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  2. Lift-on/lift-off - Wikipedia

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    Ships with cranes or other cargo handling equipment on-board are also termed geared vessels. As container ships usually have no on-board cranes or other mechanism to load or unload their cargo, they are therefore dependent on dockside container cranes to load and unload. However lift-on/lift-off vessels can load and unload their own cargo ...

  3. Incoterms - Wikipedia

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    The first work published by the ICC on international trade terms was issued in 1923, with the first edition known as Incoterms published in 1936. The Incoterms rules were amended in 1953, [5] 1967, 1976, 1980, 1990, 2000, and 2010, with the ninth version — Incoterms 2020 [6] — having been published on September 10, 2019.

  4. Material handling - Wikipedia

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    Material handling involves short-distance movement within the confines of a building or between a building and a transportation vehicle. [1] It uses a wide range of manual, semi-automated, and automated equipment and includes consideration of the protection, storage, and control of materials throughout their manufacturing, warehousing ...

  5. Supply chain management - Wikipedia

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    Reverse logistics is the process of managing the return of goods and may be considered as an aspect of "aftermarket customer services". [128] Any time money is taken from a company's warranty reserve or service logistics budget, one can speak of a reverse logistics operation.

  6. Freight forwarder - Wikipedia

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    A freight forwarder or forwarding agent is a person or a company who co-ordinates and organizes the movement of shipments on behalf of a shipper (party that arranges an item for shipment) by liaising with carriers (party that transports goods).

  7. Third-party logistics - Wikipedia

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    A fourth party logistics provider has no owned transport assets or warehouse capacity. They have an allocative and integration function within a supply chain with the aim of increasing the efficiency of it. The concept of a fourth-party logistics provider was born in the 1970s by the consulting company Accenture.

  8. TCS (logistics company) - Wikipedia

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    Tranzum Courier Service, commonly known as TCS, is a Pakistani courier and logistics company which is based in Karachi. It was founded as a joint venture with DHL by a former Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight engineer, Khalid Nawaz Awan and his brother Sadiq Awan in 1983.

  9. Logistics - Wikipedia

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    A warehouse in South Jersey, a U.S. East Coast epicenter for logistics and warehouse construction outside Philadelphia, where trucks deliver slabs of granite [1]. Logistics is the part of supply chain management that deals with the efficient forward and reverse flow of goods, services, and related information from the point of origin to the point of consumption according to the needs of customers.