Container Freight Station Location designated by the ocean carrier for the receiving and delivering of shipment, and for assembly and distribution of shipments into or out of steamship line containers Most LCL lots of cargo are either packed into or devanned at the CFS The carrier may store empty containers at a CFS but will not receive or deliver containers at a CFS
Abbrev , "Canopy Formation Skydiving" The new "official" term for a discipline of skydiving in which jumpers under canopy fly their parachutes together to form various formations However, most skydivers still refer to it as "CRW" (See CRW )
A place at which LCL traffic is received from the Merchant by or on behalf of the Carrier for packing into a Container and/or at which LCL traffic is delivered by or on behalf of the Carrier to the Merchant after unpacking from a Container
The flow rate or discharge equal to one cubic foot (of water, usually) per second This rate is equivalent to approximately 7 48 gallons per second This is also referred to as a second-foot
cluster file system A virtual file system that sits above the physical file systems and provides clusterwide access (with assistance from the device request dispatcher) to all mounted file systems in a cluster CFS maintains cache coherency across all cluster members, which ensures that all members have an identical, consistent view of file systems directly connected to the cluster
cubic feet per second; 450 gallons per minute (gmp); 646,360 gallons per day; for 24 hours: 1 983 acre-feet; for 30 days: 59 5 acre-feet; for 1 year: 724 acre-feet
Cubic feet per second Sometimes referred to as second feet A unit of water flow used to indicate the volume of water flowing per second past any given point along a river
A measurement of water flow equivalent to one cubic foot of water passing a given point for an entire second One KCFS equals a 1,000 CFS
The term CFS at loading port means the location designated by carriers for the receiving of cargo to be packed into containers by the carrier At discharge ports, the term CFS means the bonded location designated by carriers in the port area for unpacking and delivery of cargo