LOGISTICS TERMS
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Air Waybill is a bank commitment that payment will be made upon presentation of documents indicating that the goods and services in question have been performed by an intermediary bank within the given period and in accordance with the specified conditions, in accordance with the agreement made between the buyer and the seller.
Transferring is the process of loading the goods unloaded from the vehicle arriving at the warehouse onto the vehicle that will leave the warehouse without subjecting them to any sorting, etc. processes.
Packing/Box List (Packing List) It is the classification of the materials in stock according to criteria such as turnover rate, quantity, value, etc.
Warehouse is a closed or open secure area where products are placed for a certain period of time, depending on need.
Arbitration
Warehouse Arbitration, arbitrage A warehouse is a warehouse that is operated under a customs administration in accordance with the permission given by the Undersecretariat of Customs, whose owner must be a legal entity or institution, and in which only non-nationalized imported goods and goods for export can be stored.
ATA Carnet is an additional document issued by the competent authorities of member countries within the scope of customs agreements in order to ensure that goods are exempt from customs duties and customs formalities are reduced during the temporary entry of goods into a country.
ATR Movement Certificate is a document issued by the authorized institutions of the exporting country and given to the customs administration in order to ensure that goods originating from or considered to be from Turkey or the European Community, or in free circulation in Turkey or the Community, benefit from the provisions of the Additional Protocol.
B
Unloading is the process of unloading materials from a vehicle such as a train, plane, truck, etc. in an appropriate manner and placing them in a suitable place.
Split Load: Heterogeneous type packaged and partial loads that are not in the form of bulk cargo such as wheat and coal and cannot be placed in containers, can also be defined as general cargo and are handled individually.
C-Ç
CMR Road Transport Document: It is a road transport document. CMR Document is a transport document issued in accordance with the International CMR Agreement for transports by truck.
Tractor: A motor vehicle that is manufactured to pull trailers and semi-trailers and does not carry any load.
D
Storage is the process of storing goods in accordance with the conditions determined for use or shipment.
Bulk Cargo is cargo that is not in a package.
E
Handling is the process of unloading materials in the warehouse, receiving goods, sorting by selecting, delivering-receiving, unpacking, dividing, stacking, placing, changing place, renewing-completing incomplete items, collecting, packaging, loading, etc.
F
FCL Full Container Load
FIATA International Freight Forwarders Association
FIFO is the rule that states that the first material in will be the first out.
Fleet management is the entirety of activities such as selection, routing, loading and tracking of transportation vehicles to be used in the transportation of materials, people and/or services between points within the scope of activity.
FTL Full Truck Load
G
Warranty Certificate: This is a document issued by the ministry for imported products that are subject to after-sales maintenance and repair, and contains the sales and after-sales service commitments of the importing company.
Temporary Acceptance is the process of bringing raw, semi-finished or finished goods from abroad, turning them into semi-finished or finished goods by adding different substances within the country or by carrying out value-added processes (labor, etc.) or not, and sending them abroad again.
Global Guarantee is a guarantee issued to the Customs Directorate where the transaction will be carried out, to be used in more than one transaction, in order to guarantee the rights of the State (in terms of taxes) during customs clearance procedures.
Customs Declaration is the declaration list of goods to be imported or exported, prepared by the company officials or the company's representative customs consultant in accordance with the customs legislation of the relevant countries, after the preparation of the relevant documents regarding the goods that need to be declared to the customs administration under any customs regime.
Customs Consultants are individuals or organizations authorized to follow up on customs transactions on behalf of importers and exporters.
Customs Cashier Receipt is a document showing all kinds of payments made at customs and used in the import of materials.
H
Bill of lading is a document that is used as a receipt in transportation by train. It does not have the characteristics of a negotiable instrument.
I-İ
IATA International Air Transport Association
Incoterms are optional international interpretation rules prepared by the International Chamber of Commerce to prevent different interpretations of commercial terms between countries in international sales.
K
Cabotage is the right to transport passengers and cargo between country ports. It is also used as the right of commercial vehicle drivers to work in other countries in road transport.
Sequential Stocks are successive stocks created for the same product throughout the supply chain to meet customer requirements.
Cargo is the goods or items that are carried.
Value Added Operations are operations such as labeling, packaging, folding, temperature measurement, transfer, mixing, combining, separating, palletizing, light assembly, return operations, destruction, barcode operations, maintenance and repair operations, etc. performed in warehouses upon customer requests.
Clauses are warnings that complement the general conditions of the policy according to the insurance type and indicate the conditions that should be paid particular attention to.
Consolidation is the process of creating large shipments from small quantities of cargo to provide economies of scale in transportation.
Bill of Lading It is a cargo transport document that contains information about the content of the cargo carried. (It is true used as "bill of lading" in daily life.)
Container A large metal crate made according to international standards for transporting various items by sea.
