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Frais de port tiers

English translation: third party carriage costs

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French term or phrase:Frais de port tiers
English translation:third party carriage costs
Entered by: Lara Barnett

23:09 Aug 3, 2019
French to English translations [Non-PRO]
Bus/Financial - General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters / bank statement
French term or phrase: Frais de port tiers
This is the description of a small payment of 085 CHF on a Swiss banking statement. This is all it says, then it lists this amount and the date.
Lara Barnett
United Kingdom
Local time: 02:52
third party carriage costs
Explanation:
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Bashiqa
France
Local time: 03:52
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Summary of answers provided
3 +8third party carriage costs
Bashiqa
3 -2third-country port taxes
Thierry Martial NIANGORAN


Discussion entries: 3





  

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18 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): -2
third-country port taxes


Explanation:
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Note added at 22 mins (2019-08-03 23:32:46 GMT)
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un port tiers est différent du port d’embarquement et du port de destination finale.

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Note added at 34 mins (2019-08-03 23:44:01 GMT)
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or also "third country sea port charges"

Thierry Martial NIANGORAN
Cote D'ivoire
Local time: 01:52
Meets criteria
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Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench, Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  AllegroTrans: Doesn't frais de port usually mean carriage or postage costs? How can you assume port taxes with zero context?
25 mins
neutral  writeaway: imo you have misunderstood the word port here: a small payment of 085 CHF, nothing to do with seaports, ships etc.
9 hrs
disagree  Daryo: given the amount, makes no sense whatsoever - for that money they wouldn't let you moor even an origami paper boat. // It's not "just words", it's got to make sense int the real world, preferably ...
14 hrs
disagree  Tony M: This is ignoring the normal meaning of 'frais de port', and also ignoring the common sense of the available context.
16 hrs
agree  Anais Devenish: Third party shipping = third party port costs
1 day 5 hrs
disagree  Rob Grayson: Absolutely nothing to do with ports
1 day 9 hrs
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8 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +8
third party carriage costs


Explanation:
Not much info with question.

Bashiqa
France
Local time: 03:52
Meets criteria
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 32

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Adrian MM.
34 mins
  -> Thank you.
agree  writeaway: hard to see what else it could be.
54 mins
  -> Thank you.
agree  AllegroTrans: High probablity
2 hrs
  -> Thank you.
agree  Daryo: However much Swiss French can be weird, can't see what else could make sense.
5 hrs
  -> Thank you.
agree  Tony M
8 hrs
  -> Thank you.
agree  Michele Fauble
11 hrs
  -> Thank you.
agree  Anais Devenish: Third party shipping = third party carriage costs
20 hrs
  -> Thank you.
agree  Chakib Roula
1 day 2 hrs
  -> Thank you.
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