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The term "cost, insurance, freight" or "c.i.f." predates the introduction of Incoterms. Craighall noted in a 1919 article that in "earlier times" the initials were usually written "C. F. & I.": he quotes the phrase "C. F. & I. by steamer to N.Y." used in a shipping contract addressed in the New York State case of Mee v. McNider (1886).
In some sense this reduces the classification of these groups to the classification of p -groups. Some of the small groups that do not have a normal p -complement include: Order 24: The symmetric group S 4. Order 48: The binary octahedral group and the product S4 × Z2. Order 60: The alternating group A 5.
Freight rate. A freight rate (historically and in ship chartering simply freight[ 1]) 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.
Kenya Ports Authority is an investor in Kenya National Shipping Line, a state corporation of Kenya formed in 1989, currently owned by KPA and three non-Kenyan corporate investos. [ 7 ] In 1989, the government of Kenya brought together the operation and regulation of existing ferry services , including the Likoni Ferry service at Likoni, Mombasa ...
The Standard Carrier Alpha Code ( SCAC) is a privately controlled US code used to identify vessel operating common carriers (VOCC). It is typically two to four letters long. The National Motor Freight Traffic Association developed the SCAC code in the 1960s to help road transport companies computerize data and records. [ 1]
Total cost of ownership ( TCO) is a financial estimate intended to help buyers and owners determine the direct and indirect costs of a product or service. It is a management accounting concept that can be used in full cost accounting or even ecological economics where it includes social costs . For manufacturing, as TCO is typically compared ...
Level 3: 272 groups identified by three-digit numerical codes (01.1 to 99.0); Level 4: 615 classes identified by four-digit numerical codes (01.11 to 99.00). The first four digits of the code, which is the first four levels of the classification system, are the same in all European countries. National implementations may introduce additional ...
The iceberg transport cost model is a commonly used, simple economic model of transportation costs. It relates transport costs linearly with distance, and pays these costs by extracting from the arriving volume. The model is attributed to Paul Samuelson 's 1954 article in Deardorffs' Glossary of International Economics. [1]