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Shipment

Term · Transportation · MLC-T-TRA-000374

An individual movement of commodities from an establishment to a customer or to another location of the originating company (including a warehouse, distribution center, retail or wholesale outlet). A shipment uses one or more modes of transportation including parcel delivery, U.S. Postal Service, courier, private truck, for-hire truck, rail, water, pipeline, air, and other modes.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-TRA-000374
FieldTransportation
ReferencesTranStats Glossary
Record as JSON 
{
  "id": "MLC-T-TRA-000374",
  "term": "Shipment",
  "field": "Transportation",
  "definition": "An individual movement of commodities from an establishment to a customer or to another location of the originating company (including a warehouse, distribution center, retail or wholesale outlet). A shipment uses one or more modes of transportation including parcel delivery, U.S. Postal Service, courier, private truck, for-hire truck, rail, water, pipeline, air, and other modes.",
  "references": [
    "TranStats Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/transportation/shipment/"
}

Record 357 of 429 in Transportation terminology (MLC-0120). Request the full dataset.