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Container yard CY and container freight station CFS

What is the container yard CY, please? What is a container freight station, CFS?What's the difference between the two? Thank you

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Container yard is also called "depot" in some places. It refers to the place where containers are loaded or empty containers are loaded and carried, transported, stored and handed over. For the export of Marine Containers, the function of the yard is to assemble the containers of all export customers somewhere (whether customs clearance or not)
Container freight station is CFS for transfer to LCL packing and unpacking place. It is an integral part of the container transportation relationship. It handle LCL cargo transfer, loading stowage, will be sent to CY box, and accept CY to import containers, devanning, cargo handling, storage, and finally to the consignee
After truncation port time, then unified embarks (at this time must have clearance). That is to say, the container yard is uniform clearance before the board together, in the container goods yard waiting for clearance, so that the shipping companies, customs and other management.
That's what you mean, you understand. It is in accordance with the stowage stowage of containers for each weight, size, arrangement of the name which the goods packed in a container.

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