Effective	21DEC2010
Filed	21DEC2010
Filing Codes	IC

CARGO N.O.S. - Means cargo (articles) not otherwise more
  specifically described in or provided for in this tariff.
    
CARRIER - Means MITSUI-SOKO CO., LTD.
    
CAUTION - means articles which may be subject to Rule
   No. 16 of Tariff.
    
CONSIGNOR, CONSIGNEE or SHIPPER - The terms Consignor,
  Consignee or Shipper INCLUDES all authorized
  representatives or agents of such Consignor, Consignee
  or Shipper.
    
CONTAINER - an item of equipment (including transportation
  tanks), as defined by the International Standards
  Organization and the United States of America Standards
  Institute.
   
CONTAINER FREIGHT STATION (CFS) -
  A) At Loading Ports/Points - The location designated by
     the carrier where the carrier will receive cargo to be
     packed into containers by the carrier, or his agent.
    
  B) At Destination Ports/Points - the location designated
     by the carrier for the delivery of containerized cargo
     to be unpacked from said containers.
    
CONTAINER YARD - The term "Container Yard" (CY) means the
  location where carrier receives or delivers cargo in
  containers.
    
DELIVERY SERVICE - The term Delivery Service means the
  service performed or provided by the Carrier in
  transporting and delivering cargo to a platform,
  sidewalk, doorway, or shipping room directly accessible
  to an over-the-road vehicle at Consignee's premises.
  Delivery Service does NOT include the delivery of cargo
  to basements, floors or interior areas not directly
  accessible to over-the-road vehicles, NOR does it
  include unpacking, erecting, inspection of property or
  any other such similar services.
   
DOOR DELIVERY - Carrier performs delivery to a location
  specified by the shipper/consignee within a port/point.
     
DROP OFF or DROP AND PULL or DROP & PICK - means
  Carrier's desingated Trucker will deliver and leave an
  empty or loaded container at Shipper's or Consignee's
  premises for loading or unloading and then return later
  to pickup the loaded or empty container to return that
  container to the designated Container Yard or Rail Ramp.
    
DRY CARGO - means Cargo other than that requiring temperature control.
     
IN-GUAGE - The term In-Guage when used to restrict
  Flad-Bed, Flat-Rack, Open Top or Platform
  Container/Trailer Rates means that the cargo loaded on
  such equipment does NOT hang over any portion of the
  sides or ends of the Container/Trailer, and further that
  no part of the cargo is greater than 8 ft. 6 ins. high.
    
KNOCKED DOWN - (K.D.) means that an article must be taken
  apart, folded or telescoped in such a manner as to reduce
  its bulk at least 33-1/3 percent from its normal shipping
  cubage when set up or assembled.
    
LOADING or UNLOADING - means the physical placing of cargo
  into or the physical removal of Cargo from Carrier's
  Containers.
    
MIXED SHIPMENT - means a shipment consisting of articles
  described in and rated under two or more items of this
  tariff.
   
ONE COMMODITY - means any or all of the articles described
  in any one rate item in this tariff.
     
OUT-OF-GUAGE - The term Out-of-Guage when used to
  restrict Flad-Bed, Flat-Rack, Open Top or Platform
  Container/Trailer Rates means that in some manner the
  cargo loaded on such equipment either hangs over a
  portion of the sides or ends of the Container/Trailer,
  or that a part of the cargo is greater than 8ft. 6ins.
  high. (Such shipment may be SBJ to applicable Extra
  Length, Height or Width Charges.)
          
PACKING - covers the actual placing of cargo into the
  container as well as the proper stowage and securing
  thereof with the container.
     
PROJECT CARGO - The term Project Cargo means cargo that
  includes materials, equipment and supplies employed in
  the construction, developement or supply of a named
  facility used for a major governmental, charitable,
  manufacturing, resource exploration/exploitation, public
  utility or public service purpose, including disaster
  relief projects.  No materials, equipment or supplies
  covered under a Project Cargo Rate named in this Tariff
  shall be transported for the purpose of resale or other
  commercial distribution.
     
  A clause reading substantially as follows shall appear
  on all B/Ls pertaining to project rates:
      " All materials included in this B/L are of a wholly
        proprietary nature and shall not be resold or
        otherwise commercially distributed at
        destination."
     
PROPORTIONAL - The term Proportional, when used in
  connection with a Rate, Rule, Charge, Provision or
  Accessorial Charge, means a provision whose application
  is restricted to shipments of cargo having an immediate
  prior or immediate subsequent movement, via any
  transportation mode, from or to a named port, point or
  location group.  The term immediate as used herein means
  either: that no other thru or line haul transportation
  service, other than the transportation service from the
  specified origin, occurs prior to Carrier's receipt of
  cargo at origin; or that no other thru or line haul
  transportation service, other than the transportation
  service to the specified destination, occurs subsequent
  to Carrier's tendering cargo to on-carrier at
  destination.
   
RAIL RAMP [See "R" Service Rule 2.1] - The term Rail
  Ramp means the Trailer-On-Flat-Car (TOFC) or
  Container-On-Flat-Car (COFC) facility or terminal of a
  rail carrier where loaded or empty containers are
  tendered to, received from or interchanged with rail
  carriers.
     
RECONSIGNMENT - The term Reconsignment means any change
  in the original B/L instructions, made after cargo has
  been tendered to the Carrier, requiring delivery of
  cargo to a different Consignee, at a different address
  or to a different destination, which requires Carrier to
  perform or provide additional transportation service to
  effect delivery of cargo at ultimate destination, or
  that requires an amendment to, or the reissue of, the
  B/L or other shipping documents prior to delivery at
  ultimate destination.
     
REVENUE TON - means 1,000 kilos or 1 cubic metre as
  freight charges are assessed.
     
SHIPMENT - means a quantity of goods, tendered by one
  consignor on one Bill of Lading at one origin at one
  time in one or more Containers for one consignee at one
  destination.
     
STUFFING - UNSTUFFING - means the physical placing of cargo
  into or the physical removal of cargo from carrier's
  containers.
     
SWORN MEASURER - Association officially certified at the
  country of origin to issue "Sworn Measurer's Certificate"
  thereby certifying description of goods, condition, count,
  weight and volume of cargo at the time of delivery to the
  carrier for movement.
    
VOID, VOID SPACE, or CONTAINER VOID - when used
  in a TLI named in this Tariff, shall be defined as a
  vessel's on-board container space that is required to
  remain empty next to or above a flatrack, platform or
  opentop container laden with out-of-gauge cargo that
  could otherwise be utilized to transport a container.

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