Shipping Glossary

Port Facility Security Plan

Port Health Authority

Protection and Indemnity

Protection and Indemnity Club. Protection and Indemnity Association Carrier's mutual liability insurer.

Positioning Instruction Reference Number

Package

Partial Loss

Per metric ton

Promissory Note

Positioning

Place of Acceptance. Where the goods are received for transit and Carrier's liability commences. Now more usually called a POR.

Pilot on Board; or Post Office Box

Port of call

Port of Discharge; or Pay on delivery; or Place of Delivery - where goods are delivered and Carrier's liability ceases. Or Proof of Delivery - A signed receipt acknowledging delivery.

Port of Loading/Place of Loading

Place of Receipt; or Port of refuge (p.o.r.); or Port of Registry.

Per pro. (on behalf of)/Picked ports

Prepaid

Perishable Products Export Control Board

Planned Position Indicator (radar screen)

Parcel size distribution

Pre-shipment inspection

Port side – left side of ship

U.K. Port to Port. U.S. Pier to Pier.

Quality

Quotation (qn.)

Quantity

Query

Rail

Receiver

Running days

Refer to drawer

Running Down clause

Received

Redelivery

Refrigerated Digital Control

Ship fitted with refrigerated cargo installation; Refraction; Reference

Registered (regd)

Required freight rate

Received for shipment

Retained/Railed in bond

Registro Italiano Navale

Road Motor Transport

Release Note. Receipt signed by Customer acknowledging delivery of goods.

Retained on Board/Remaining on Board

Roll On-Roll Off. A ferry type vessel onto which goods and containers can be driven, usually via a ramp.

Rate per Ton

Radio Telephone

Safe arrival; or Subject to approval

U.K. Single Administrative Document. Customs Declaration Form for both import and export cargo.

Southbound

Segregated ballast tanks

Straight Consignment-Automatic Release

Stowage Co-ordination Centre

Suez canal net ton

U.K. Simplified Clearance Procedure. A simplified clearance procedure, under which Exporters of goods not requiring special control may submit an abbreviated Customs pre-entry or an approved commercial document at the time of export and provide the full statistical information after the goods are exported.

Short Delivery; or small damage; or sea damage

Sailed

Summer dead weight

Shipper’s Export Documentation

Shear force; stowage factor

Shipping and Forwarding Agent

Sundays and Holidays excluded

Sundays and Holidays excepted Even if used

Sundays and Holidays excepted unless used

Sunday and Holidays included

Shipment (Shpt.)

Sundays and Holidays included

Shipping

Shipping Instruction/Short interest

Sue and labour

Sailed

Shipping Master

Shipping Note

Ship Operator; Sellers option; Stop order - placed by customs on goods not correctly cleared or required for inspection.

Shipped On Board. Endorsement on a Bill of Lading confirming loading of goods on vessel.

Shipowner's Liability

Safety of life at sea Convention

Save our souls

Steamship

Shipside

U.K. Standard Shipping Note

Said to contain

Standard

Said to weigh

Sailing Vessel

Salt Water

Safe Working Load; Statutory Water Level

Transatlantic Round Voyage

To be nominated/narrowed

Till countermanded; Time Charter

Technical Compatibility Agreement

Time charter hire

Tween deck

Terminal deadline

tons deadweight

Temperature; Temporary

Twenty-foot Equivalent Unit. eg. 1 x 40ft = 2 TEU; 1 x 20ft = 1 TEU.

Tropical fresh water zone load line mark

Terminal Handling Charge. A charge for handling FCLs at ocean terminals. Also known as a Container/Port Service Charge.