Glossary Terms

A loading order is the order to load a consignment.

In the forwarding business, the main carriage is the section in which many individual shipments are combined by the consolidator to form a consolidated shipment. The consolidated shipment is loaded onto a truck, train, barge, ocean-going vessel or aircraft and transported to the deconsolidator. The main carriage is completed either by a third party carrier

Another special feature on a bordero / cargo manifest are subsequent deliveries of missing packages. This is the subsequent dispatch of packages that were noted on an earlier bordero / cargo manifest but were not actually dispatched, so that they were missing from the receiving forwarder. These subsequent shipments are identified on the bordero /

Piggyback transportation is when a driver loads and carries shipments that he does not deliver himself, but hands off to another driver for delivery along the way. Motivation: A less busy vehicle takes over load at the depot for a fully busy vehicle.

Procurement logistics is the link between the supplier’s distribution logistics and a company’s production logistics. The task of procurement logistics is to provide the company with raw materials, consumables and supplies as well as purchased parts and merchandise according to its needs. In cadis: Orders that are entered in an ordering depot, passed on to

A regional freight carrier/(area) contract freight forwarder is a (main) forwarder who arranges the goods shipments of all suppliers from and in a certain area for his principal (shipper).

Variant of route manifest, which contains the orders of a recipient.

The routing table is used in a multi-stage dispatching process to plan tours in local and long-distance traffic.

The unloading report is, on the one hand, electronic information for the dispatcher and, on the other hand, written documentation of the unloading of vehicles in groupage transport. The latter is part of the carrier’s accompanying documents. The unloading report is necessary so that the dispatcher knows in what condition and at what time the