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Access channel: The access channel is a natural or an artificial maritime zone which is used as a ship parth, ir order to let the vessel access or depart to/from the Port facilities.

ALL IN ocean freight: A freight that includes all operations such as loading or discharging, stevedoring, trucking until the Terminal transference yard.

Area: A surface which is delimited by a perimeter, destined for determined Port services and facilities.

BASIC ocean freight: It is the cost of maritime transport service from one Port to another. In this rate, there are a few terms which condition the final cost of the freight.

Berth shift: Operation that consists in unmooring the vessel and berth it to another, or shift its position in the same pier.

Bill of Lading: A document that credits the cargo possession and/or property.

Bonded Warehouse: A facility which is employed to store commodities in Bonded Warehouse regime (normally ran by private enterprises).

Breakwater: A very large wall that is built from the coast out into the sea to protect a beach or harbour from the big waves.

C.I.F. (Cost, Insurance & Freight): A trade term which is similar to C&F, even though the seller must, additionally, supply maritime insurance against any harrasement of cargo risk or loss throught its navigation time.

C&F (Cost and Freight): C&F is a trade term in which the seller absorbs all charges consisting in cargo carrying until the negotiated delivery place, however cargo risks or loss or any cost increase, is transferred from the seller to the buyer as long as the cargo has surpassed the ship's rail at the Port of Loading.

Cabotage trade: Consists in cargo which is carried, loaded and discharged within national ports, regardless its origin or destination.

Cargo in Transit: Transit manifested cargo, which preceeds from a foreign country and that is destined to another third country.

Cargo manifest: A document where it is detailed the relationship that register commodities that constitute a mean or a transport unit, and expresses the commercial coordinates of the goods.

Cargo owner: Refers to the natural or legal person that owns the cargo, or the cargo consignee or receiver.

Cargo stripping: Consists in stripping the cargo out of a container which is carrying cargo for one, two or more consignees.

Cargo stuffing: The action of stuffing a container with cargo belonging to one, two or more shippers.

Cargo type: Refers to the cargo description.

Charter Party: It is an agreement in which the Shipping Line delivers the vessel partially or completely to the Charterer, for cargo carrying from one Port to another, or for a period of time in exchange to a sum of money that the Charterer accepts to pay in return. There are two basic alternatives for vessel Chartering: Cession or location, per time or per voyage.

Combinations: According to what was mentioned above, different combinations of stuffing and/or stripping services may be made, as long as it has been previously negotiated between the shipper and the consignee.

Combinations: House / Pier, House / House, Pier / Hourse, Pier / Pier.

Commercial Port Operations: Stevedoring operations, loading, discharging, transshipment and storage of goods, ship spares provision and repairs. Additionally, loading or discharging of passengers or crew members.

Compulsory direct delivery: Consists in transporting a cargo immediately upon discharging to release it out of the Port facility.

Confiscation: Penalty that consists in the permanent keep of the cargo by the national authorities.

Consignee: Natural or legal person in whose name the cargo is manifested, or that acquires the cargo by endorsement action.

Consolidated cargo: A consolidated cargo is a conglomerate of goods that belong to one or several consignees, and that are gathered to be carried in containers from one Port to another, as long as the goods are backed by an unique bill of lading.

Containerized cargo: Cargo which is manifested as being carried into containers.

Contingency: A situation of risk, derived from human activities or natural phenomenons, that may happen and set at risk the integrity of people, of the Port facility and the integrity of one or more environments.

Contract of carriage: It is an agreement in which the "Transporter", generally the Shipping Line, Maritime Agent or Charterer, compromises himself with the cargo owner straightforward, or through a Freight Forwarder, in order to transport the cargo from one Port of Origin to the Port of Destination, against a determined sum of money that responds to the payable ocean freight.

Customer: Natural or legal person that hires the services of a Port Terminal through its representative, in order to request loading or discharging ship or cargo services.

