91 Transportation Method/Type Code

Code specifying the method or type of transportation for the shipment

Type

Identifier (ID)

Length

Min 1 / Max 2

Codes

Code	Description
6	Military Official Mail
7	Mail Type of transportation provided by the U.S. Postal Service
A	Air
AC	Air Charter
AE	Air Express
AF	Air Freight
AH	Air Taxi FAA approved carrier utilizing a 1 or 2 engine aircraft for on demand service
AP	Air (Package Carrier)
AR	Armed Forces Courier Service (ARFCOS) A military organization whose mission involves the receipt, movement, and delivery of special categories of material
B	Barge
BB	Breakbulk Ocean
BP	Book Postal
BU	Bus
C	Consolidation
CC	Commingled Ocean
CE	Customer Pickup / Customer's Expense
D	Parcel Post
DA	Driveaway Service Movement of wheeled vehicle, wheeled equipment, or wheeled chassis of which is powered by a self-contained power unit (includes tractor/trailer combination)
DW	Driveaway, Truckaway, Towaway DoD policy includes all three terms in one. They mean collectively, a transportation method whereby a vehicle is moved under its own power by a driver, or loaded into or upon a carrier's equipment, or towed by carrier's equipment
E	Expedited Truck
ED	Air Mobility Command (AMC) Channel and Special Assignment Airlift Mission
F	Flyaway When an aircraft is sold to a customer, the delivery flight (non-revenue) includes goods and products (such as spare parts) as part of the contract
FA	Air Freight Forwarder A firm other than a railroad, motor, or water carrier, which represents itself as a common carrier and undertakes to assemble and consolidate shipments or provide for same and assumes responsibility for the air transportation of such property from point of receipt to its destination. Delivery is "Held in Bond"
FL	Motor (Flatbed)
G	Consignee Option
GG	Geographic Receiving/Shipping A collection of shipments that involve multiple origins, multiple destinations, and a single trailer, and are paid under a single freight bill
GR	Geographic Receiving A collection of shipments that involve a single origin, multiple destinations, and a single trailer, and are paid under a single freight bill
GS	Geographic Shipping A collection of shipments that involve multiple origins, a single destination, and a single trailer, and are paid under a single freight bill
H	Customer Pickup
HH	Household Goods Truck
I	Common Irregular Carrier
IP	Intermodal (Personal Property)
J	Motor
K	Backhaul
L	Contract Carrier
LA	Military Air
LD	Local Delivery
LT	Less Than Trailer Load (LTL)
M	Motor (Common Carrier)
MB	Motor (Bulk Carrier)
MP	Motor (Package Carrier)
MS	Military Sealift Command (MSC)
N	Private Vessel
O	Containerized Ocean
P	Private Carrier
PA	Pooled Air Outbound shipment from an airport consolidation point to a final destination via an air move
PG	Pooled Piggyback Outbound shipment consisting of a trailer on a railcar from a consolidation point to a final destination via rail move
PL	Pipeline
PP	Pool to Pool Shipment moves from one consolidation point to another consolidation point before final delivery
PR	Pooled Rail
PT	Pooled Truck
Q	Conventional Ocean
R	Rail
RC	Rail, Less than Carload Movement by rail of a quantity of freight less than that required for the application of a carload rate
RO	Ocean (Roll on - Roll off)
RR	Roadrailer Used for shipments that travel by roadrailer, i.e., a multimodal rail/highway trailer
S	Ocean
SB	Shipper Agent Agent for piggyback code consolidation
SC	Shipper Agent (Truck) Motor carrier agent for piggyback trailer consolidators
SD	Shipper Association Non-profit cooperative consolidator or distributors of shipments by member firms
SE	Sea/Air
SF	Surface Freight Forwarder
SR	Supplier Truck
SS	Steamship
ST	Stack Train
T	Best Way (Shippers Option)
TA	Towaway Service Movement of shipper owned trailers or semi-trailers loaded and/or pulled by carrier furnished power unit
TC	Cab (Taxi)
TT	Tank Truck
U	Private Parcel Service
VA	Motor (Van)
VE	Vessel, Ocean
VL	Vessel, Lake
W	Inland Waterway
WP	Water or Pipeline Intermodal Movement A water move by barge or tanker followed by a pipeline move to the destination
X	Intermodal (Piggyback)
XE	Intermodal Expedited
Y	Military Intratheater Airlift Service Method of movement of material from a point in a theater to another point within the same theater by military controlled aircraft
Y1	Ocean Conference Carrier
Y2	Ocean Non-Conference Carrier
ZZ	Mutually defined

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