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2. Freight rate - Wikipedia

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   A freight rate (historically and in ship chartering simply freight) is a price at which a certain cargo is delivered from one point to another. The price depends on the form of the cargo, the mode of transport (truck, ship, train, aircraft), the weight of the cargo, and the distance to the delivery destination.

3. Worldscale - Wikipedia

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   Worldscale is a unified system of establishing payment of freight rate for a given oil tanker's cargo. Worldscale was established in November 1952 by London Tanker Brokers' Panel on the request of British Petroleum and Shell as an average total cost of shipping oil from one port to another by ship.

4. Dimensional weight - Wikipedia

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   U.S. Domestic: 139 cubic inches per pound (5,000 cm 3 /kg) or 1 ⁄ 5 kg/dm 3 (12 lb/cu ft) (Daily rates only, for packages that exceed one cubic foot / 1,728 cubic inches.) U.S. Domestic: 166 cubic inches per pound (6,000 cm 3 /kg) or 1 ⁄ 6 kg/dm 3 (10 lb/cu ft) (Retail rates only, for all packages.

5. Less-than-truckload shipping - Wikipedia

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   Less-than-truckload shipping or less than load (LTL) is the transportation of an amount of freight sized between individual parcels and full truckloads. Parcel carriers handle small packages and freight that can be broken down into units less than approximately 150 pounds (68 kg). Full truckload carriers move entire semi-trailers. Semi-trailers ...

6. Freightos Baltic Index - Wikipedia

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   The Freightos Baltic Index (FBX) (also sometimes known as the Freightos Baltic Daily Index or Freightos Baltic Global Container Index) is a daily freight container index issued by the Baltic Exchange and Freightos. The index measures global container freight rates by calculating spot rates for 40-foot containers on 12 global tradelanes.

7. Freight transport - Wikipedia

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   Freight transport, also referred as freight forwarding, is the physical process of transporting commodities and merchandise goods and cargo. The term shipping originally referred to transport by sea but in American English , it has been extended to refer to transport by land or air (International English: "carriage") as well.