Shipping and Maritime Terms PDF

Ballast - heavy cargo, which is loaded on against, to inform our revenue officers, what board a vessel or aircraft merely for the. goods are being brought into the country, purpose of making it steady, to enable it to and to provide a safeguard against goods navigate in the ev...

Ballast - heavy cargo, which is loaded on against, to inform our revenue officers, what board a vessel or aircraft merely for the. goods are being brought into the country, purpose of making it steady, to enable it to and to provide a safeguard against goods navigate in the event of scarcity of other being brought into this country on a vessel cargo. When not brought to port as article, and then smuggled ashore. In Maritime ballast of no commercial value may be Law, is a record or statement in writing, discharged upon a permit granted by the carried by a vessel, containing informati9n Collector of Customs for such purpose. with respect to the vessel's cargo, passengers, and other matters required by Berth - the part of the pier/wharf that is statute or regulations. occupied by a vessel, or any place in which a vessel may lie at anchor or at a dock. Carrier - means the person actually transporting goods or in charge of or Bill of Lading - is a transport document for responsible for the operation of the means ocean freight issued by Shipping lines, of transportation. carriers an International Freight Forwarders or Non Vessel Operating Common Carrier. Customs Clearance - means the accomplishment of the customs formalities Bond - an instrument designed chiefly to necessary to allow goods to enter for home guarantee the integrity and honesty of the use, warehousing, transit or transhipment, principal, his ability, financial responsibility or to be exported or placed under another and his compliance with law or contract; a customs procedure. guarantee of performance. It is an agreement whereby one party, called the Coastwise Ports - are such domestic ports surety, obligates itself to a second party, as are open to coastwise trade only. These called the obligee, to answer~ for the include all ports, harbors, and places not default of a third party, called the principal. ports of entry. Break-bulk - non-containerized cargo which Container Freight Station - means is grouped or consolidated for shipment and normally a warehouse or a transit shed broken down or subdivided Into Unitized adjacent to the Container Yard used for Cargo, such as In Pallets, or Packed in sorting and storage of container cargo both Bags or Boxes. for import and export. Bulk - liquid or dry goods shipped in bulk, Containerized Cargo - cargo stuffed inside not packed or bundled in separate units. a container van with the external Include commodities that are loose or in dimensions and ratings enumerated in mass and require to be pumped, shovelled, series 1 of ISO 668-li1976 which are s looped, grabbed or forked during loading specially designated to facilitate ready or unloading. handling particularly their transfer from one mode of transport to another without Cargo Manifest - is a declaration of the intermediate reloading. entire cargo, the object of which is to furnish the customs officers with a list to check Devanning - transfer of cargo from one Non-Vessel Operating Common Carrier container to another container. (NVOCC) - means a person, including an international freight forwarder, providing Discharge Port Survey (DPS) - a report point-to-point international transport of issued by an Accredited Cargo Surveying shipments without operating or owing the Company (ACSC) for Bulk/Break-Bulk means of transport or equipment. An Cargo after the conduct of a survey at the NVOCC deals with the shipper and issues port of discharge. its own transport document (B/L or AWB) even though it commonly subcontracts the Dry-dock - means a dock from which the different stages of transport to vessel, water can be temporarily excluded, in order aircraft, and truck operators. to effect repairs to hulls and keels of ships or vessels. Port of Entry - is a domestic port open to both foreign and coastwise trade. The term Encargo - entrusted shipment of includes principal ports of entry and sub merchandise or articles from abroad. ports of entry. A "principal port of entry is the chief port of entry of the collection district". Foreign Trade - it is the commercial interchange of commodities between Pratique - is a permission granted by different entries; export and import trade. quarantine officials to a vessel or aircraft to It is synonymous with the term "foreign hold intercourse with the port after the ship commerce," which is the trade between or aircraft has complied with port individuals or legal entities in different regulations. countries. Quay - a landing place or pier, usually of Hatch - an opening in a ship's deck through solid construction, where vessels berth to which cargo can be lowered. load or unload cargo. Less Container Load - a container loaded Regular Shipside Permit - required for all with cargoes belonging to more than one cargoes, which belong to the categories of consignee and/or covered by more than one regular shipside cargoes under the existing bill of lading. regulations. Load Port Survey - a report issued by an Saloon Stores - supplies listed as such Accredited Cargo Surveying Company which are intended for sale on board a (ACSC) for Bulk/Break Bulk Cargo to be vessel or aircraft. imported into the Philippines. The report shall be submitted to the Bureau of Sea Stores - articles specially foodstuff, Customs directly from the ACSC in a secure such as food, wine, cigarettes, for use or electronic format. consumption only of the passengers and crew on board the vessel or aircraft upon its Moor - means to secure a vessel alongside voyage. the berth by means of mooring roper. Shifting of Cargoes - transferring of transit/transhipment to another local port or cargoes from vessel to vessel and vessel to to a foreign port. dock, dock to vessel, hatch-to-hatch, and bay-to-bay. Transhipment - means the Customs procedure under which goods are Ship's Stores - consist of spare equipment transferred under Customs control from the such as chains, anchors and the likes, importing means of transport to the necessary for the safe navigation of the exporting means of transport within the area ship. of one Customs office ~which is the office of both importation and exportation. Shipside Permit - authority issued by the Collector of Customs or his/her authorized Vessels - Includes every sort of boat, craft representative for the Customs Inspector or other artificial contrivance used, or assigned to a vessel to allow the discharge capable of being used, as means of of cargoes specified on the permit at transportation on water. shipside unto lighters, under-guard. Special Shipside Permit - when cargoes do not belong to the regular shipside cargoes, the broker and/or consignee has to get the authority from the Collector of Customs prior to the processing and approval by the Entry Processing Division. Stripping - unloading of all goods or cargoes from a container. Stuffing - filing a container with goods or cargoes. Temporary Shipside Permit - is a written authority to discharge cargoes at shipside unto Iighter as per order of the Collector of Customs. Transit - means the Customs procedure under which goods are transported under Customs control from one Customs office to another. Transit Cargo - article arriving at any port from another port or place noted in the carrier's manifest and destined for