Scientific paper ID 1819 : 2019/3

Abstract: The conceptual essence of the term is considered as consisting of content and meaning. The term content is all the knowledge about an object of reality. The meaning of the term representing this concept contains only the most essential semantic features which are presented in its definition.

An attempt to create a diagram of conceptual and semantic relations between freight forwarding terms should begin with identification of the semantic features of the term “freight forwarding” which directly or indirectly generates all the others. Therefore definitions in various sources were analyzed and the features belonging both to its meaning and its content were identified: subject (forwarder), consumer (client), purpose (cargo delivery), actions to achieve the purpose (basic – transportation, auxiliary – forwarding services), condition (freight forwarding agreement). The semantic features object (cargo) and means (means of transport) directly belong to the meaning of the term “transportation”.

The terms representing the concept of freight forwarding and its differential features form a system group with implication semantic relations inside it. The relations between terms “freight forwarding” on the one hand and “transportation” and “forwarding services” on the other are partitive. The semantic relations between term “freight forwarding” and the rest of the terms are associative as well as the relations between the term “transportation” and terms “cargo” and “means of transport”.