Preferred label
Shipping
Alternative labels
Cargo
Cargo handling
Freight
Freight handling
Goods transportation
Materials handling
Packing & shipping
Trucking
Broader term
Transportation
Related terms
Barges
Bundling (Packing)
Cargo ships
Carts & wagons
Commerce
Convoys
Crates
Freight handlers' strikes
Liberty ships
Lifting & carrying
Loading docks
Longshoremen
Marine terminals
Moving & storage trade
Moving of structures
Piers & wharves
Portages
Porters
Railroad freight cars
Tankers
Trailers
Transport planes
Scope note
For activities involved in the packing, dispatch, and unloading of goods and commodities.
Editorial note
As appropriate, double index under the mode of transportation and under specific goods, commodities, or industry.
Change note
Formerly TGMI term.