Short sea shipping, national or international, which operates along the coasts or between islands. Said of seagoing ships in defined areas, in principle limited to one country. Cabotage is thus distinguished from long-distance navigation and navigation to boundary markings.

Person who ships goods on a ship. A natural or legal person (owning or not owning the goods) who concludes the contract of carriage and, in most cases, delivers the goods to the carrier.

A body of water large enough to allow a ship to turn.

The consignee of ships is the natural or legal person who is entrusted, either permanently or on an occasional basis, to carry out, in the name and on behalf of the Ship owner and / or the shipping carrier, Embarkation at the port of disembarkation of the vessel which is sent to it, that is to say addressed, the operations which the master does not carry out himself. He shall accomplish the formalities required of the master by the port authorities, administrative or otherwise. It shall receive at the port of embarkation the goods to be transported; He delivers them to the port of disembarkation to the person to whom they are addressed. It can therefore be at the same time contractors handling. These two functions may be entrusted either to the same natural or legal person or to two separate persons.