Rail cargo consolidation is used by freight forwarders and railway operators to combine shipments from multiple consignors into shared trains, maximising wagon utilisation and distributing fixed costs across several customers.
Source: https://www.unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/cefact/trade/freight/documents/FTR_Glossary.pdf
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