🇸🇬 Singapore Shipping & Logistics Glossary
Singapore-specific shipping, customs, maritime and port terms — from TradeNet and the Major Exporter Scheme to PORTNET, PSA, Tuas Port, the Singapore Registry of Ships and the world's largest bunkering market. The systems and schemes behind the world's premier transhipment and trade hub.
12 Singapore-specific terms
221 terms total
M
Major Exporter Scheme (MES)Major Exporter Scheme
A Singapore GST scheme that suspends import GST for approved businesses that import and export substantially.
Customs & Compliance
MPA (Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore)Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore
The statutory board that regulates and promotes Singapore's port and maritime industry.
Maritime & Ship Management
P
PORTNET
PSA's port community system connecting lines, hauliers and forwarders to Singapore's container terminals.
Freight & NVOCC
PSA Singapore (Port of Singapore Authority)Port of Singapore Authority
The main container terminal operator in Singapore and the world's largest transhipment hub operator.
Freight & NVOCC
S
Singapore Bunkering
Marine-fuel supply in Singapore — the world's largest bunker port, regulated by MPA and delivered via mass flow meters.
Maritime & Ship Management
Singapore Customs Permit
The TradeNet approval required to import, export, tranship or move goods in Singapore.
Customs & Compliance
Singapore Free Trade Zone (FTZ)Free Trade Zone
Designated zones at Singapore's ports and airport where goods can be stored, transhipped and re-exported free of duty and GST.
Customs & Compliance
Singapore Registry of Ships (SRS)Singapore Registry of Ships
The ship registry administered by MPA under which vessels fly the reputable Singapore flag.
Maritime & Ship Management
T
TradeFIRSTTrade Facilitation & Integrated Risk-based System
Singapore Customs' single assessment that grades a company's trade compliance and unlocks facilitation benefits and schemes.
Customs & Compliance
TradeNet
Singapore's national single window for submitting import, export and transhipment declarations to all trade agencies at once.
Customs & Compliance
Tuas Port
Singapore's new mega-port at Tuas, consolidating all container operations into one automated terminal.
Maritime & Ship Management
Z
Zero-GST Warehouse (ZGS)Zero-GST Warehouse Scheme
A Singapore Customs scheme letting non-dutiable imported goods be stored with GST suspended until removed for local use.
Customs & Compliance
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