This review article was written by employees of the Department of Trade and Cargo Handling at the State University of Transport and the Department of Economic Logistics at the University of Economics in Katowice. It provides a cross-sectional view of the cargo unit in the process of movement within the logistics chain. It also contains a slightly different treatment of packaging and so-called tare – as a special type of packaging. In Polish, “tara” (tare) means only the weight of the packaging – in this study, a broader concept has been assigned to it. This does not mean an attempt to introduce a new conceptual meaning into the Polish dictionary, but merely presents a slightly different perspective on observing phenomena.
A logistical chain is the entirety of many elements of the transport process participating in the carriage of cargo: senders, recipients, transshipment points of various types of transport, cargo terminals of various types and purposes, transport companies, etc.
The article comes from the magazine “Logistyka” 2003/5.