Dangerous goods: Commodities classified as dangerous, for which exist special regulations in respect to their acceptance procedure, packaging, stevedoring, documentation and transport, being local or international transport. There are nine (9) dangerous commodity classes for maritime transport. Its regulations, documentations, acceptance forms, packaging, and stevedoring are established by the International Maritime Organization (IMO).

Deadfreight: Reception and release of the goods out of the Terminal facilities, without materializing the loading activity.

Direct Shipment: Transport of cargo that is made straightforward from particular trucks, to a ship.

Discharging: Reverse loading operation.

Dispatch: Accomplishment of the necessary custom formalities which are required to import and export the goods or destinate them to other legal regimes, operations or custom destinations.

Docking: Operation that consists in driving the ship from the pilot station and dock her to the designated pier.

Door / Door: A service which is rendered from the point of cargo origin, to the exact point of cargo delivery.

Door / Inland CY: Means that the service is rendered from the point of cargo origin, to an Inland Container Yard where the cargo is delivered.

Door / Port: A service from Door to Port, consists in delivering a service from the point of cargo origin, up to the Port of destination.

Door Service: The Shipping Line or the transport company inside the ocean freight value, is responsible of transporting the cargo from the hold defined by the Shipper up to the Port of Loading, and/or from the Port of Discharge, to the hold defined by the Consignee. Additionally, the Line or the transport company is responsible of coordinating the movement of the empty container inside the Port of Loading, as well as the movement of the empty container at destination. Every cost involved in the chain is on account of the Shipping Line/Transporting company.

Draught: The draught is the depth of the vessel structure which is sumerged into the water.

Drop anchors: An operation that consists in driving the vessel to the zone where she may drop anchors.

Export cargo: National or nationalized cargo, loaded with destination to another country.

F.O.B. (Free On Board): Term in which the seller places the commodity onboard of the ship at the Port of Loading which was previously arranged in the goods selling contract. The cargo risk or loss is transferred immediately to the buyer, whenever the cargo has surpassed the ship's rail.

Facilities: Usage, by the Port users, ot the Terminal installations.

FILO terms (Free In, Liner Out): It is the cargo carriage from one Port to another Port, that also comprehends discharging at the Port of destination. Loading charges are on account of the shipper.

FIO / FIOST terms (Free In and Out / Free In and Out Stowage Trimmed): In this scenario, the shipping line only takes account of the cargo carriage from one Port to another Port, and holds himself free of any charge and responsibility for loading, stowing, discharging and trimming activities.

Foreign cargo: Refers to cargo that comes from a foreign country, beneath suspensive or temporary regimes, or with the committment of being perfectioned.

Foreign cargo: Refers to cargo that comes from a foreign country, beneath suspensive or temporary regimes, or with the committment of being perfectioned.

Foreign Commerce Operators: Custom brokers, drivers of authorized bonded warehouses, owners, consignees, and in general any natural or legal person that forwards or benefits by itself or through other party, in operations or custom regimes supported by law.

Free Zone: A part of the national territory in which the custom regime allows the Free Zone to receive cargoes without paying import taxes.

Full Container Load condition (FCL): Cargo is shipped, stowed and counted inside the container, on merchant's account and risk.

Gang: It is a group of stevedores that have the task of loading the cargo onboard of a ship, or discharge it from a ship. Its number will vary, whether it is a gang that manually handles the cargo by means of craftmanship, if it is a gang that employs mechanical equipment for cargo handling, or it may be also attributed to the nature of the operation or the Port general practices.

Goods: Shipment or conglomerate of goods or effects that are loaded and stevedored into a ship, for its carriage from one Port to another.

Goods: Total transported cargo, or total cargo that is going to be transported on a ship.

Handling service: Receiving service, stowing or stacking of cargo within the premises of a Port Terminal, as well as its dispatch or delivery for its release or cargo loading.

High tide: Maximum level of the Sea level rise.

House: Such a condition establishes that the Shipping Line authorizes the user to have the container unit for a given period of time, and afterwards he must return it in empty condition to the depot appointed by the Shipping Line.

