Shipment Milestones and Phases

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Contents 1 Examples 1.1 Air 1.2 Ocean LCL 1.3 Ocean FCL

Examples

Air

• Export phase
  • {Pick-up or Collection Point} Truck comes to pick up commodities to the "shipper's" origin door in Bayonne, NY, USA.
  • {Departure Point} Truck brings them to Airport of Departure in New York, NY, USA
  • commodities are loaded on the plane
• Import phase
  • {Arrival Point} Airplane brings them to Airport Of Destination Kiev, Ukraine
  • commodities are unloaded from the plane
  • Truck comes to pick up commodities
  • {Delivery Point} Truck brings them to "consignee's" destinantion door in Chernobil, Ukraine

Ocean LCL

Same as air but instead of airports you have ports.

Ocean FCL

I this case one shipment consists of multiple containers that travel together from origin port to destination port.

But there are multiple origin doors (one per container in the most general case) and multiple destination doors (one per container in the most general case)