MULTIMODAL TRANSPORT

It´s the one that uses at least two ways of transport under a single contract and an only responsibility. In Colombia it is prevailed by Article 987 of the Code of Comercio.

DOCUMENT OF MULTIMODAL TRANSPORT He is the one that is demanded to send the operator of multimodal transport, according to decree 242/91, letter d) and according to the article 1°. Of decición 331 of the meeting in the Agreement of Cartagena.

OPERATOR OF MULTIMODAL TRANSPORT She is the natural person or legal who celebrates a contract of multimodal transport and he commits himself to his total execution before user (C. of Co. Art. 987.inc.2; Decree 2402 of 1 991 Art. 14 ordinal b) and Decree 1136/92).

COMBINED TRANSPORT Difference of the multimodal one essentially in which an only responsibility the user does not exist in front of and this can be driven against one anyone of the transporters (Art. 985 of the C. of Co Is seen.)

EFFECTIVE TRANSPORTER She is the natural person or legal whom it executes or position is made execute everything or leaves from the contracted passage. (Art. 14 Ordinal cs). Decree 2402 of 1991).

TRANSPORT OF LOAD IN CONTAINERS

FULL CONTAINER LOAD (FCL) It means that the container is filled by the user with its own load. The transporter receives the full container and sealed and it does not take responsibility by the amount. Quality and content. (Shipper¨s load, weight and count, said to contain, sees definitions in chapter 7).

LESS THAN CONTAINER LOAD (LCL) It means that the container is filled by the transporter or his agent with one or several shipments, protected by different knowledge from boarding, for diverse adressees or consignataries. The costs relative to the use of the container are on behalf of the transporter.

SHIP¨S CONVENIENCE It means that the container is filled by the transporter for its own convenience and to cost of this one. The load is received loose and it is given loose.

THE CONTAINER IN ITS MODALITY OF USE It implies that the obligation of the transporter is the one to lead the container from a port to another port and that when the container is filled by the shipper, the transporter does not take responsibility by amount, quality, nor contained.

PIER TO PIER: (Soft to Wharf) It means that the container is filled by the transporter in the wharf of the port of origin and drained by this one in the wharf of the port of destination. The load includes the drained filling costs and of the container.

PIER TO HOUSE: (Soft to Warehouse) It means that the container is filled by the transporter in the wharf of the Port of prevail and lead by the transporter until the wharf of the destiny place, where is given to the consignatary so that it drains it in his warehouse.

HOUSE TO HOUSE: (Warehouse to Warehouse) It means that the container is filled by the dispatcher in its warehouse and drained by the consignatary in its warehouse. The transporter receives and gives a full, sealed and closed container. N or takes responsibility by amount, quality, nor contained.

HOUSE TO PIER: (Warehouse to Wharf) It means that the container is filled by the dispatcher in its warehouse and drained by the transporter in the wharf of the Port of destination. The transporter receives the full container in the origin port and gives the loose load in the port of destination. One does not take responsibility by amount, quality, nor contained.

DOOR TO HOUSE: (Door to Warehouse) It means that the drained filling and of the container is on behalf of the dispatcher consignatary. The transporter commits itself to lead the container in he himself state and condition in which it received it from the warehouse of the dispatcher to the unloading port, in where it gathers the even consignatary to take it to it and to drain it in his final destiny. The transporter is not responsible for quality, amount, nor contained. This modality also can be of transport.

THE CONTAINER IN ITS MODALITY OF TRANSPORT: It implies that the obligation of the transporter is the one to lead the container from a port to another one and that when this is filled by the shipper, the transporter does not take responsibility by amount, quality, nor contained. Difference of the use modality (“house”), as far as which the shipping company on behalf of the user contracts the terrestrial transport until the final destiny.

DOOR TO DOOR: (Door Door) It means that the containers filled by the dispatcher in his warehouse of the origin place and is drained by the consignatary in his warehouse of the destiny place. The obligation of the transporter is limited to lead the contendor from a port to another one in the same conditions in which it received it and it is not responsible for amount, quality, nor contained. The drained filling costs and of the container assume the shipper consignatary. The transporter carries out the transport under a same contract.

