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Economic globalization refers to the widespread international movement of goods, capital, services, technology and information. It is the increasing economic integration and interdependence of national, regional, and local economies across the world through an intensification of cross-border movement of goods, services, technologies and capital ...
Freight rate. A freight rate (historically and in ship chartering simply freight[ 1]) is a price at which a certain cargo is delivered from one point to another. The price depends on the form of the cargo, the mode of transport ( truck, ship, train, aircraft ), the weight of the cargo, and the distance to the delivery destination.
An economic system, or economic order, [ 1] is a system of production, resource allocation and distribution of goods and services within a society. It includes the combination of the various institutions, agencies, entities, decision-making processes, and patterns of consumption that comprise the economic structure of a given community.
In economics, elasticity measures the responsiveness of one economic variable to a change in another. [1] If the price elasticity of the demand of something is -2, a 10% increase in price causes the quantity demanded to fall by 20%. Elasticity in economics provides an understanding of changes in the behavior of the buyers and sellers with price ...
Business portal. Money portal. v. t. e. Economics ( / ˌɛkəˈnɒmɪks, ˌiːkə -/) [ 1][ 2] is a social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. [ 3][ 4] Economics focuses on the behaviour and interactions of economic agents and how economies work.
FOB (shipping) FOB ( free on board) is a term in international commercial law specifying at what point respective obligations, costs, and risk involved in the delivery of goods shift from the seller to the buyer under the Incoterms standard published by the International Chamber of Commerce. FOB is only used in non-containerized sea freight or ...
Transferability (economics) Transferability refers to the costs involved in moving goods from one place to another. [1] These include the costs of transportation, the costs of making the goods compliant with the regulations of the shipping destination, and the costs associated with tariffs or duties .
Definition and functions. A freight forwarder is an entity who co-ordinates and organizes the movement of shipments on behalf of a shipper (party that arranges an item for shipment) by liaising with carriers. [ 3] A carrier is an entity that actually transports goods and may use a variety of shipping modes, including ships, airplanes, trucks ...