Container Loading is the placing of loads into containers.
Letter of Consignment is the right of the owners of the goods to inspect, take samples and weigh their goods before declaration in order to prepare their declarations.
L
Less Than LCL Container Load
Logistics is the whole of the activities such as purchasing, import, export, storage, handling, stock control, transportation, vehicle-cargo tracking, etc.
M
Return to Origin: Returning imported materials to the country of import in cases where they do not meet the specifications.
Goods Receiving is the process of accepting the materials arriving at the warehouse. The process includes unloading the cargo and taking it to the goods receiving area, comparing the physical information with the recorded information, taking the goods to the warehouse and keeping the records.
Certificate of Origin is a document indicating the place (country) where the material was produced or deemed to have been produced due to the process it underwent.
Multimodal Transportation is the transportation of loads using more than one type of transportation (land, air, sea, rail) sequentially.
Force Majeure is a provision in contracts that states that the parties cannot be held responsible for situations beyond their control (earthquake, flood, war, etc.).
Customer Relationship Management is providing more effective and efficient services to customers through multi-faceted and cross-analysis of customer characteristics and sales and marketing activities.
N
Transport Insurance Insurance that covers damages to goods or transport vehicles during transport.
Transportation is the transportation of goods by land, air, sea or pipeline and with official documents.
Freight is the total amount of fees for the transportation of goods and passengers to be paid on behalf of the carrier.
O-Ö
Order is the document given to the importer so that the material can be cleared from customs after it reaches the final destination.
Private Warehouse is a type of warehouse where a company stores only its own goods.
Summary Declaration is a document showing that the goods to be imported and exported have arrived at customs. Manifests are filled out by carriers according to the goods bill of lading and submitted to the relevant customs.
P
Packaging is the packaging of the material according to the appropriate quantity, security, etc. conditions.
Pallet is a platform used in storage and shipping, made of various materials and on which the goods are placed.
Partial Loads that do not fill the entire transport vehicle.
A policy is a written contract that shows that an insurance contract has been made and the mutual terms of the contract (the rights and obligations of both parties).
R
Reinsurance is the process whereby insurance companies transfer a predetermined portion of the risks they insure to other insurance companies in return for premiums through an agreement (re-insurance).
Ro-Ro is a ship specially built for vehicle and container transportation.
Trailer is a non-motorized vehicle designed to carry people or loads and is pulled by a motor vehicle.
S
Order Management is the process of meeting demands or orders, pricing them, keeping records, controlling stocks, allocating stocks or notifying relevant parties about production/purchasing requirements, tracking orders, and monitoring delivery and collection.
Stock is the material that is stored or kept for future needs.
Stock Control is the determination of orders or needs by monitoring stocks continuously or periodically, in a way that does not cause excess or shortage of stock and in accordance with established rules.
Stock Management is the process of meeting the raw materials, semi-finished products, finished products and auxiliary materials in the most appropriate way in order to meet the definite or potential demands, by paying attention to the marketing, sales, production, supply, financial status of the business and the time, quantity, price and quality criteria.
Supalan is the process of carrying out customs procedures (inspection etc.) on the vehicle in which the customs-bound goods are loaded, without unloading them into the shed or warehouse, and then withdrawing them from the customs-bound area, especially in land and sea transportation. It is applied to food etc. items in refrigerated vehicles whose storage conditions must not be changed.
T
Transportation is the transfer of people and cargo between certain points.
The Transport Waybill is an official document containing information about the goods being transported and the destination address, issued by the vehicle owner.
Carrier is a company that transports someone else's (customer's) goods by land, sea and/or air for a fee.
Procurement is the entirety of the planning, stock control, purchasing, transportation, receiving, and other activities required to procure the necessary machinery, tools, devices, raw materials, materials, parts, semi-finished products, finished products, and services from appropriate suppliers.
Procurement is the entirety of the planning, stock control, purchasing, transportation, receiving, and other activities required to procure the necessary machinery, tools, devices, raw materials, materials, parts, semi-finished products, finished products, and services from appropriate suppliers.
Supplier is a provider of goods and services.
Reverse Logistics is the process of returning goods and/or packaging materials to the supplier after delivery to the customer/customers due to damage, return, rejection, recovery of packaging materials, expiration, obsolescence, disposal, repair, and other reasons.
Receipt is a documented delivery process carried out by the authorized personnel delivering the material and the authorized personnel of the company receiving the material.
TEU Twenty Foot Equivalent, Twenty Foot Container
TIR International Road Transport
Transit Loading is the transfer of cargo from one carrier to another in international transportation. It is usually used in maritime transportation.
U
International Transportation is transportation carried out directly or in transit from one country to another by road, sea, rail and/or air.
Z
Addendum is a document prepared to indicate the changes that occur during the period in which the insurance policy is in force.
