logistics services, activities involved in transporting, storing, and managing goods, acronym, a shortened form made from the first letters of words, FCL (Full Container Load), a shipment that uses an entire container for one customer, 3PL (Third-Party Logistics), a company that manages logistics services for another business, HGV (Heavy Goods Vehicle), a large truck used for transporting goods, DC (Distribution Centre), a place where goods are received, stored, and sent out, LCL (Less than Container Load), a shipment that shares container space with other shipments, EDI (Electronic Data Interchange), electronic exchange of business documents between companies, VAS (Value-Added Services), extra services offered in logistics, such as packaging or labeling, RFID (Radio Frequency Identification), technology using radio signals to track goods, ISO (International Organization for Standardization), an organization that develops international standards, GPS (Global Positioning System), a satellite system used to identify locations and track vehicles, transshipment, moving goods from one means of transport to another, break-bulk, transporting goods in small, separate units instead of containers, cross-docking, direct transfer of goods from receiving to shipping without storage, order picking, selecting items from stock to prepare customer orders, reverse logistics, movement of returned, damaged, or recycled goods, tracking and tracing, monitoring the location and movement of goods in transit, warehousing, receiving, storing, and managing goods in a warehouse, collection, picking up goods from a specified location, receipt, the act of receiving goods, shipment, a quantity of goods sent from one place to another, stock, goods kept and stored for future use or sale, consignment, a shipment of goods sent to someone, reusable transit equipment, containers or equipment used repeatedly for transporting goods, means of carriage, a method or vehicle used for transportation, warehouse, a building where goods are stored, assembly, the process of putting parts together, location, a particular place or position, receive, to get or accept something, carry, to transport goods from one place to another, equipment, tools or machines used for a specific purpose, provider, a company offering logistics or transport services, shipping lines, companies that transport cargo by sea, fleet of vehicles, a group of vehicles owned or operated by a company, air carriers, airlines that transport cargo or passengers, transport companies, businesses that move goods or people, documentation, official papers related to transport and shipments, freight volume, the amount of cargo transported, container, a large metal box used for transporting goods, competitive rates, prices that are attractive compared to competitors, delivery, the act of transporting goods to a destination, transport mode, the type of transport used, such as air, sea, rail, or road, cargo, goods transported by ship, plane, truck, or train, freight, goods transported in bulk, transit, movement of goods from one place to another, consignments, shipments of goods sent to customers, direct flow, continuous movement without delays or storage, loading, putting goods onto a vehicle, storage, keeping goods in a safe place until needed, transit equipment, tools or containers used during transportation, locating, finding the position of goods or items, tracing, following the movement or route of goods, reusable, able to be used again, distribution, the process of delivering goods to different places, transport network, a system of routes and vehicles used for transportation

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