HOUSE TO DOOR: (Warehouse to Door) It means that the container is filled by the dispatcher in its warehouse and drained by the consignatary in the destiny place. The drained filling costs and assume the dispatcher consignatary. The transporter assumes the responsibility to transport the container from the port of embarkation to the port of unloading in the same conditions in which it received it and it is not responsible for amount, quality, nor contained. The drained filling costs and assume the dispatcher consignatary. This modality also is of use, inasmuch as the container gives the shipper to it in the wharf.

PIER TO DOOR: (Soft to Door) It means that the transporting one fills the container in the origin port and leads it until the final destiny to be drained by consignatario.

DOOR TO PIER: (Door to Wharf) It means that the container is filled by the dispatcher in its warehouse in where the transporter takes it and it leads it until the port of destination, the empty thing and gives the loose load to the consignatary. The transporter does not take responsibility by amount, quality, nor contained.

EXPRESSIONS APPLICABLE TO CONTAINERS

BAR CODES: even bar codes to identify merchandise.

BAY: (Bay). It means a set of columns of containers.

BRIDGE: (Mancorna). Element of horizontal lashing to unite two containers.

CONAIR: cooled container that requires connection for cooling.

CONTAINER FREIGHT STATION: (CFS) (Yard of Consolidation). It is the estate specialized in the filling and drained of containers. The costs of mobilization of the container from the patio to the wharf and from the wharf to the patio are on behalf of the transporter.

CONTAINER YARD: (CY). (Yard of Containers). It is the place in where the containers are received and given.

FOLDING CONTAINER: type of container with two walls or panels, later frontal and, that is folding to facilitate their transport.

DIESSEL GENE SETH: Generating unit of energy for cooled container when railroad or highway is mobilized by.

DFI: (Physical Distribution the International). Set of required operations to transfer merchandise from a site of production in a country, to a site of consumption in the market of final destiny in a foreign country.

DOUBLE STACK TRAIN: Double wagon of apt railroad to take two containers; one upon another one.

DROP OFF CHARGE: cost of giving back a container to its proprietor.

FEU: (Fourty Foot Equivalent Unit). It means a container equivalent to forty feet.

FLAT RACK: platform container.

GATE: access or door of a marine terminal. In containers it is used for the collection by the handling, control, entrance and exit of the container.

HIGH CUBE: container a foot upper than the standard.

ISO: (Standard International organization): it regulates the measures of the packings and materials.

LOGISTIC: science and art of distribution of materials and products.

MINI LAND BRIDGE: system of multimodal terrestrial transport. The United States corresponds to the mobilization of load from the port from Los Angeles to the ports of the Gulf.

OPEN TOP: container of open ceiling.

PICK UP CHARGE: cost that pays to the proprietor when taking in leasing a container.

PIGGYBACK: apt platform of railroad to take to tows or containers.

POWER BACK: integral unit to generate energy in earth.

PLUG: plug to connect a cooled container.

REEFER CONTAINER: Cooled container.

ROAD RAILER: Tow of highway that rises the railroad.

ROW: (Row). It means a row of containers in horizontal direction.

RUBBER TYRED GANTRY: Crane with rubber rims.

SEAL: (Seal). It is an element of security and nonre-usable identification that is placed in the door of the container. I number of identification slogan in the Knowledge of Boarding. The seal serves to assure the load against sackings and to avoid the contraband and it only can be opened by a competent authority or the consignatary. When an authority with customs aims puts a seal in the cont4enedor is called seal.

TO PAVE BOX: Connect of two containers; one takes to the load and the other the ventilation and cools the load by means of the air circulation with a ventilator that works with solar energy.

SPREADER: Mechanical equipment to load and to unload containers; it can be fixed or retractable.

STRADDLE CARRIER: Machinery for the handling and piling up of full and empty containers.

SWAP BODY: (Movable Van). Container of 24 feet (7,15 xs 2,50) and an open side (they open side).

STOT: (Cell). Space that occupies a container of a ship.

STACK: (Column). It means a set of containers in vertical form.

TEU: (Twenty Foot Equivalent Unit). It means a container equivalent to twenty feet.

TIER: (Line). It means a set of containers placed in row.

TANK TAINER: Container tank.

TRAILER: Wagon of load.

TRAILER BIMODAL: Tow that is used for highway and railroad.

TRILOCK: System of three mini 6,73 containers of ton. In a single

TEU. TWIST LOCK: Element of lashing for containers.