I.
Lead in
Originally, the term “shipment” is “the loading of goods on a ship” or “delivery of goods to an ocean carrier”. However, it is commonly known as the same as “delivery” in actual trading practice today. Because the effectuation of shipment by the seller is for the delivery of goods and most of the exports and imports are still transported by sea in modern times. In some countries, such as the USA, shipment also means loading goods onto a train, a truck or an airplane, or sending goods to a railway company or even a post office.
II. Warming up
Step 1 Ask the students to give the match Key:
Ocean (Marine) C Airway A Trucking E
Railway D
Inland Waterway F
Multi-model Combined Transport B
Step 2. Ask the students to work in groups of 4 to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of
each means of transportation.
Step 3. Ask the representatives of some groups to present their discussions.
III. Situational dialogues Dialogue 1
Task Task 1
Step 1 Ask the students to arrange the action in order Make out the documents Make delivery
Check production schedule Book shipping space Get goods eady
Step 2 Ask the students to work in pairs and take turns to describe the procedure before delivery.
Task 2
Step 1 Teacher explains the patterns
Step 2 Ask the students to give the new sentence
1.(1) deliver before the selling season → In order to meet the selling season, we do hope you can
deliver before the selling season.
(2) ship in three lots→ Since we are in bad need of your goods, we agree shipping in three lots. (3) transship via Hong Kong → In order to meet the selling season, we hope you can transship
via Hongkong.
2. (1) workers are fully committed →It’s impossible for us to advance the time of delivery
because our workers are fully committed.
(2) no direct vessel to the destination during the required period →We can’t find the shipping
space because there is no direct vessel to the destination during the required period.
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Task 3
Step 1 Study the examples
Step 2 Ask the students to work in pairs, one read Chinese while the other translate Key:
70% of the order in early January and the balance at the end of Febrary. Ship whatever you have in the first month and the balance in the second.
Please make the shipment in three equal lots.
Please make shipements in three equal monthly lots, each containing 1000 tons.
Step 3 Ask the students to work in pairs, try to make a minidialogue with some sentences
translated.
Dialogue 2
Task Task 1
Step 1 Ask the students to work in pairs and take turns to give the Chinese direct steamer 直达船只 combined transport联合运输 multimodal combined 多式联运 liners班轮
tramp 不定期货轮 voyage charter程租船 Dry Cargo Ship干货船
General Cargo Ship杂货船 Refrigerated Ship冷藏船 Container Ship 集装箱船 Barge Carrier载驳船
Step 2 Ask the students to choose one phrase and explain to the partner
Task 2
Ask the students to work in pairs, one read Chinese while the other translate what he hears. 1. 我们会安排四月最近期的船只装运，允许分批装运和在香港转运。 2. 装运期为二月或三月，由我方决定，一次装完。 3. 货将于四月至六月份分三批平均装运。 4. 货一般可于收到信用证后三十天内装出 。
IV. Practice Practice 1
Reference for the first situation:
For we have made a sucessful promotion for our products, we got an unexpected rise in demand. What’s more, we just checked with our manufacturer and got to know they have not been
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able to cope with orders. We suggest you allow partial shipment and we can ensure 50% proportion of the first lot. We think this will be the best way for dealing with the current circumstance.
Reference for the second situation:
We regret we can't deliver as you desired. You know June is the busy season for European saillings, that’s to say, we will definitely meet with the transport congestion and fail to find container space for the goods. Therefore, transshipment via Hong Kong will be an effective way to ensure your schedule.
V. Learning More
Suggested answer:
1. Coastal cargo ships and tramp ships are small ships and operate on unfixed routes to irregular schedules while cargo liners operate on fixed routes to regular schedules.
2. Tramp ship goes to wherever cargo is offered which doesn’t operate on fixed routes or regular schedules. 3. It all depends.
Supplementary questions:
1. How many passengers are usually accommodated on cargo liners? 2. What’s the common disadvantage to tramp ships. Suggested answer:
1. They usually have accommodation for 12 passengers.
2. The cargo-handling properties are much inferior to those of the specialized ship.
译文
杂货船
杂货船通过货舱或甲板运载这种或那种不整齐的干货。有很多种类型的杂货船，但是基本分为三类：
(1) 沿海货船主要用于在一个或毗连的国家港口之间的货运贸易。也时常用在短途海洋运输中，通常为总载重量 2,000 吨的小船。
(2) 不定期货船主要用于贸易和运送去往任何提供货物的地方, 过去这两种均为总载重量2000-5000吨的小船。现在则使用比过去大、速度快的船只。
(3) 按固定航线、固定时间表运行的定期货轮。即使货物量很少，他们也会按照路线安排到所有的港口停靠。一些船只有12位乘客的铺位，但是很少有货船携带超过12位的。他们的最快时速为16~18节，而且几乎全部货船都装有冷冻舱和至少一架起重机。
标有“不定期货船”的船只很可能被误认为是血统不正（非正规船只）。不定期海运总能找到些小生意，虽然它慢慢地将会变得相对不重要。不定期货船现在是众所周知的多功能货运船只，具有单一的双层甲板适合运输种类繁多的货物。当然也得承认，这类船有着通用船普遍的一个缺点：装卸的货物比不上专用船只所运载的货物贵重。
Supplementary Materials 补充材料
Shipping is a basic process of transporting goods and cargo. Virtually every product ever made, bought, or sold has been affected by shipping. Despite the many variables in shipped
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products and locations, there are only three basic types of shipments: land, air, and sea.
Land or “ground” shipping can be either by train or by truck. Trucking is easily the most popular form of shipping. Even in air and Sea shipments, ground transportation is still required to take the product from its origin to the airport or seaport and then to its destination. Ground transportation is typically more affordable than air shipments, but more expensive than shipping by sea. Trucks are also much faster than ships and rail but slower than planes.
Many trucks will take freight directly from the shipper to its destination in what is known as a door to door shipment. Vans and trucks of all sizes make deliveries to sea ports and air ports where freight is moved in bulk also.
Much shipping is done aboard actual ships. The ships are also extremely expensive constructions themselves, being some of the largest man-made vehicles ever.
Air transport is usually reserved for products which must be sent within a shorter time frame. Some carriers offer ground shipping that operates on an exact timeline as air does. This is a recent development becoming mainstream among major carriers since the late 1990s.
Source: http:∥en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shipping
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