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Term of the Road Dictionary

bridge shipment

  • Language : PIARC Road Dictionary / English
  • Theme : Operations Transport General Items
  • Definition : Shipment process during which a carrier receives freight for another carrier and delivers it to a third carrier, thereby dealing directly with neither the shipper nor the consignee [EN 14943].

Verbindungsversand

  • Language : PIARC Road Dictionary / German
  • Theme : Betrieb Transport Allgemeines
  • Definition : Versandprozess, bei dem ein Transporteur die Fracht für einen weiteren Transporteur in Empfang nimmt und sie an einen dritten Transporteur liefert, wobei er weder mit dem Absender noch mit dem Empfänger unmittelbar in Kontakt tritt [EN 14943].

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