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GLOSSARY

A glossary of widely used words in the logistics industry. Delve into the
background and meaning of these terms.

The return trip of a commercial truck that is transporting freight back from the current destination to its point of origin

A large volume of both structured and unstructured data that cannot be analyzed with traditional data mining techniques

A legal document issued by a carrier to a shipper as a contract of carriage of goods

A scheduled sailing that has been cancelled by a carrier or shipping line so a vessel skips certain ports or even the entire route

A shipping arrangement in which the identity of the sender is concealed from the recipient.

A decentralized, distributed ledger of information shared digitally through a peer-to-peer network