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Logistics Vocabulary

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Logistics Vocabulary

Shipping company – to ship (verb)

Freight - Freight Forwarder - a company that receives and ships goods on behalf of other companies. - An agent. "the freight forwarder chooses whether to ship a consignment by road, by rail, or by sea"

Airfreight- Ocean freight

Carrier - A freight carrier is a company that specializes in shipping, and they directly handle your cargo.

Cargo containers - The price of containers has skyrocketed. There’s been a knock-on effect.

Truck – Lorry – long distance - articulated lorry (2 or more sections)
Petrol, fuel tankers

Trucker / lorry drivers. There is a shortage of lorry drivers in the UK.

Port- Dock workers

Vessel - a ship or large boat. / a hollow container, especially one used to hold liquid, such as a bowl.

Load – Unload – to load up - a load (noun) – a load/loads of something (a load of washing) – ‘take a load off’ (your feet) = sit down

Pallet - The warehouse was full of pallets stacked with boxes.
Fork-lift truck

Inventory - a complete list of items such as property, goods in stock, or the contents of a building. (stock) do a stocktake (UK) / to take inventory (US)
inventories have been run down due to COVID

Customs

Warehouse – staff shortages in UK warehouses due to Brexit.

Supply Chain

Backlog - trabajo atrasado (backlog of work)