Re: [ubl-tsc] Question about consignments and shipments

["Roberto Cisternino" <roberto@javest.com>]

The "Shipment", when facilitated by an international freight forwarder,
represents the whole end-to-end organization of the goods transport on
behalf of the Shipper.

A Shipment possibly involves one or more Carriers and related transport
contracts (one or more consignments in a single shipment).

The consolidated shipment is a transport optimization organized by the
freight forwarder to ensure a given container is fully loaded (FCL - Full
Container Load). This is to save money but also to provide a more
competitive tariff.

In a single container the freight forwarder can consolidate several
consignments of different Shippers (AKA: grouppage) until the container is
full.

So we have these cases:
a) 1 Shipment - 1 Consignment
b) 1 Shipment - many Consignments (many carriers) of the same Shipper
c) 1 Shipment - many Consignment of different Shippers
(grouppage/consolidated shipment)
d) Splitted shipment (huge shipment) even using different vessels (so
pratically different consignments)

Hope this helps,

Ciao
Roberto

> The slides help a lot -- thanks.  Perhaps we can put some version of
> this in the hubdoc?
>
> I'm still wondering about "consolidated shipment" (Consignment.
> Consolidated_ Shipment. Shipment). Is this one of the shipments shown in
> slide 5, or is this something else that combines a set of shipment
> pieces into a synthetic shipment for some legal purpose?
>
> Jon
>
> Tim McGrath wrote:
>> here is my slides describing the 'split' and 'consolidation' options for
>> shipments and consignments.  we struggled a long time on these
>> definitions and actually got them approved by experts so we have to be
>> careful changing them.
>>
>>
>> On 4/07/12 5:03 AM, Jon Bosak wrote:
>>> Hello TSC,
>>>
>>> I'm in the process of reviewing the definitions in the common library
>>> and am now considering the ABIE "Consignment" (Consignment. Details).
>>> I
>>> note that a consignment (row 284) can contain multiple shipments (under
>>> the name "Consignment. Consolidated_ Shipment. Shipment", row 344), but
>>> I also note that every shipment (row 1672) can contain multiple
>>> consignments (under the name Shipment. Consignment, row 1694). This has
>>> something to do with the notion of consolidation, but I can't figure
>>> out
>>> what.
>>>
>>> Are consignments collections of shipments, or are shipments collections
>>> of consignments?  And what does this have to do with consolidation?
>>>
>>> Jon
>>>
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