Marine Business English Abbreviations

A/W Full Water All Water

ANER Asia North America East Asia Freight Agreement Asia North America EastboundRate

B/L Ocean Bill of Lading Bill of Lading

B/R Buying Rate

BAF Bunker AdjustmentFactor

C&F cost plus sea freight COST AND FREIGHT

CC freight collects Collect

CSC container service fee Container Service Charge

CY Container Yard Container Yard

C/(CNEE) Consignee Consignee

C/O certificate Certificate of Origin

CAF Currency Exchange Surcharge Currency Adjustment Factor

CFS Bulk Storage Container Freight Station

CFS/CFS Bulk Delivery (Start/End)

CHB Customs House Broker

CIF cost, insurance plus sea freight COST, INSURANCE, FRIGHT

CIP Carriage and Insurance Paid To

Com Commodity Commodity

CPT freight paid to destination Carriage Paid To

CTNR Container Container

CY/CY full cabinet delivery (start/end)

D/A Acceptance Document Against Acceptance

D/O Arrival Notice Delivery Order

D/P payment document Document Against Payment

DAF Border Delivery Delivered At Frontier

DDC Destination Port Destination Destination Delivery Charge

Delivered Duty Paid after DDP Delivery

DDU Delivered Duty Unpaid

DEQ Port Delivered Delivered Ex Quay

DES Delivered Ex Ship

Doc# file number Document Number

EPS Equipment Location Surcharges

Ex factory delivery Work/ExFactory

F/F Freight Forward Freight Forwarder

FAF Fuel Surcharge Fuel AdjustmentFactor

FAK Variety Freight All Kind

FAS Shipment Free Alongside Ship

FCA Cargo Carrier Free Carrier

FCL Full Container Load

Feeder Vessel/Lighter Barge Voyage FEU 40' Cabinet Forty-Foot Equivalent Unit 40'

FMC Federal Maritime Commission Federal Maritime Commission

FOB Free On Board

GRI General Rate Increase

H/C Agent Fee Handling Charge

HBL Child Bill of Lading House B/L

I/S Sales Inside Sales

IA Separate Price Independent Action

L/C Letter of Credit

Land Bridge Land Bridge LCL Cabinet Less Than Container Load

M/T size ton (ie goods charge in size) Measurement Ton

MB/L Master Bill of Lading Master Bill Of Loading

MLB Small Land Bridge, Minni Land Bridge from one port to another

Mother Vessel Mainline MTD Multimodal Transport Document Multimodal Transport Document

N/F Notify Notify

NVOCC Non Vessel Carrier Non Vessel OperatingCommon Carrier

O/F Ocean Freight Ocean Freight

OBL Ocean Bill of Lading Ocean (or original) B/L

OCP shippers arrange for transport to inland point Overland Continental Point

OP operation Operation

ORC Local Receipts (Guangdong Province) Origen Recevie Charges

PP Prepaid Prepaid

PCS Port Congestion Surcharge

POD Destination Port Of Destination

POL Shipping Port Of Loading

PSS Peak Season Sucharges

S/(Shpr) shipper Shipper

S/C Sales Contract Sales Contract

S/O Loading Instructions Shipping Order

S/R Selling Rate

S/S Spread Sheet Spread Sheet

SC Service Contract Service Contract

SSL Ship Company Steam Ship Line

TOC Terminal Operations Fees Terminal Operations Option

TRC 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 (Received in Hong Kong) Terminal Handling Charges

TTL Total

TVC/TVR Regular Quota Contract Time Volume Contract/Rate

VOCC Shipping Company Vessel Operating Common Carrier

W/M is weight ton or size ton from high to high Weight or Measurement ton

W/T weight tons (ie, goods charge by weight) Weight Ton

YAS dock surcharge Yard Surcharges