Vocabulary
A B C D E F G H I J L M N O P Q R S T U W
| Absenting wagons | Empty wagons, which did not arrive to a station (balancing tasks – railway’s steps instructing to move freight wagons surplus to deficit ones) as instructed by the wagon dispatcher). |
| Accident during dangerous waste loading and transporting | Extraordinary event caused by a human factor, technical faults or natural disaster, causing environment deterioratio. |
| Accompanied combined transport (RO-LA) |
It is a transport of a complete road vehicle accompanied by a driver or crew, using another mode of transport (e.g. ferry or train). |
| Accompanied transport |
Transport of road vehicles accompanied by crew using another mode of transport (e.g. ferry or train). |
| ACTS (Abroll-Container-Transport-System) | System of abroll container transport (loading and unloading also possible with no use of devices specialized for vertical transshipment). |
| Additional letter | A form issued by a forwarder or carrier’s employee, if there is not enough room in a consignment note to fill in appropriate information. |
| Advance note | A preliminary report submitted by authorized carrier’s employee on wagon shunting for loading or unloading at an unoccupied station. |
| Agent | A legal entity, individual running its business under the trade license or individual authorized by the forwarder to perform handing over, taking over or other activities on behalf of other entities. Agent is the one authorizing another entity. |
| Amendment of Carriage Contract | Act amending an original content of the contract based on a written proposal or order of consignor, consignee or agent. |
| Arrival station | Station providing services at the destination place. |
| ARVO | Association of railway vehicles owners |
| Authorized employee | Employee skilled and qualified to perform activity related to goods transport by the railway (e.g. transport store manager, wagon disposal agent, dispatcher, etc.). |
| AVV | General Contract of USE for Wagons. |
| Basic infrastructure of combined transport terminals | Basic infrastructure of combined transport terminalis a summary of specialized devices of stabile and mobile technical base inevitable for ensuring the basic functions, i.e. especially transshipment and reserve rails, apposition edge, internal road network, gate – entry and exit place for road traffic means of transport, parking lots, stand-off and storage areas, stabile and mobile transshipment devices, loading platforms, terminal intermodal loading unit handlers, administration building, as well as facilities of transfer and information technology necessary for development of combined transport terminal information and management system. |
| BD-CIT | Database of CIT members. |
| Block train in inland transport | Train consisting of wagon consignments loaded at one sending station sent by one consignor to one destination station for one consignee. |
| Block train in international transport | Export – train is transported from one sending station sent by one consignor, and is transported through one border crossing station. Import – the train is transported from one border crossing station to one destination station, for one consignee. |
| BoL | Ban on loading |
| Broad gauge | Distance between the inner sides of rails is 1520 mm. |
| Carriage Note | Document confirming a transport contract conclusion (consignment note, dispatch note for transport of empty special wagons when empty rented wagons are transported). |
| Carriage Obstacle | An event disabling initiation of consignment transport or transport continuity to the destination station due to the forwarder’s fault, measures taken by state administration bodies and prosecution authorities, failures of track operation, natural disasters or other reasons. |
| Carrier | Transportation entrepreneur that transports a product or service using its facilities, and offers its services to the general public, one of transport relations member. He enters the market offering transport services. |
| Carrier’s Business Hours | It is usually time from 6.00 AM - 6.00 PM when the carrier provides its services to customers. The carrier announces it on a notice-board at the station. |
| Carrier - Železničná spoločnosť Cargo Slovakia, a.s. (ZSSK CARGO) | Railway transporting and conveyance company, performing transporting, traffic and trade activities related to the transportation of goods and objects. |
| Certification | Set of activities beginning with preparation for certification audit and finished by issuance of a certificate of qualit |
| Certification audit | Audit carried out by an independent accredited company verifying compliance of quality management system of a tested company with requirements resulting from ISO 9000:2000 standard. |
| Certificate of quality ISO | Abbreviation for "International Standard Organization". Main output of the organization for standardization are internationally accepted ISO quality certificates approving quality of products and services. Each company holding such a certificate is ranged among exclusive companies providing customers with high-quality services and products. |
