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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. Time charter equivalent - Wikipedia

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    The time charter equivalent (TCE) rate is a standard shipping industry performance measure used primarily to compare period-to-period changes in a shipping company's performance despite changes in the mix of charter types (i.e., spot charters, time charters and bareboat charters) under which the vessels may be employed between the periods.

  4. Dimensional weight - Wikipedia

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    Imperial shipping factor examples: 139 in 3 /lb <=> 12 lb/ft 3; 166 in 3 /lb <=> 10.4 lb/ft 3 - common for IATA shipments; 194 in 3 /lb <=> 8.9 lb/ft 3 - common for domestic shipments; 216 in 3 /lb <=> 8.0 lb/ft 3; 225 in 3 /lb <=> 7.7 lb/ft 3; 250 in 3 /lb <=> 6.9 lb/ft 3; Metric shipping factor examples: 5000 cm 3 /kg <=> 200 kg/m 3; 6000 cm ...

  5. National Motor Freight Classification - Wikipedia

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    The National Motor Freight Classification (NMFC) is a North American voluntary standard that provides a comparison of commodities moving in interstate, intrastate and international commerce via freight shipment.

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  7. 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.

  8. Tonnage - Wikipedia

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    Tonnage is a measure of the capacity of a ship, and is commonly used to assess fees on commercial shipping. The term derives from the taxation paid on tuns or casks of wine. In modern maritime usage, "tonnage" specifically refers to a calculation of the volume or cargo volume of a ship.

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    Today’s highest savings rates are at FDIC-insured digital banks and accounts offering yields of up to 5.55% APY with a minimum $500 opening deposit at My Banking Direct and Western Alliance and ...

  10. List of countries by tariff rate - Wikipedia

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    Tariff rates (percentage) Country/Territory/Region/Group UNCTAD WTO WB; Import tariff rates on non-agricultural and non-fuel products (%) Year MFN - Trade weighted average duty (%) Year Tariff rate, applied, weighted mean, all products (%) Year Aruba: 10.8: 2021: 12.12: 2019 Afghanistan: 6.5: 2018: 6: 2018: 5.63: 2018 Angola: 8.4: 2021: 8: 2022 ...

  11. Cost of living 2024: How to calculate and compare - AOL

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    You would need to make around $20,000 more, $80,925, to maintain the same lifestyle in Chicago, which has a 34.88 percent higher cost of living. However, if you were moving from Joplin to, say, St ...