on 04-16-2008 10:29 AM
Dear Experts
Please explain the difference between:
Main Leg & Direct Leg
Thanks
Siddharth Sridhar
Hiya
Main leg would be a larger portion of a leg in an multi leg route, where as direct leg is where there is a single transit mode.
For example--
If you are sending material to china it would go to dock and then from there to a dock in china and from there to you SH.
Here you can say that the second leg where the goods are in transit in sea is an main leg.
If you have a SH in the same country and you are transferring item directly via truck in a single transit than that is a direct leg.
Regards
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A Stage actually refers to the information about the geographical factors of a shipment. Any shipment can have 3 types of stages - Legs, Load Transfer Point and Border Crossing Point.
A shipment can have any one or all 3 or any combination of the stages.
Leg - Refers to the Starting point and Ending point of a shipment. Could also include any intermediate points (Destinations)
For eg. : Assume there are two deliveries (D1 and D2) in a shipment.
D1 : From A - B
D2 : From C - D
Now the legs will typically be
A - B (D1 is assigned)
B - C (Empty leg - No deliveries)
C - D (D2 is assigned)
There are different types of legs available
1. Direct leg
2. Preliminary Leg
3. Main Leg
4. Subsequent Leg
5. Return Leg
In the example above, all legs are "Direct Legs".
If a shipment goes from Bangalore to Palo Alto Via Mumbai and San Fransisco then
Bangalore - Mumbai (Via Road / Rail) - Preliminary Leg
Mumbai - SFO (Via Sea / Air) - Main Leg
SFO - Palo Alto (Via Road) - Subsequent Leg
Off the above 3 legs, Mumbai could be a Load Transfer Point (The point where a shipment is unloaded from one MOT and loaded onto another).
Leg is nothing but the route
there r 5 types of legs
1. preliminary leg( for example your route destination is from delhi thru mumbai to chennai, preliminary leg is from delhi to mumbai)
2. subsequent leg( is from mumbai to chennai. this comes after ur preliminary leg)
3.direct leg( from delhi to chennai in one shot)
4.main leg( is from one stop point to another stop point for example from delhi to ur first point ie mumbai or it can be from mumbai to chennai also)
5. return leg( is the reverse action directly ie from chennai to delhi in the other direction)
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