Dockers' Employment Agency for day-labourers until the 1992 law. No longer exists in Dunkirk.
A space in the bottom of the vessel, underneath the holds, which is filled with fuel or water to create ballast or alter the vessel's trim.
Document showing the ownership of the goods entrusted by the shipper to a shipowner. it is issued by the shipowner and enables the consignee to claim the goods from the shipowner.
Placing the mooring lines of a vessel on bollards or dolphins and removing them.
Thick round-headed post installed on a quay for mooring ships.
Standardised platform for intermodal transport.
Distribution of goods upon arrival at destination to different consignees.
Specialist buying or selling goods or negotiating insure, freight rates, securities or other matters on behalf of a principal, in return for an agreed commission; the sales or transactions are negotiated in the principal's name and not his own.
There are several categories of brokers, the main ones being:
- interpreting brokers and shipbrokers (sworn),
- chartering brokers (when acting for the cargo at export, they find the vessel),
- chartering brokers (when acting for the shipowner, they find the cargo),
- ship sale and purchase brokers,
- sworn brokers,
- sworn insurance brokers.
Loading of ship's fuel.
Cost and Freight included in export price, insurance excluded.