IMDG Code: National Maritime Code for Dangerous Goods.

Import cargo: Cargo coming from another country, which is discharged and nationalized to be consumed in the national market.

Indirect discharge: Cargo carriage which is performed from ship to quay for its storage inside Terminal premises.

Indirect Shipment: Transport of cargo that is made from the storage or transference areas of a Terminal, to a ship.

Inland Container Yard Service (ICY): An Inland Container Yard is a place where the transporter receives or delivers the cargo. It may be a rail ramp, or a truck warehouse depending on the place and the transport mean employed.

Inland CY / Door: A service from Inland Container Yard at the place of origin, to the Door at the place of destination.

Inland CY / Inland CY: The service is performed from Inland Container Yard to Inland Container Yard, equally in both points, at origin and at destination.

Inland CY / Port: The service is performed from Inland Container Yard at the point of origin, to the Port of destination.

Intermodal service: A transport service which is made between two points, employing two or more different means of transport, in accordance with the requirements given by the cargo contractor.

Length overall: It refers to the vessel total length as it figures in the Ship's Certificate.

Less Container Load condition (LCL): Cargo is shipped, stower and counted inside the container, on line's account and risk.

LIFO term (Liner In, Free Out): The Shipping Line within her cost equation contemplates the loading charges, stevedoring and cargo carriage from one Port to another. Discharging and unstowing are on account of the consignee.

Liquid bulk: Commodity in liquid status which are loaded or discharged by means of a pipe destined for such propose.

Monitoring: A control process that is used to verify or look forward the accomplishment of a regulation or a disposition.

Mono-Operator scheme: Refers to a Port Operation system in which the cargo handling at the Port quays is performed by only one service company.

Mooring and unmooring: A service which is redendered to the ship in order to tie and then release the vessel ropes to/from the Port harbour.

Multi-Operator scheme: Refers to a Port Operation system in which different companies may render their cargo handling services in the same Port quay.

National cargo: National cargo: A product which was manufactured in the country with national or nationalized raw materials.

National cargo: National cargo: A product which was manufactured in the country with national or nationalized raw materials.

Partitioned cargo: Liquid or solid cargo which is carried packaged or as loose goods.

Pier: A Port infrastructure located at the side of a river, lak or sea, especially employed to load or discharge the cargoes to/from a ship, and also for vehicle circulation.

Pier: The container must not be released out of the Port facilities and must be stripped at the Port pier.

Pilot Station: Maritime area designated by the Port Captaincy in which the vessels may drop anchors at roads, or wait for the Port pilot boarding.

Pilotage: A service that boarding pilots render to the ships, leading the vessel maneuvers on her displacement in or out of the operational Terminal areas.

Port: A conjunction of land, maritime or coastal areas, natural or artificial, that gathers physical and organizational conditions to develop activities where Port services may be rendered.

Port / Door: The service is given from the Port of origin, to the point of physically delivering the cargo.

Port / Inland CY: The service is given from the Port of origin, to the Inland CY at the point of destination.

Port / Port: The service is performed from one Port to another.

Port bonded area: Areas comprehended within the Terminal limits.

Port facilities: Civil engineering works of infrastructure and superstructure built at the Ports, to receive vessel callings, to render Port services or construction and repair of ships.

Port facility: Port intallations set at disposal of the Port users.

Port infrastructure: Comprehends the civil works and mechanical installations, fixed and floating, constructed or placed to facilitate the exchange between means of transport.

Port Operations: It may consist in the entrance, exit, anchor dropping, docking, undocking, mooring, unmooring and permanence of ships in the territorial field of a Port.

Port Operator: An entity or a service company of Port services that develops activities such as loading, discharging, storing, pilotage, towing, stevedoring, container stuffing and/or stripping, land cargo handling, dredging, cargo classifying and logging.

Port Services: Services which are rendered within Port facilities to operate vessel calls, cargo handling from or to a mean of transport, or vice-versa, loading and discharging of passengers or vessel crew members, cargo storage, as well as Port infrastructure employment by their users.

