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Dockers loading bagged cargo. FOB (free on board) is a term in international commercial law specifying at what point respective obligations, costs, and risk involved in the delivery of goods shift from the seller to the buyer under the Incoterms standard published by the International Chamber of Commerce.
The Dutch word "lading" has exactly the same meaning (freight, cargo, an amount of transportable goods) as it has in the English "bill of lading", but is not restricted to shipping. [16] Under English law, the Carriage of Goods by Sea Act 1992 provides that the term "bill of lading" includes a "received-for-shipment" bill of lading issued by ...
Pope Field (IATA: POB), Fayetteville, North Carolina, U.S., a military air base; Personnel on board, an abbreviation in oil and gas exploration and production and in shipbuilding; Person overboard, a gender-neutral equivalent of the expression "Man overboard" "Pilot on board", by which the time of the pilot's boarding the ship is understood
MLWN – mean low water neaps; MLWS – mean low water springs; mm – millimetre (SI unit) MM – prefix designating a number in millions (thousand-thousand) MMbod – million barrels of oil per day; MMboe – million barrels of oil equivalent; MMboed – million barrels of oil equivalent per day; MMbpd – million barrels per day
When the cargo is being shipped by several different shipping companies on the same vessel, there will usually be separate bills of lading for each company, but only a single consolidated cargo manifest. On the other hand, if the cargo contains dangerous goods, there may be a separate dangerous cargo manifest. A manifest can be exchanged for ...
Although a typical purchase order may not be worded as a contract (in fact most contain little more than a list of the goods or services the buyer desires to purchase, along with price, payment terms, and shipping instructions), the purchase order is a specially regarded instrument regulated by the Uniform Commercial Code or other similar law which establishes a purchase order as a contract by ...
Diagram of floating production storage and offloading unit FPSO OSX #1 at Rio de Janeiro Coast FPSO Mystras at work off the shore of Nigeria FPSO Crystal Ocean moored at the Port of Melbourne The circular FPSO Sevan Voyageur moored at Nymo yard at Eydehavn, Norway FPSO Firenze moored at Hellenic Shipyards, 2007 FPSO (Floating, Production, Storage, Offloading), Welplaathaven, Port of Rotterdam ...
International DTD is a service provided by many international shipping companies and may feature intermodal freight transport using containerized cargo. The quoted price of this service includes all shipping, handling, import and customs duties, making it a hassle-free option for customers to import goods from one jurisdiction to another. This ...