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- Accept
- To verify, confirm, or agree with.
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- ACH
- Activated Clearing House.
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- Active bill of lading
- A bill of lading for which a shipment has not been delivered or a payment has not been received in full.
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- Active shipments
- Shipments for which carrier cargo has not been delivered or payments have not been received.
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- Actual placement
- The car has been placed on the patron's siding and is subject to demurrage charges.
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- Add
- To open a window or launch a command that allows new information to be included or appended.
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- Administrator
- A CargoSmart User (CargoSmart User Account) with Administrator only permissions. This user manages the relationship between the company and the CargoSmart system by managing the company's general user accounts and the company's subscriptions to various CargoSmart products and services.
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- Advanced ETA
- Advanced estimated time of arrival of equipment at either an interchange point ot final rail destination.
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- Agent
- A person authorized to transact business for and in the name
of another person or company.
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- Also notify party
- A second notify party to whom carrier sends its arrival notice advising of goods coming forward for delivery.
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- ANSI
- American National Standards Institute.
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- ANSI standard
- A document published by ANSI that has been approved through
the consensus process of public announcement and review. Each
such standard must have been developed by an ANSI committee and
must be revisited by the committee within 5 years for updating.
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- Application server (appserver)
- A program that handles all application operations between users and an organization's backend business applications or databases. Application servers are typically used for complex transaction-based applications. To support high-end needs, an application server has to have built-in redundancy, monitors for high-availability, high-performance distributed application services, and support for complex database access.
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- Application service provider (ASP)
- Application Service Providers are third-party entities that manage and distribute software-based services and solutions to customers across a wide area network from a central data center.
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- Arrival at an in-transit yard
- Equipment has arrived at an in-transit railroad location other
than the destination.
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- Arrival at destination
- Arrival at the final railroad yard/intermodal ramp shown on waybill.
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- Arrival at an in-transit yard
- Equipment has arrived at an in-transit railroad location other
than the destination.
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- Association (Customer-Carrier Association)
- A relationship between a company and a Carrier to allow the exchange of data through CargoSmart.
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- Awkward cargo
- Cargo of an irregular shape or size or weight that cannot be
transported in a standard container. Transport requires special
equipment, such as a flat-rack container, open top container,
or platform.
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