(code word, euphemistic) Casualties for transportation in the Soviet and modern Russian military. In official use, cargo 200 refers to bodies contained in zinc-lined coffins, but in a military context it may be used for dead bodies as they are transported from the battlefield.
(uncountable, Incoterm) Initialism of cost and freight. [(Incoterm) A scheme whereby the seller pays for transportation to the port of loading, cost and freight, and the buyer pays for the insurance and the rest of the transportation]
(Incoterm) A scheme whereby the seller pays for transportation to the port of loading, cost and freight, and the buyer pays for the insurance and the rest of the transportation
Alternative spelling of dead freight [A sum of money paid by a person who charters a whole vessel but fails to make out a full cargo. The payment is made for the unoccupied capacity.]
(chiefly transport) Scrap material, often wood, used to fill spaces to prevent the shifting of more valuable items during transport, or underneath large or heavy items to raise them slightly above the ground, in order to protect from chafing and wet.
(transitive) To carry or transport over a contracted body of water, as a river or strait, in a boat or other floating conveyance plying between opposite shores.
(shipping) Goods that are stowed in a ship in individually counted units and recorded on different bills of lading, and distinct from bulk cargo or cargo in containers; now largely superseded by containerisation of goods.
(nautical) Alternative form of parcelling [(nautical) One of the long, narrow slips of canvas daubed with tar and wound about a rope like a bandage, before it is served; used also in mousing on the stays, etc.]
(nautical, historical) A permission granted by the customs department to take cargo or ballast on board before the old cargo is out, in order to steady the ship.
(military) In naval control of shipping, a cargo which is not immediately required by the consignee country, but will be needed later.
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