| CIM | Uniform rules for the contract on international rail carriage of goods. |
| CIM (GLV-CIM) consignment note guideline | CIT document containing regulations for consignment note utilization; this guideline is available at web site www.cit-rail.org. |
| CIT | International Rail Transport Committee, union established in compliance with Swiss law and legal personality based in Bern. Its task is the uniform application and practical implementation of the intergovernmental Convention concerning International Carriage by Rail COTIF. |
| CLUR | Common loading and unloading rail. |
| Combined transport | Intermodal transport where the major part of the journey is by rail, inland waterways or sea or air, and any initial and/or final legs carried out by road are as short as possible. |
| Combined transport freight unit | A combined transport freight unit is ISO container, swap body, manipulatable road semi-trailer, roll container or other freight unit, which is regularly initiated into turn round and under the applicable technical regulations; it is controlled pursuant to specific regulations, duly registered and labeled by a registered number. |
| Combined transport freight unit | A container, swap body, dual semi-trailer, road vehicle (combined transport freight unit = UTI + Ro-La transport). |
| Combined transport infrastructure | A set of all equipments necessary for complex provision of a combined transport. It is a stationary and mobile technical base of combined transport terminals, including handling and lifting equipments, buildings and facilities purposed for additional functions of terminals, and basic kinds of conveyances traffic routes used for the combined transport. |
| Combined transport terminal | A reserved area where the transport mode is changed during handling with freight combined transport units. It contains a storage area, includes devices utilized for loading, empting, cleaning and maintenance of freight combined transport units. |
| Combined transport operator | It is a trading company arranging transport of freight units by combined transport in cooperation with consignors and carriers, from consignor to consignee in an uninterrupted transport chain. The operator takes all trading and other steps to support it. In other matters, such company can act as a sender not a carrier. |
| Common loading and unloading rail | Loading and unloading rail at the station for purposes of forwarder loading handling |
| Commercial code | Law no. 513/1991 Collection of laws as amended |
| Contract on siding services | Subject of the contract is rights and obligations resulting from provision of the siding services at a particular siding. |
| Consignment acceptance and issue | Confirmation of consignment acceptance for transport and consignment issue after the transport in a consignment note |
| Consignee | Legal entity, individual making business under a trade license or individual who is the consignment designated for. |
| Container | A combined transport freight unit of a prism shape, standardized size and construction, allowing its horizontal and vertical movement, as well as layer stacking. |
| Consignment destruction | Sale or destruction of uncollected or undeliverable consignment. |
| COTIF | Convention concerning International Carriage by Rail. |
| CTM-CIT | CIT guideline for freight transport. |
| CUV | Uniform rules for the use of the wagons of all wagon keepers in international freight traffic. |
| Consignment | Goods (things or set of things) collected by carrier to be transported from a consignor |
| Consignment note | A form of a specific design and size used as a document for concluding contract for transport of wagon consignment. It is issued by carrier and sold at a set price. |
| Contract of carriage | Contract of goods transport concluded between the carrier and the sender to provide paid transport and trading services. |
| Cover Documents | All documents and papers accompanying a consignment to destination station are enclosed to the consignment note. They are entered into the consignment note by the consignor responsible for data correctness. It includes e.g. health certificate for animals, goods quality declaration, etc. |
| CTC-CIM | General transport conditions for international railway freight transport developed and recommended by the CIT committee. |
| Customer |
A legal entity or individual negotiating carriage and tariff conditions with a carrier |
| Customer (related to services provided by safety advisors) | A common name for a consignor and consignee of dangerous goods consignments under the Contract of safety advisors services. |
| Departure station | Station providing services at a place of take over. |
| Delivery obstacle | It is an event, which disables consignment to be handed over to the consignee in a destination station due to consignee’s rejection, impossibility to reach consignee or other reasons. |
