Logistics Glossary
Fleet Management
Fleet Management Definition[…]
Forwarder
Forwarders are natural persons who organise the shipment of goods for a customer and concludes a forwarding co[…]
Forwarding Company
A classic forwarding company is a service provider tasked with organising the transport of goods between two locations and all[…]
Free-Flowing Bulk Material (FFBM)
Free-flowing bulk material is a term used in freight transport and refers to goods without a fixed geometrically defined shape[…]
Freight Carrier
The freight carrier (haulier) undertakes to carry out transports for a customer. For this purpose, he concludes a[…]
Freight Centre
In the freight centre, the goods of different forwarders are sorted and grouped based on their destination. Subsequent[…]
Freight Documents
Freight documents are documents and papers of all kinds that accompany goods during the entire transport. They serve t[…]
Freight Exchange
In contrast to the direct awarding of transport orders to forwarders already known to the carrier, a freight exchange serves to[…]
Full Container Load (FCL)
Containers are often used as means of transport in air and sea freight.
FCL refers[…]
Full Load
The term refers to goods that are picked up from a shipper for transport and transported to a receiver without transshipment on[…]
Full Truck Load (FTL)
Full Truck Load is a delivery that fills the entire loading space of the truck. This delivery is sent to a single receiver without tran[…]