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- ebXML
- Electronic Business Extensible Markup Language; a modular suite
of specifications for standardizing XML globally in order to facilitate
trade between organizations regardless of size. The specification
gives businesses a standardized method to exchange XML-based business
messages, conduct trading relationships, communicate data in common
terms, and define and register business processes.
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- EDI
- Electronic Data Interchange; the transfer of data between different
companies using networks, such as the Internet.
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- Edifact
- A European standard organization that defines format of data
communication between trading partners. In the US they have the
ANSI x.12 as its equivalent. CargoSmart uses both forms of standards
to allow and exchange data transfer between computers.
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- Edit (Modify)
- To open a window or execute a command that allows information
to be changed, altered, or adjusted.
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- EFT
- Electronic Funds Transfer.
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- Electronic commerce
- The integration of electronic mail, electronic funds transfer
(EFT), electronic data interchange (EDI), and similar techniques
into a comprehensive, electronic based system encompassing business
functions such as procurement, payment, supply management, transportation,
and facility operations.
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- Electronic signature
- The digital equivalent of a hand-written signature, also known
as a digital signature, and is the most secure and reliable way
of protecting and authenticating e-documents sent electronically
over the Internet. CargoSmart uses electronic signatures to ensure
that electronic documents, such as invoices, are safe from the
moment they are sent to the moment they are viewed, paid, and
finally stored.
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- Electronic customs clearance
number
- A reference number for electronic customs clearance assigned
when the broker or customer files their customs entry.
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- Electronic data processing
(EDP)
- Computer processing of data.
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- Electronic envelope
- Electronic information that binds together a set of transmitted
documents being sent from one sender to one receiver.
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- Element delimiter
- A single-character that follows the segment identifier and separates
each data element in a segment except the last.
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- Emergency contact
- Party whom a carrier may contact during an emergency.
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- Emergency schedule number
- The number assigned to a dangerous commodity based on the IMDG
book. The emergency schedule information consists of descriptions
of special equipment to be carried, emergency procedures, and
actions to be taken in case of emergency for dangerous goods.
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- Encryption
- A process of transforming clear text (data in its original form)
into cipher text (encryption out of a cryptogrpahic algorithum)
for security or privacy.
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- Equipment
offered in interchange
- Equipment offered to another railroad without any movement
from the receiving railroad.
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- ETA
- Estimated time of arrival.
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- ETD
- Estimated time of departure.
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- Evaporation
- A change of state from a liquid to a vapour.
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- Evaporator
- Heat-exchanging device which absorbs waste heat from a cargo
and transfers the heat to a circulating refrigerant. Evaporators
convert low-temperature, low-pressure refrigerant into high-temperature,
low-pressure refrigerant. Evaporator fans improve heat transfer
by circulating air within the container over the evaporator coils
and fins
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- Expiration date
- The final date on which the draft and documents must be presented
to the negotiating, accepting, paying, or issuing bank to effect
payment.
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- Export
- Shipment of goods to a foreign country.
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- Export
declaration
- A government document, completed by the shipper, permitting
designated goods to be shipped out of the country. Also known
as Shipper’s Export Declaration (SED).
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- Export reference
- Customer's internal reference (such as purchase order) to a
booking request.
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- Express B/L
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A special facility granted by a carrier under guarantee
from shipper/consignee to release cargo without presenting
the original bill of lading. Also called Sea
waybill. |
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Non-negotiable bill of lading where there are no hard
copies of originals printed. |
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- E-mail
- Electronic mail.
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