglo-Norman conter, from Old French conter (“add up; tell a story”), from Latin computō (“I compute”). In this sense, displaced native Old English tellan, whence Modern English tell. Doublet of compute.

der

(shipping, marketing) Used to show the amount of like items in a package.


roll

en-verb

roll (third-person singular simple present rolls, present participle rolling, simple past and past participle rolled)

rolls (present singular third-person)
rolling (participle present)
rolled (participle past)
rolled (past)

From Middle English rollen, partly from Old French roller, roler, röeler, röoler, from Medieval Latin rotulāre (“to roll; to revolve”), from Latin rotula (“a little wheel”), diminutive of rota (“a wheel”); partly from Anglo-Latin rollāre, from the same ultimate source.

rol

to cause something to revolve by turning over and over

rol

to move, or cause to be moved, upon rollers or small wheels

Containers will be rolled to another mother vessel.

(intransitive, shipping) To load ocean freight cargo onto a vessel other than the one it was meant to sail on.


U-boat

(shipping) A narrow utility cart with tall handles on both ends that is used to carry loads of retail products to be sold, so named because its shape is roughly that of a capital U.


NOIBN

(shipping) Initialism of not otherwise indexed by name.


bill of lading

But all the while Captain Amos Brown was telling whackers that would have done credit to Baron Munchausen, he was really thinking of how he was to save those whose passage to a port not named in any bills of lading looked almost certain.

1908, Morley Roberts, “The Captain of the Ullswater”, in The Blue Peter:

(shipping) A document issued by a carrier (e.g. master of a ship or the ship owner's agent) to a shipper listing a ship's cargo, acknowledging receipt of said cargo, and specifying terms for its delivery.


c/o

1976-1977, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
Sunday I penned my letter, Monday I mailed it c/o the high school.

Anna c/o Bob ― Anna at Bob's address

Send your mail to me c/o Mr. John Smith.

“But he sent it to you, didn't he?” “No, he sent it to himself c/o me.”

(shipping) Abbreviation of care of, used to identify an intermediary who is responsible for transferring a piece of mail between the postal system and the final addressee.

p

(abbreviation) identifies intermediary in delivering mail — see also care of


c/o

certificate of origin
certificate of origin#English

(shipping) Initialism of certificate of origin, a document describing a product's country of origin.


inducement

en-noun

inducement (countable and uncountable, plural inducements)

(shipping) The act of placing a port on a vessel's itinerary because the volume of cargo offered at that port justifies the cost of routing the vessel.


demurrage

demurrage (countable and uncountable, plural demurrages)

despatch

antonym(s) of “detention of a ship, or fee paid for it”

1640s, from Old French demorage, from demorer (English demur), from Latin dēmorārī (“to tarry”).
By surface analysis, demur (“delay”) + -age, with doubled ‘r’ to clarify pronunciation and avoid ambiguity with demure.

surf

(shipping) the detention of a ship or other freight vehicle, during delayed loading or unloading

surestarie

detention of a freight vehicle during delayed loading or unloading


consolidator

(shipping) a business which groups different orders into one shipment.


trimmer

Trimmers are used to stow the coal in the vessel, and, in the case of vessels with awkwardly-situated cargo spaces, a great deal of trimming may be involved. Vessels specially constructed for coal carrying have very wide hatches, and these may be easy trimmers, that is, need only a minimum of trimmers or self trimmers which require only the final cover of coal over each hold to be levelled down by trimmers. Trimmers are employed by the shipowners and they are paid tonnage rates.

1945 January and February, T. F. Cameron, “Dock Working”, in Railway Magazine, page 11:

(shipping, historical) A person employed to rearrange the coal in the hold of a vessel, so that it fills the vessel without forming a conical blockage.


pan-pan

From French panne (“breakdown”), reduplicated.

It should be a relatively simple matter (particularly on a modern yacht) to teach almost anyone to heave-to, take the position from an electronic navigator, then make a PAN-PAN call on the radio (see below).

1996, John Mellor, Handling Troubles Afloat, page 179:

You can use the same outline for Pan Pan calls.

2005, Bob Armstrong, Getting Started in Powerboating, page 170:

If you transmit a Pan-Pan call, then find that you no longer require assistance, you must cancel the message.

2006, Elbert S. Maloney, Chapman Piloting & Seamanship, page 411:

(aviation, shipping) A radio call indicating a minor emergency requiring some assistance, or priority in handling, but not endangering the safety of the vessel or those aboard.


