Logistics · The cost per movement · Element
The freight cost
What is paid to move goods, per leg.
The part
What it is
Surcharges, fuel adjustments and accessorial charges frequently exceed the base rate and are billed separately.
Comparing modes requires the fully landed figure, since air freight’s premium is partly offset by lower inventory and insurance.
The smallest level
The attributes it carries
Each attribute is one of the framework’s shared types. What a date is, and how it is written, is defined once for the whole model — the note here says what it means in this particular place.
Surcharge share
How much of the total comes from charges outside the base rate.
Percentage shared type