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ETA

Meaning in logistics & supply chain, with examples

abbreviationCore term

In logistics & supply chain, ETA means: Short for estimated time of arrival: the date and time when a ship, plane, truck or shipment is expected to arrive.

In Turkish: tahmini varış zamanı, tahmini varış tarihi

How it is used

Used constantly in emails, tracking updates and planning calls, often without a verb: 'ETA Monday', 'new ETA 14 March'. Its partner ETD means estimated time of departure. People ask 'What's the ETA?' and say an ETA is confirmed, revised or pushed back.

Example sentences

  1. The vessel's ETA in Hamburg has moved from Tuesday to Friday because of port congestion.

  2. What's the ETA on the replacement parts?

Common collocations

  • revised ETA
  • confirm the ETA
  • ETA at port
  • ETA and ETD
  • push back the ETA
  • in transitTravelling between the place of departure and the destination; goods in transit have left the sender but have not yet been delivered.
  • tracking numberA unique number given to a parcel or shipment so that the sender, the receiver and the carrier can follow its progress online.
  • transit timeThe time goods spend travelling from the point of departure to the destination, not counting time for production, loading or customs.
  • visibilityThe ability to see where goods, orders and stock are at any moment along the supply chain, usually through shared real-time data.
  • vesselA ship, especially a large one that carries cargo; the standard word for ships in shipping documents and freight emails.

This word in other fields

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