BIC

en-noun

BIC (countable and uncountable, plural BICs)

(shipping) Initialism of Bureau International des Containers (the International Container Bureau)


cloff

(historical, shipping) An allowance of two pounds in every three hundredweight after the tare and tret are subtracted; now used only in a general sense, of small deductions from the original weight.


suttle

(shipping) The weight of a commodity shipment after deduction of the weight of the container, before allowance of tret.


tret

From Old French traire, from Latin trahēre.

(obsolete, shipping) An allowance to purchasers, for waste or refuse matter, of four pounds on every 104 pounds of suttle weight, or weight after the tare is deducted.


hatchwork

The sailors must be familiar with the cargo and hatchwork.

(uncountable, shipping) The apparatus around the hatches of a vessel, particularly the cargo hatch


IMDG

(shipping) Initialism of International Maritime Dangerous Goods (code): a code designed to standardize safety of dangerous goods being transported by sea.


slip sheet

(shipping) A strong, thin pallet-sized sheet of plastic or fiberboard used to transport heavy items.


hitchment

(shipping) The marrying of two or more portions of one shipment that originate at different locations, moving under one bill of lading, from one shipper to one consignee.


NVOCC

(shipping) Initialism of non-vessel-operating common carrier.


shipping company

shipping company (plural shipping companies)

Steamship arrivals, however, are less predictable and the best arrangements of shipping companies and the railway operating department may be upset by weather and tide.

1962 April, J. N. Faulkner, “Summer Saturday at Waterloo”, in Modern Railways, page 264:

(business, shipping) A company whose main line of business is ownership and operation of ships.


dwell time

dwell time (usually uncountable, plural dwell times)

The length of time that a thing or person remains in a given state.

(shipping) The amount of time a container is sitting onshore before being loaded onto trucks.


waterage

(shipping, transport) A fee for transporting goods by water.


unballasted

Then, as if the clouds had discharged their aqueous cargo and rode light as unballasted ships, they lifted in aerial fleets and sailed away, white in a blue sky.

1922, Bertrand W. Sinclair, The Hidden Places:

(shipping) Not loaded or stabilised with ballast.


slushbreaker

(Canada, derogatory, shipping) an icebreaker with poor icebreaking capabilities, unable to operate year-round in Arctic or polar conditions


deadleg

Companies can transport on a nationwide basis but usually only carry their products out and have a deadleg on the return trip, e.g., the sugar distributors.

1984, Gavin Grant Maasdorp, Transport Policies and Economic Development in Southern Africa:

Our convoy appeared as a huge centipede, winding its way uphill that had acquired various deadlegs at random.

2001, Andrew Gurr, A Little Piece of England, page 79:

(shipping) A vehicle that is traveling on a leg of its route in which it does not carry any cargo.


tramp trade

(shipping) The commercial activity of a tramp steamer.


overlanded

Overlanded cargo may be further defined as cargo which has been discharged at a port for which it was not intended according to the ship's manifest.

2014, Peter Brodie, Commercial Shipping Handbook, third edition, Routledge, →ISBN, page 280:

(shipping, of cargo) Exceeding the originally declared shipped quantity.


container port

(shipping) A port which specialises in handling the loading and unloading of shipping containers onto and from container ships.


sea link

However, when Britain left the European Union, ferries started to ply a direct sea link from Ireland, to save hauliers from custom's bureaucracy of driving via Britain.

2021 December 29, Philip Haigh, “Rail's role in unifying Great Britain and Northern Ireland”, in RAIL, number 947, page 25:

(shipping) A regular connection between two (or more) ports, such as that provided by a ferry service.


MARPOL

(shipping, international law) The International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships.


general cargo

general cargo (countable and uncountable, plural general cargoes or general cargos)

general cargoes (plural)
general cargos (plural)

So far as general cargo is concerned, the quay equipment has to be decided in the light of the kind of cargo to be dealt with. […] Almost all modern cranes are electrically operated and a quick-acting type of 30 cwt. capacity is suitable for general cargo, but not powerful enough to operate grabs for discharge of bulk cargoes.

(shipping) Goods that are stowed in a ship in individually counted units and recorded on different bills of lading, and distinct from bulk cargo or cargo in containers; now largely superseded by containerisation of goods.


out of gauge

(shipping) Of cargo: that cannot be loaded in a standard dry container due to its excessive dimensions or weight.


HHG

(shipping) Initialism of household goods.


book of lading

(shipping) A book that records the details of carried cargoes.


time trade

(business, shipping) The request of a shipper to exchange a batched shipment with another shipper.


handling time

handling time (countable and uncountable, plural handling times)

(business, shipping) The total number of business days from the moment one receives payment for an item and the moment when the package is processed or scanned at a shipping carrier.


storage time

storage time (countable and uncountable, plural storage times)

(business, shipping)The total amount of time that a product spends in materials storage, in inventory that is in-process, or in an inventory of finished goods.