| Displaced wagons | Operative empty wagons, temporarily out of use. |
| Dangerous waste | Odpad, ktorý svojimi vlastnosťami (napr. toxicitou, infekčnosťou, dráždivosťou, karcinogénnymi vlastnosťami) je alebo môže byť nebezpečný pre zdravie obyvateľstva alebo pre životné prostredie. |
| Dangerous goods | Goods accepted and transported under the specific transport conditions. |
| Driving railway vehicle | Route vehicle able to produce tractive and braking force to move or brake route vehicles, eventually designated for transport of people, animals and objects. |
| Destination station | Station listed in the transport document where the carrier obliged to transport the consignment to. |
| Directed wagons | Wagons moved as instructed by a wagon dispatcher. |
| DIUM | Unified kilometer chart for international rail transport of goods. |
| Delivery deadline | A determined or agreed period, within which a carrier is obliged to transport and prepare a consignment for owner to be received. |
| Egalized package | Package used for packing of goods of the same kind and with the same gross weight. |
| EPP | European palette partnership. |
| ESD/EDV | Electronic data processing /Elektonischer Datenverarbeitung. |
| European Railway System | European Railway System is composed of railway routes located on the territory of the EU-member countries, appointed as a part of European traffic network by a decision of the European Parliament and European Council, built eventually modernized for high-speed railway traffic, for conventional or combined railway conveyance, for route vehicles operated on these routes and freight transport junctions including combined transport terminals. |
| EVD/EDI | Electronic data swapping/Elektronischer Datenaustasch. |
| ESTY | Eastern Slovak Transshipment Yards |
| Executive carrier | Carrier, which made no forwarding contract with the consignor, however it was appointed by the carrier to perform partial or complete transport by rail under the letter b). . |
| FEU | Forty-foot Equivalent Unit. Standardized transport unit belonging to line 1 ISO containers size of 40´ (12.2 m), used for transportation flow and capacity measurements as a statistic unit. 40´ standardized container is equivalent to 2 TEU. |
| Freight unit | Goods forming certain individual whole (e.g. parcel, bundle, paletted goods, small container, ...). |
| Forwarder | Overall term for sender and consignee. |
| Freightage | Freight rate and additional fees. |
| FTC | Freight transport center |
| GLV-CIM | A guideline to CIM consignment note; CIT document shows instructions for consignment note utilization. |
| GLV-CUV | CUV wagon document guideline. |
| GVD | Train traffic time schedule. |
| Group of wagons | A group of 5 or more wagons loaded with the same kind of cargo at one sending station from one consignor intended for one consignee in one destination station, and they are sent under one consignment note. List of wagons is attached to consignment note. |
| HCC | Harmonized commodity code – it is used for goods coding in railway transport. It arose from harmonized nomenclature and coding system of goods of Customs Collaboration Council, which is the fundamental base. |
| Handling track | Railway tracks for vehicle handling, i.e. classificatory, hauling, mending, antiseptic, handing over, loading and unloading tracks. |
| Handling freight train | Train designated for intermediate stations and platforms operation. |
| IBC | Large container for in bulk loaded materials. |
| Intermodal transport | The movement of goods using one and the same loading unit of a combined transport without handling its content during transportation. It also involves a combined transport. |
| Intermodal transport unit - UTI | Containers, semi-trailers, swap bodies suitable for intermodal transport. |
| IOU | Internal organization unit |
| Incoming wagons | Empty wagons coming into the station as instructed by a wagon dispatcher. |
| Infrastructure manager | Infrastructure manager is a person who provides, on behalf of the infrastructure owner, operation, maintenance, construction, or infrastructure operation utilizing own capacities or means if necessary, or assistance of third party. |
| Just in time | Logistic method based on transport in a required time period, to a required place and in a required quality. |
| Junction operation | It is a set of traffic activities, which provide the siding service and mutual exchange of wagons. |
| K | KK |
| Light mechanism | Equipments designed for simple goods handling. |
| LIF | General list of border points including data about eventual constraints. |
| Logistic train | Preferred train of ZSSK CARGO for customers using “just in time” logistic method. |
| Lifters | They are powered industrial trucks used for transshipment of containers among individual means of transport. |
| Local wagon | Each loaded or empty wagon used for handling within station area. |
| Loading platform | A place with side track, which is operated by trains, usually without leaving route track. |
