Term | Description |
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Decanting |
Handling consisting in removing goods from a container. |
Despatch Money |
Premium paid by the ship owner for any time earned in embarkation or disembarkation of a chartered vessel. |
Dock |
Designation of a rectangular water body surrounded by docks for the berthing of ships in the port. |
Docker |
The dockworker is a professional worker specialized in the loading and unloading of goods on board ships. |
Door to door |
Freight Quotation Mode - Intermodal transport from door to door. |
Dredge |
Used to remove muds, vases and gravel from the bottom of the water. |
Duke of Alba |
A bundle of wooden poles, steel tubes of cement blocks anchored in the bottom of ponds or channels, on which a ship may moor or lean. |