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UniFeeder Container Service A/S - Aarus (ID: 1515)
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The company United Shipping Agencies A/S was established in 1977 in Aarhus and Copenhagen and its main activity is based on short sea traffic in Northern Europe. UniFeeder Container Service A/S is one of the divisions within United Shipping Agencies A/S (UniShip). The UniFeeder Division specialises in container transport between all major North European ports as a feeder carrier and between European countries as an intra-European door/door operator. As a commercial feeder carrier, UniFeeder serves container ports in: Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium, United Kingdom, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Russia, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Intermodal door-to-door transport in containers is carried out between the Nordic countries, the Baltic countries and Russia on the one side - and Germany, Benelux, France, Italy, the United Kingdom and Ireland on the other. European traffic - door-to-door As a separate division within UniFeeder Container Service A/S we have since 1985 offered full load door-to-door transportation in containers all over Europe. The door-to-door service makes full use of a flexible combination of transport by sea, by barge, by rail and by road. Trading areas are most destinations within the countries shown on the map below : Environmentally friendly transport solutions Agents in most European countries Large capacity Full load specialists Just in time transport Operating own vessels Individual customer solutions Performing more than 26,000 transports per year Hague Rules, The A multilateral maritime treaty adopted in 1921 (at The Hague, Netherlands). Standardizes liability of an international carrier under the Ocean B/L. Establishes a legal "floor" for B/L. See COGSA Harbor Master An officer who attends to the berthing, etc., of ships in a harbor. Harmonized System of Codes (HS) An international goods classification system for describing cargo in international trade under a single commodity-coding scheme. Developed under the auspices of the Customs Cooperations Council (CCC), an international Customs organization in Brussels, this code is a hierarchically structured product nomenclature containing approximately 5,000 headings and subheadings. It is organized into 99 chapters arranged in 22 sections. Sections encompass an industry (e.g., Section XI, Textiles and Textile Articles); chapters encompass the various materials and products of the industry (e.g., Chapter 50, Silk; Chapter 55, Manmade Staple Fibers; Chapter 57, Carpets). The basic code contains four-digit headings and six-digit subheadings. Many countries add digits for Customs tariff and statistical purposes. In the United States, duty rates will be the eight-digit level; statistical suffixes will be at the ten-digit level. The Harmonized System (HS) is the current U.S. tariff schedule (TSUSA) for imports and is the basis for the ten-digit Schedule B export code. Hatch The opening in the deck of a vessel; gives access to the cargo hold. HAZ MAT An industry abbreviation for "Hazardous Material." Heavy-Lift Charge A charge made for lifting articles too heavy to be lifted by a ship's normal tackle. High-Density Compression Compression of a flat or standard bale of cotton to approximately 32 pounds per cubic foot. Usually applies to cotton exported or shipped coastwise. Hitchment The marrying of two or more portions of one shipment that originate at different locations, moving under one bill of lading, from one shipper to one consignee. Authority for this service must be granted by tariff publication. See Bill of Lading. Hopper Barge A barge which loads material dumped into it by a dredger and discharges the cargo through the bottom. House-to-House See Door-to-Door. House-to-Pier Cargo loaded into a container by the shipper under shipper's supervision. When the cargo is exported, it is unloaded at the foreign pier destination. Humping The process of connecting a moving rail car with a motionless rail car within a rail classification yard in order to make up a train. The cars move by gravity from an incline or "hump" onto the appropriate track. The terms in this glossary have been carefully selected from the myriad of terms one can encournter in the shipping business. We hope you will find it useful. This information is dissemnated under the sponsorship of the Department of Transportation in the interest of information exchange. The U.S. Government assumes no liability for its contents or use thereof nor does it endorse products. The UniFeeder Division specialises in container transport between all major North European ports as a feeder carrier and between European countries. UniFeeder Container Service A/S - Aarus