| Letter of attorney | Document, under which forwarder authorizes an attorney to perform a certain activities with consignment. The forwarder’s signature has to be officially certified. |
| Land combined transport | Transport of one and the same combined transport freight unit by railway and land communication. |
| Locomotive | Driving vehicle designated to move, pull or push rail vehicles; it has no payload capacity or modification for transport of cargo and people. |
| LO-LO (LIFT ON - LIFT OFF) Technology | Vertical technology for freight combined transport units handling using lifting devices. |
| MEGC | More elements gas container. |
| MŽVS | International direct unified goods railway- waterway transport agreement. |
| Mending wagons | Wagons out of operation due to their necessary maintenance |
| Means of transport | Set of mobile means (ferry, car, plane, train, etc.), by which the transport realized. It is a mobile part of technical base of the conveyance. |
| New register | Acceptance of arrived goods for the next transport under a written proposal of consignee agreed with carrier, in the same wagon, with new consignment note, into new destination station, even if the forwarder has unloaded or enclosed a part of cargo. |
| Notice board | Carrier’s notices, which are placed on publicly available places at the station to inform forwarders about transport matters |
| OPS (RTA) | Regional transport administration |
| OVS (PTT) | Public trade tender |
| Overload | Weight of goods, by which a loading limit stated on wagon, is exceeded. |
| Principal | Forwarder represented in a legal action under the full powers, which specifies a scope of authorizations. |
| Perishable goods | Goods quickly amenable to deterioration; requiring specific protection from cold and hot conditions during their transportation. |
| Product validation | Activity, which confirms and proves compliance of the product requirements with product operation (real or simulated). If the product cannot be verified the product validation is carried out. |
| Product verification | Product is examined by reviewing and testing to confirm compliance with specific product requirements (e.g. via alternative calculations or tests or transferring, comparing the new product specification proposal with the specification of a similar already checked proposal or document reviewing before their release, etc.) |
| Private wagon | Wagon belonging to the owner of the private wagon, or wagon available to lessee for a temporary utilization under a specific contract, which is integrated into rolling stock of the carrier marked by owner’s name (name of lessee) and by “P” mark in a frame. |
| Platform | A stable device of hard surface allowing movement of machines for loading, unloading and transshipment of means of transport. They are usually situated close to warehouses. |
| Package | Transport package in line with the Slovak Technical Standard protecting the contents from loss or damage during the transport, it facilitates consignment manipulation, excludes menace of people, damage of other consignments and operation means of carrier. |
| Palette | A transport tool of set size modified for stacking and lifting manipulation of the cargo loaded on it. |
| Peage transport | Inland transport, part of which is conveyed on a foreign territory. |
| Payer | Person or legal entity paying freightage and transportation expenses. |
| PNM | Exceeded loading volume |
| Pump over | Reloading of liquid cargo from one tank wagon into another (e.g. gauge transfer). |
| Preliminary shunting | It is shunting of ordered empty wagons on the siding before scheduled loading on siding |
| Quality objectives | Desired results in compliance with Quality Policy with the aim of permanent quality improvement. Quality objectives must have following features: clearly specified, feasible, measurable and time-limited. |
| Quality plan | Quality plan or quality management system plan is a document specifying which instructions and related resources must be utilized, who and when they must be used for a specific product, process or agreement. |
| Quality management system | Quality management system (QMS), in compliance with ISO 9001:2000 standard, is a systematic management of organization in order to achieve permanent improvement of organization activities, customer satisfaction and involved parties, while meeting the requirements specified in this international regulation. |
| Quality management | It is a coordinated activity aimed at organization management with respect to quality. |
| Quality | Quality is a rate, which is applied to a group of specific characteristics meeting appropriate requirements. Requirements are needs and expectations, which are setup or assumed and they are obligatory. |
| Quality management System Documentation | It is a set of requirements, processes, documents agreed and managed by organization in compliance with ISO 9001:2000 standard. The Documentation of Quality management system stands for Quality Policy, Quality objectives, Quality Guideline – with the highest priority, as well as internal documents and technological procedures. |
