Glossary

Consignment:
Goods that are handed over to the railway company with a consignment note attached to them and that the railway company accepts and undertakes to deliver.

Logistics:
Well organized and coordinated interdependent flow of the goods, human resources, information and money in the economical and social processes.

Supplementary Fee:
It is the price paid for such services that the railway company provide in connection with the consignment accepted for delivery upon the request of the customer or by statutory regulation.

Scaled weight:
It is the weight that the railway company established during the official weighing and records on the consignment note (justified by stamp).

NHM:
(Nomenclature Harmonisée des Marchandises) Harmonic List of Goods equivalent to the customs tariff code scheme.

Track gauge:
This shows the distance between the two rails of the track based on a measurement between the inside edge of the top of rails. Standard track gauge: 1435 mm. Wide track gauge: 1520 mm.

Parity:
This indicates the topographical spot of the cost-sharing between the seller and the buyer. Please refer to Incoterms2000 under Information menu to get more information.

RID:
This includes the carriage, packaging and loading requirements of hazardous goods that are subject to restrictions when transporting internationally.

Safety Gauge:
This is an equipment (a frame structure equipped with intrusive chains and bells) installed at stations under which loaded, open wagons can pass through without touching the equipment.

Loading Gauge:
This is the height to which open wagons can be loaded without endangering the railway operation.

Loading Tool:
This is a loading tool not constituting part of the wagon that is used to fix and protect the goods during transportation. These are the properties of the railway company. Loading tools used by MÁV: Cloth covering 460x763 cm (35.1 m2), plastic covering 660x760 cm (50.2 m2), bulk panel filling, exchange EUR pallet.

Loading Weight/Capacity:
This is a data applying to the wagon that indicates the maximum allowable weight the wagon is suitable to transport.

Re-expedition:
Re-sending of the consignment.

Re-export:
This is an activity directed to the further sale of import goods in a third country that bears re-exporter mediating merchandise risk.

Refaction:
This is an allowance from the carriage fee when the railway company provides discount from the carriage fee paid for their transportation services.

Place of Execution:
This is the location where the risk of damage passes over.

Axle Exchange / Re-Axling:
This is the technical method for resolving track distance changing traffic (Záhony/Csop). This is a technical procedure during which the bogies of wagons are replaced to the appropriate bogies of wagons of another track distance. In such cases, goods remain in the wagons of the deliverer railway company.

Axle Pressure:
This is the sum of the wagon’s net weight and load weight placed in the wagon divided by the number of axles.

Load-bearing Capacity:
This is the maximum allowable weight that the wagon is suitable for carrying.

Transit:
Connection of an import and export transaction with the involvement of a transitor that undertakes to deliver to goods to the customer on its own behalf against appropriate fee.

Subsequent order :
If, after dispatching the consignment, the economic conditions that allowed the commencement of carriage have become subject to change, it is possible to amend the modifications of the carriage agreement and change certain substantive parts pursuant to applicable regulations.

Clearance gauge:
This is the minimum allowable distance between the units of the train (drawing and drawn wagons) and railway construction works (e.g. bridges, poles, wires) and that between trains passing next to each other on parallel tracks.