Cartage
Under cartage ( English cartage, drayage ) refers to transportation costs , which in the transport in a supply chain from the sender to the main transport means or from the latter to the receiver incurred.
General
The word comes from the unwinding of barrels to the train station or from the train station to the recipient. For this, the cart service took a fee called cartage. In March 1932, the “rail transport service” between the Deutsche Reichsbahn and Deutsche Bahnspedition GmbH ( “Schenker contract” ) came into force, which provided for such cartage.
Today, cartage is incurred if, for example, the goods are transported from the sender with the truck by the shipping agent during the pre-carriage to the train station or from the train station by truck during the subsequent carriage by the receiving carrier to the recipient ( combined transport ). The main means of transport ( main route ) in this case is the railroad ( freight train ); this applies accordingly to cargo planes or cargo ships as the main means of transport. To differentiate, one also speaks of cartage I for the transport costs of the forwarding agent, whereas the transport costs of the receiving forwarder are called cartage II .
The recipients of the cartage are mostly forwarding agents who carry out the transport to or from the main means of transport (shipping forwarders or receiving forwarders). Who is the payer for the cartage depends on the delivery conditions , trade clauses or Incoterms .
Legal issues
Terms of delivery also contain agreements on the distribution of the transport costs so that they also take into account the carriage. The commercial clause " free domicile " means that the supplier bears all transport costs - and thus also the cartage - to the recipient. In contrast, the Incoterm is " ex works ", in which the recipient has to assume all transport costs. The trade clauses “ not free ”, “free wagon” or “free destination station” provide for a division of the transport costs . For example, in the case of the “carriage paid” trade clause (i.e. the seller bears the transport costs to the destination station), the seller pays Cartage I and the buyer has to pay Cartage II .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gerhard Wahrig (Ed.), German Dictionary , 1968, Col. 2963
- ↑ Otto Elsner-Verlag (ed.), Der Papier-Fabrikant , Volume 30, 1932, p. 127
- ↑ Gerhard Lippe / Jörn Esemann / Thomas Tänzer, Knowledge for bankers , 2001, p. 124