| Redirection letter | Form designated for sending of redundant consignment separated from a carriage document. |
| Railway route | Traffic route appointed for movement of traffic vehicles, including fixed devices necessary for movement of traffic vehicles, safety and continuity on the route. |
| Route vehicle | Means of transport designed for transport of people, animals and objects, and for route construction and maintenance-related activities or traffic operation on the route moving on the route. |
| Ribband | Device allowing vertical manipulation of swap body or road semi-trailer by a crane. |
| Reviewed weight survey | Re-examination of consignment weight data accuracy stated by consignor. |
| Railways Law | Railways Act of the Slovak National Council No. 164/1996, Coll. as amended in Small Business Act No. 455/1991 Coll. (trade license law) as amended. |
| RO-LA (Rollende – Landstrasse) Technology | Transport – forwarding technology of road vehicles, using special railway low-floor wagons with technology of horizontal transshipment along the whole length of wagon. |
| RID | Rules for international railway carriage of dangerous goods |
| RIV | Convention on mutual utilization of cargo carriages |
| RO-RO (Roll on - Roll off)) |
Transport of road vehicles sets on flat inland ships or specific oversea vessels. |
| Road train | A truck coupled to a trailer (trailer set), or a semi trailer truck with a semi-trailer (semi-trailer set). |
| Railways | Railway route used for public railway traffic. |
| RFR | A special right of utilization defined by the International Monetary Fund |
| Reposition | Shunting of empty wagons from railway track to the siding as requested by ZSSK CARGO and agreed by a private siding owner at a time when the wagons were not ordered for loading on the siding. |
| Stanchion | Component of low-sided and flat wagons. Providing a side support to goods loaded on the wagon. |
| Standard gauge | A distance between inner parts of rails of railway track is 1435 mm |
| Siding operation | It is shunting or removal of wagons from railway to a set place, at an agreed time, onto the siding and vice versa (traffic service). More runs are possible relating to one siding operation. |
| Sender/consignor | A company, individual making business under a trade license or individual concluding a contract of goods and objects transported by carrier. |
| Spare transport document | A document replacing a missing consignment note. |
| Semi-trailer | A non-powered vehicle intended to be coupled to a motor vehicle in such a way that a part of its weight and load is borne by the motor vehicle. |
| Sheet | A transport tool protecting some kinds of goods transported in open wagon or for other purposes. |
| Safety advisor | ZSSK CARGO employee holding a certificate of safety advisor for transportation of dangerous goods training granted pursuant to the EU directives 1996/35/EU and 2000/18/EU. |
| Seal | A barrier to secure goods in wagons, intermodal transport units and open wagons cover by a sheet to avoid taking out or enclosing goods without a visible damage of the seal and consignment during the transport. |
| Siding user | Under these business terms and conditions the entity utilizing the siding to meet its own needs, i.e. it is a sender or consignee of consignments directed on or from the siding. Under these business conditions, it can be siding operator or siding co-user. |
| Siding owner | Entity (legal entity or individual) possessing the siding. |
| Siding | Railway track used for own transport needs of siding owner or other entity on a contract basis made with the siding owner; it joins a nationwide railway, local railway or another siding. |
| Siding operator | Siding operator, i.e. legal entity or individual operating the siding in compliance with the Railway Operation Permit issued by a particular authority under the Railways Act of the Slovak National Council No. 164/1996 Coll. as amended. |
| Siding operation | Set of traffic activities, which provide the siding shunting during an agreed time or at an agreed scope of services. |
| Siding contract | A subject of the contract is rights and obligations resulting from particular railways and traffic operation on these routes, to provide the junction operation of particular siding. |
| Siding services | The services provided by ZSSK CARGO in order to provide transport from siding to railway and vice versa. |
| SMGS | International railway goods transport agreement |
| Satisfaction of the customer | A level of customer’s perception to what extent his requirements have been met or his feelings resulting from differences between the requirements and perceived reality. |
| Siding co-user | Legal entity or person who co-utilizes the siding to meet its transportation needs, based on the co-utilization contract concluded with the siding owner. |
