Page 118 - 2017 Hotel Cost Estimating Guide

Partners in Protection (PIP) | A CCRA initiative Private Company | A company whose shares are
designed to enlist the cooperation of private industry not traded on the open market.

in efforts to enhance border security and increase

awareness of customs compliance issues.
Product Improvement Plan / Property Improvement
Plan (PIP) | A document, usually created by a hotel

Perishable Cargo | Cargo subject to decay or brand, that details the improvements that must be

deterioration, normally fresh food and vegetables, etc.
made to a hotel property to obtain or maintain that hotel
brand lag. PIPs are usually created upon transfer of

Pier-to-House (P/H) | See “CY/CFS.” ownership and renewal of license agreements.

Pier-to-Pier (P/P) | See “CY/CFS.”
Project Management | A type of irm that works

directly on behalf of the owner, managing all the

Place of Acceptance | See “Place of Receipt.” portions of the design and construction work, and that
generally holds no subcontracts.

Place of Delivery | See “Final Destination.”

Property Condition Assessment | A detailed
Place of Receipt (P.O.R.) | Location where cargo inspection of a property’s existing conditions often

enters the care and custody of the carrier. Same as done as part of a property transfer or as a due diligence

Place of Acceptance. It is the starting port of carrier’s project.
liability upon receipt of cargo from shippers.

Public Company | A company that has issued

Port | (a) Harbor with piers or dock. (b) Left side of a securities through a public offering, and whose
ship when facing the bow. (c) Opening in a ship’s side securities are traded on the open market.

for handling freight.
Q

Port of Arrival | Location where imported merchandise

is off-loaded from the importing aircraft or vessel.

Quarantine | The period during which a vessel is
Port of Call | A port where a vessel discharges or detained in isolation until free from any contagious

receives trafic.
disease among the passengers or crew. The word

is now applied to the sanitary regulations, which are
Port of Entry | A port where cargo and containers the modern substitute for quarantine. During the

destined elsewhere are actually discharged from a quarantine period, the Q lag is hoisted.

vessel.
Quarantine Buoy | One of the yellow buoys at

Port of Discharge (POD) | The port at which cargo the entrance of a harbor indicating the place where

or containers are unloaded from a vessel. When vessels must anchor for the exercise of quarantine
transshipment is needed, there can be a number of regulations.

PODs during the course of shipment until it reaches the

inal POD.
Quarantine Declaration | A document signed by the
captain and the ship’s doctor before the port health

Port of Loading (P.O.L) | The port at which cargo or oficer when a ship arrives at the quarantine station. It

containers are loaded onto vessels.
gives the name of the ship, tonnage, number of crew,
irst port of voyage and date of sailing, intermediate

Pre-Arrival Processing System (PAPS) | An portscalled,numberofpassengersfortheportatwhich

electronic system that allows U.S. Customs to review the vessel is arriving, number of transit passengers,
and pre-release shipments for import into the U.S.
cases of infectious diseases during voyage, deaths,

nature of cargo, and name of agents. The port health

Pre-Arrival Review System (PARS/INPARS) |
oficer then proceeds with the medical inspection of
Available both at the border and inland (INPARS). An passengers and crew. Also called ‘Entry Declaration’.

electronic system that allows CCRA to review and pre-

release shipments for import into Canada.
Quarantine Dues | A charge against all vessels
entering a harbor to provide for the maintenance of

medical control service. Also called “Quarantine Fees.”

118
JN+A and HVS DESIGN | HOTEL COST ESTIMATING GUIDE 2017