The provisions of the "European Agreement concerning the Transport of Dangerous Goods by Road"

German Freight Forwarders' Standard Terms and Conditions

Must be handed in for every export of goods to a country outside the EU from an invoice value of € 1,000

Advance notice of a goods receipt

Business-to-business: Inter-company trade

Business-to-consumer: Trade in products and services between businesses and consumers

Process of purchasing goods: Transport of material to the receiving warehouse or to production.

Efficient management of stocks with the aim of maintaining or increasing delivery service

The CMR regulates the contract of carriage in international road transport. The international consignment note is also called CMR.

Type of goods handling in order to optimise transport processes. By means of pre-packing, goods can be delivered without storage/removal from storage.

Electronic data interchange

A distribution warehouse that is set up between the producer and the customer as a buffer to ensure rapid delivery.

Non-exchangeable loading means made of wood or plastic

Emission standards defined by the European Commission that establish limit values for the emission of air pollutants from motor vehicles.

Exchangeable wooden means of loading with dimensions of 1.20m x 0.8m x 0.16m and a base area of 0.96m²

Full container load: One full container load, ready for shipment

First in - First out: Warehouse organization that ensures that the goods stored first are removed from storage first.

A carrier is an entrepreneur who carries out the commercial transport of goods on land, inland waterways or by aircraft.

Full truckload: Freight traffic in which a single load is carried on the transport vehicle.

Also "long truck"; a truck combination longer than 18.75 metres with a loading volume of 157m³ and 56 euro pallet bays.

Exchangeable means of loading made of a steel frame construction with dimensions of 1.24m x 0.835m x 0.97m and a net weight of around 85 kg.

A central main transshipment facility required for handling general cargo traffic. Cf. hub-and-spoke system.

International Commercial Terms: Incoterms are used to regulate the transfer of risk of a shipment and its transport costs between sender and recipient.

Enables organizations and organizational units to have their environmental management system certified since 1996.

Defines the minimum requirements for a quality management system that an organization must comply with in order to meet customer expectations and official requirements.

Just-in-sequence: Required goods are delivered exactly at the time and in the order in which they are needed.

Just-in-time: Required goods that are delivered "exactly at the right time", i.e. exactly when they are needed in production.

Compilation of goods to be taken out of storage according to the customer's requirements.

The quantity of goods that is collected from a consignor for a shipment and transported directly on a means of transport without transhipment to a recipient.

Customer-oriented and order-related combination of storage units into a final overall unit.

Long-term business model in the logistics industry. The logistics and system service providers offer their customers cooperation across a broad spectrum of logistics tasks.

Corresponds to 1 metre of the loading space of a truck in length. One euro-pallet (1,20m x 0,80m) corresponds to 0.4 loading meters.

Less-than-container load: General cargo from different consignors is loaded into a container and transported to the port of departure. At the port of destination, the individual shipments are loaded onto different connections and delivered to the respective consignee.

Last in - First out: Warehouse organization that ensures that the goods last stored are first removed from storage.

Less than truckload: Transport quantity that does not represent a full truck load and can be transported with other partial quantities on the same transport vehicle.

Special semi-trailer design with the dimensions (inside) of 13.60 × 2.48 × 3.00m; thus 34 pallet bays are available.

Proof of delivery

Transported goods which are packaged or connected to a loading unit in such a dimensional stability that they can be handled as a single transport unit during transport.

Service company that plans, organizes and controls the flow of goods and information.

Transported goods which are packaged or connected to a loading unit in such a dimensional stability that they can be handled as a single transport unit during transport.

Also referred as "curtainsider". A form of a semi-trailer equipped with side sliding tarpaulins, movable stanchions and horizontally inserted support slats.

Transport quantity that does not represent a full truck load and can be transported with other partial quantities on the same transport vehicle.

Twenty-foot equivalent unit

Printout of shipment tracking; information on where goods are at a given time.

Additional services that go beyond the transport and storage of the goods, e.g. notification before delivery or collection, goods inspection, packaging or order picking.