| Station | When the infrastructure operation is separated from traffic services of railway company, the “station” is a unit , which is required to provide trading services and place for these services in transportation of goods and objects |
| Siding co-utilization Contract | An agreement made between private siding owner and co-user, the subject of which is the approval of a private siding owner with co-utilization of the siding, as well as the rights and obligations resulting from the utilization of this siding by another user. |
| Station on the route | Station on a transport route where transport services with the consignment are carried as necessary. |
| Sending station | Station listed in a transport document where the consignor submits and the carrier takes over the consignment for transport. |
| Siding maintenance | A set of services ensuring the required technical conditions of the siding. |
| Siding traffic operation | It is a traffic operation on the track in compliance with the Act of the Slovak National Council No. 164/ 1996, Collection of Laws as amended |
| Siding operation | It is a track operation on the in compliance with the Act of the Slovak National Council No. 164/ 1996, Collection of Laws as amended |
| Swap body | Special standardized freight carrying unit of intermodal transport used for transport of goods with support legs, which can be handled by means for combined transport. It is used for combined conveyance – road/railway. |
| Traffic service | Product of conveyance satisfying transportation needs comprehensively as well as with concerning activities |
| Traffic routes | They are routes, which the means of transport are moved on. They can be natural (seas, rivers, air space, etc.), or artificial (roads, railways, phone and telegraphic cables, etc.). |
| Traffic rails | Rail designated for train transport, i.e. incoming, outgoing, transiting, passing and waiting rails. |
| Traffic devices | They are technical objects and announcing and security devices, which are necessary for conveyance (e.g. airports, ports, platforms, even radio and TV stations, etc.). |
| Tariff | Public list of offered prices and fees, obligatory for price negotiation pursuant to valid price legislative for services provided by the carrier. |
| TEU | Twenty-foot Equivalent Unit, standardized transport unit belonging to line 1 ISO containers size of 20´ (6.1 m), used for transportation flow and capacity measurements as a statistic unit. 40´ standardized container is equivalent to 2 TEU. |
| Trailer | A non-powered vehicle intended to be coupled to a motor vehicle |
| Transport | Activity, which results in movement of goods by means of transport. It is performed under a transport contract concluded between the carrier and forwarder. |
| Transport conditions | Legislative provisions modifying the rights and obligations of participating persons and organizations for transport of third parties’ needs. Each kind of conveyance has its own transport conditions - inland or international |
| Transport and tariff bulletin (PTV) | Periodical bulletin publishing transportation and tariff announcements and instructions for railway, road, communal, waterway and air transport. |
| Transport Note | Overall term for a carriage document including its annexes (accompanying documents) |
| Transport Rules of Železničná spločnosť Cargo Slovakia, a.s. | Business conditions for goods transport within inland consignment transport. |
| Traffic operation | Railway traffic operations are activities such as transportation of persons, animals and objects. |
| Traffic route operator (carrier) | The carrier is legal entity or individual meeting the conditions for transport of persons, animals and objects as specified by the law. |
| Unoccupied station | Place where the carrier provides services related to wagons shunting at a set time. |
| UN | Four-digit number marking dangerous substances and objects. |
| UTI/ILU | Intermodal transport unit used in railways as a basic measuring unit for accounting and statistical processing. |
| Unaccompanied combined transport | Unaccompanied combined transport is a transport of goods in intermodal transport units by not less than two different means of transportation |
| Unmatched goods | A product not meeting the set requirements. |
| Wagon | Track vehicle designated for transport of goods (objects). |
| Wagon label | Label used for marking wagons for transportation, forwarding or other reasons. |
| Wagon consignment | Consignment handed over for transport in one railway wagon at least using one consignment note. |
| Wagons rebinding | Rebind of broad-gauge wagon bogie to regular-gauge ones, and vice versa. |
| Wagon take over and hand over | Physical wagon take over and hand over at a set handover place. |
| Weight checking | Activity executed on scales or in any other way |
| Weight checking with railway weighting validity | Weight checking carried out by the forwarder using his own scales in compliance with the conditions contracted with the carrier |
| Wagon manipulation/handling | It is loading or unloading of the wagon. |
