ROAD TERMS

ADR

It is a standard that includes the rules for the transportation of flammable, explosive and chemical substances by land. The law on membership to the ADR convention was enacted in the Turkish Grand National Assembly on 30 November 2005. The law entered into force on 1 January 2009

ATR Certificate

It is a document issued by the exporter in order to benefit from customs exemption in the export of goods in free circulation according to the Customs Union agreement signed between Turkey and the European Community.

TR Regulatory Countries

Germany, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Croatia, Netherlands, England, Ireland, Spain, Sweden, Italy, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Romania , Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey, Greece.

EUR.1 Certificate

EFTA (European Free Trade Association, European Free Trade Association) countries, AKÇT (European Coal and Steel)

Community) and agricultural products, it is a document issued in order to benefit from customs reductions in exports to the European Union and countries with which Turkey has signed free trade agreements.

GTİP

It is the abbreviation used for the customs tariff statistics position. Composed of 12 digits, GTIP is used to define and differentiate products in international trade. Detailed information can be easily accessed by using GTIP for products manufactured in different parts of the world.

Armonize Sistem (Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System (HS Code)

The product coding system used in more than 170 countries affiliated to the World Customs Organization is called the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System (HS Code).

EX1 Export customs certificate

Export documents used in exports in European countries
Document used at customs exit

CMR

It is a road transport document. CMR Certificate is a transport document issued in accordance with the International CMR Agreement for truck transports.

Fictitious

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FEU

A unit equivalent to 40 feet. It is the unit of measurement used to indicate the capacity of containers. 1 FEU is 40 ft (length) × 8 ft (width) × 9 ft (height) or 12,192 m (height) × 2.44 m (width) × 2.59 m (height) in metric and has a volume of approximately 67.5 m³.

Refrigerated

It is a road vehicle designed and manufactured for the transport of foodstuffs, drugs and some chemicals sensitive to heat exchange, whose wall thickness and insulation value vary depending on the sensitivity of the material to the heat exchange and which has a cooling unit.

Gauge

These are the measurements that determine the length, width and height of the vehicles in order to ensure safe travel on the road, loaded or unloaded.

Temporary Storage Location

It is the place where the goods are allowed to be temporarily stored by the customs administration until they are subjected to a customs-approved treatment or use after they are presented to the customs.

Intermodal Transportation

It is the type of transportation that is carried out by using two or more modes of transportation with the same transportation vehicle or container and in which the loads in the vehicle or container are not subjected to any handling during mode changes.

Combined Transport

It is a type of transportation that is not intermodal but is made by using more than one transportation vehicle (train, truck, etc.) in conjunction with each other.

Weighbridge

It is the measuring device that the vehicles that will receive the load stop to be weighed after they are empty and loaded.

Bill of lading

It is a cargo transport document containing information about the content of the cargo carried.

Container

They are standard metal cargo boxes that are resistant to all kinds of atmospheric conditions, especially used in intermodal transportation, that can be easily handled and stacked on top of each other. Types of 20, 40 and 45 are the most common. This classification has been made according to the varying size of the containers.

LOW-BED

It is a semi-trailer that enables the transportation of loads different from the length, height, width and tonnage that normal trucks and yachts can carry, other than the standards according to international and domestic road transport regulations, such as heavy construction machinery or special project loads.

Delivery order

It is the order given to clear the goods coming from abroad in return for the bill of lading.

Shipment Note

Official document stating the name, amount, freight cost and invoice number of the load on the vehicle. It is a document that must be arranged and kept with the goods during the transportation of the commercial goods from one place to another in order to control the goods in terms of tax legislation during the transportation.

Spanzet

Official document stating the name, amount, freight cost and invoice number of the load on the vehicle. It is a document that must be arranged and kept with the goods during the transportation of the commercial goods from one place to another in order to control the goods in terms of tax legislation during the transportation.

Supala

It is a method generally used in land and sea transportation, it is the situation where the customs clearance of the material is made on the vehicle that carries the transportation.

Transport Waybill

It is a document issued by those carrying out transport activities, in accordance with the provisions of the relevant legislation, for the goods or cargo carried at the same time, on the same vehicle, belonging to one or more consignors and the sender.

Tır

It is the initials of the French words Transports Internationaux Routiers. It is an agreement signed by the International Transport Union (IRU) within the United Nations Organization on January 15, 1959 in Geneva. This agreement is signed by 11 countries (Austria, Sweden, Portugal, Bulgaria, Finland, Hungary, France, Malta, Switzerland, Tunisia and Yugoslavia). It is a contract that allows combined transportation (road, rail, air, waterways) and the use of containers (1994).

In practice, the road vehicles of the countries included in this agreement carry a TIR Carnet indicating the type, quantity and nature of the bonded goods loaded on the vehicle and TIR plates to be affixed to certain parts of the vehicle. The customs control of the goods specified in the TIR Carnet and loaded on the vehicle is carried out in the country of origin, only external controls -except in suspicious cases- are sufficient at the customs of the countries on the route to the destination. In our country, the transport vehicles consisting of semi-trailer and tow truck are called TIR.

Tır report card

It refers to the transport of passengers or goods, which starts in any country and ends in another country after passing through the territory of at least one country, and covers the transports made through countries other than the countries of start and end.

Transit Transport

It refers to the transport of passengers or goods, which starts in any country and ends in another country after passing through the territory of at least one country, and covers the transports made through countries other than the countries of start and end.

It is an international organization that was founded in 1953 by 17 countries, including Turkey as the founding country, and today has approximately 50 member countries. The activities in our country are carried out by the Ministry of Transport, and laws, regulations and practices related to standardization are carried out by this institution.