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- UCP
- Uniform Customs and Practice of Documentary Credit. The "Banker's
Bible" on Documentary Credit Interpretation issued by the ICC.
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- UCP500
- Revised and updated version operating from January 1, 1994.
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- UDDI
- Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration; a Web-based
distributed directory that enables business to list themselves
on the Internet and discover each other, similar to a traditional
phone book's yellow and white pages.
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- UN
- United Nations.
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- UN number
- For dangerous goods, the official identifying number for the
cargo, as registered in the IMDG
database.
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- UNCTAD
- United Nations Conference on Trade and Development.
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- UNCTAD MMO
- UNCTAD Multi Modal Transport Convention.
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- Unique B/L Identifier
- U.S. Customs' standardization four-alpha code unique to each
carrier placed in front of nine digit bill of lading number; APL's
unique bill of lading Identifier is "APLU". Sea-land uses "SEAU".
These prefixes are also used as the container identification.
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- Unit load
- Packages loaded on a pallet in a crate or any other way that
enables them to be handled at one time as a unit.
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- Unitization
- The consolidation of a quantity of individual items into one
large shipping unit for easier handling; Loading one or more large
items of cargo onto a single piece of equipment, such as a pallet.
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- Unprinted
- The status applied to newly uploaded carrier invoices that have
an outstanding balance, and have not been previously printed.
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- User
shipment coverage
- A CargoSmart tool for Administrators to apply restrictions to
the scope of shipments company users view online, e-mail notifications,
and report received.
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- USDA
- United States Department of Agriculture.
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- U.S.M.
- Un-manifested Subsequent Movement. Common practice in Asia-Europe
Trade that bill of lading shows POD
as the end of the shipment while consignee will advise the actual
FND
before or upon vessel arriving the POD.
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