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- Tab
- A UI control that allows you to navigate to different documents or forms or parts of long forms. Primarily used for importing data into a form that is too long or complex to fit clearly a single page or dialog.
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- Tail
- The rear of a container.
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- Taint
- A classification for reefer cargo that can damage a container
or leave a residue requiring attention before the container can
be used for another shipment.
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- Tank container
- A specially constructed container for transporting liquids and
gases in bulk.
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- Tare weight
- The weight of packing material or, in carload shipments, the
weight of the empty freight car.
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- Tariff (TRF)
- A publication setting forth the charges, rates, and rules of
transportation companies.
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- TDCC
- Transportation Data Coordinating Committee.
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- Technical
name
- The proper or complete name description for a dangerous commodity
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- Template(s)
- Templates are partially completed forms that can be saved and managed by general users. Templates are used to populate forms with receptively used data, thus saving the user data entry time.
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- Terminal
- An assigned area in which containers are prepared for loading
into a vessel or are stacked immediately after discharge from
the vessel.
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- Terminal handling charge
- A charge assessed by the terminal for handling FCLs
at ocean terminals.
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- Terminal receiving charge
- Charge assessed by the terminal for cargo being delivered for
export.
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- Text
- Words, sentences, paragraphs. This book, for example, consists of text. Text processing refers to the ability to manipulate words, lines, and pages. Typically, the term text refers to text stored as ASCII codes (that is, without any formatting). Objects that are not text include graphics, numbers (if they're not stored as ASCII characters), and program code.
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- Through rate
- The total rate from the point of origin to final destination.
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- Time charter
- A charter party hiring a vessel for a specified period of time
or a particular voyage, in which the shipowner provides the vessel
and crew while the charterer supplies the cargo. Also known as
non-demise charter.
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- Tips
- Links to additional help documentation that relates to the context of the current dialog or form.
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- To order
- A bill of lading that is negotiable. It is used when a shipper
opens a loan with the bank. The shipment itself may become a security
for the loan, so in effect, the bank owns the cargo being shipped
until the loan is paid. In this case, the bank's name would normally
appear on the consignee field of the bill of lading.
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- Tonnage
- Generally refers to freight handled.
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- Top air delievery
- A system in which supply air from the refrigeration unit evaporator
is introduced into the container at the ceiling level. Little
used in marine reefers, normal mode of air delivery in reefer
trucks.
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- Traffic mode
- A way of describing the relationship of cargo and the containers
in a shipment. The traffic mode can be FCL
(containers in the exclusive use of the customer), LCL
(loose cargo; containers shared between two or more customers),
or FCL+LCL (both containers and loose cargo in a single shipment).
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- Tramp
- A freighter vessel that does not run in any regular line but
takes cargo wherever the shippers desire.
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- Transaction set
- Term used to denote one transaction of an electronic document.
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- Transaction set ID
- An identifier that uniquely identifies the transaction set.
This identifier is the first data element of the transaction set
header segment.
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- Tranship
- To transfer goods from one transportation line to another, or
from one ship to another.
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- Transit cargo
- Goods onboard which upon their arrival at a certain port are
not to be discharged at that port.
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- Transit port
- A port where goods received are merely en route and from which
they have to be transferred and dispatched to their ultimate destination
by coasters, barge and so on. Also called transshipment port
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- Transshipment port
- See Transit
port.
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- Turnaround
- In water transportation, the time it takes between the arrival
of a vessel and its departure.
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- Twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU)
- A 20-foot container. Please also see Container
size.
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