carrier
Definition 1
Communications: Company that offers communication services (usually to a few corporate customers) over land-wire, sea cable, mobile (cellular), point-to-point microwave, and/or satellite systems.
Definition 2
Insurance: Company that underwrites and issues an insurance policy, or is responsible for the administration of a range of insurance policies.
Definition 3
Shipping: Company that transports goods and/or people by air, land, or sea, in its own or chartered vessels or equipment, and is named as the carrier in the contract of carriage.
carrier is in the Data Management, Communications, & Networks, General, Marine, & Life Insurance and Shipping, Transport, & Travel subjects.
carrier appears in the definitions of the following terms:
Hague rules,
bill of lading (B/L),
stuffing of a container,
short form bill of lading (B/L),
foul bill of lading (B/L),
Hamburg rules,
booking,
shipping tariff,
no show,
multimodal bill of lading (B/L)
and
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