Shipping Glossary

U / UNCLAIMED FREIGHT

Uncalled-for or unpicked-up freight by the ultimate consignee.

Unclaimed freight can be a result of several different situations.

• Both the receiver and the shipper have not called about the shipment for various reasons.
• The freight is undeliverable because details in the shipping address are missing and neither the
• shipper nor the receiver provided them by the deadline.
• It has been more than a month since the freight was allowed to be stored in the logistic provider's depot, but no one claimed it.
• Shipping paperwork is lost or the cargo is shipped to the wrong destination - restoring the documentation or rerouting the freight might incur additional costs the shipper/receiver or logistics provider is unwilling to bear.
• The disagreement between the freight forwarder/logistics provider and the shipper led to additional demurrage costs. Delivering the cargo makes no sense when the fees can be more expensive than the value of the freight.
• Both the buyer and the seller do not want to claim the cargo because it is damaged during transit, arrives in unacceptable conditions, and the items are unusable.