Port structure: Civil engineering works of infrastructure and superstructure built at the Ports to receive vessel callings.

Port Tax: A Port tax is a pacuniary payment that periodically must be done for the economical exploiment of a Port public concession.

Port Terminal: A conjunction of areas in the Port, infrastructure and superstructure placed on them, allowed to render Port services.

Private pier: A private pier is the one that is given to a private natural or legal person, which is exclusive and for economical exploit, to perform loading or discharging services to/from a ship.

Private Port Terminal: Established by a legal person to satisfy its own needs to those of the enterprises of the economic holding it belongs to.

Public Custom Warehouse: A facility which is employed to store commodities of many different depositors.

Roads: Station at the Sea, at short distance from the bay.

RORO Cargo: Passenger or cargo carrying vehicles, as well as rolling equipment destined for agriculture, mining or other activities, that may be transported by its own means.

Service companies: Natural or legal persons that count with an authorization or licence to render Port services.

Ship: Any naval construction destined for sailing. Regardless its class and their integral accessory parts, such as clips, spare parts, ship spares, machineries, instruments and accessories that (without being a part of the basic structure of the ship), are employed on its service while sailing at Sea or at the Port.

Ship spares: Cargo destined for its consumption of passengers and crew members onboard of a ship. Ship spares may be food supplying, or spare parts for the vessel itself for instance.

Shipping company: See Shipping Line.

Shipping Line: Owner and/or Operator that commercially exploits the ship.

Solid bulk cargo: A solid good which is carried without packaging.

Stack: Place the cargo with care one over the other in storage areas.

Stacking: Parcial storage of cargo to be loaded shortly.

Stevedoring: It is the process or action of loading onboard of a ship, effects and goods or commodities to transport them from one Port to another.

Stevedoring: It is the process of stowing cargo in a warehouse, quay or mean of transport.

Stevedoring company: A company that performs stevedoring activities for cargo loading or discharging.

Tare: Deduction of the truck weight in order to determine the net cargo weight.

Tariff rate: An amount of money that is charged for Port infrastructure economical exploit, or because of a service being publicly rendered.

Terminal: An Operating Unit for receiving or deliverying containers or break-bulk cargo.

Terminal for Storage: A primary custom area to render storage services for goods.

Terminal with combined facilities: Operating units that count with quays for berthing ships, and with quays exclusively used for berthing cargo barges.

Terminal with facilities to direct berth: Operating units that count with quays for berthing ships.

Tide: The periodical move of rise and fall of the sea waters, produced by the attraction of the Sun or the Moon.

Tonnage (previously GRT, Gross Registered Tonnage): Refers to the cargo carrying capacity of a ship, which is determined by national and international shipping legislations.

Top tide line: Intersection between the sea border-line with the adjacent beach.

Towing: A service rendered by tug-boats to pull, push, support or assist the ship during her call at the Port.

Transference service: Transport of the cargo, from the ship or from the transit places to the stacking areas of the Terminal, or vice-versa for loading.

Transferred cargo: The term refers to import cargo which is manifested with destination to the Port that the vessel calls, but that afterwards it is transferred again to its Port of Loading or another Port.

Transporter or Transport company: A natural or legal person which is has the capability and is authorized to transport different cargoes inside, from or to Port Terminals.

Transporter or Transport company: A natural or legal person which is in charge of the maritime carriage of the goods through the respective contract of carriage.

Transshipment cargo: Cargo that is manifested as transshipmnet, which preceeds from a foreign country, and that is destined to another country or to another national Port, being carried by a deep sea or a fluvial service.

Undocking: Reverse docking operation.

Unparking vessel from side by side operation: Consists in separating the vessel which was previously parked side by side to another vessel.

User: A natural or legal person that operates or makes use of the Port installations and services that are rendered within Port premises.

Vessel parked side by side: An operation that consists in "parking" one vessel next to another that was already moored, or that has dropped anchor at roads.