A classification that represents ease or difficulty of loading and carrying the freight is assigned to the items. Liability: Liability is probability of freight theft or damage, or damage to adjacent freight.
Definition of banana republic. : a small dependent country usually of the tropics; especially : one run despotically.
Sandwiched between Nicaragua to the south and Guatemala to the north, Honduras has the dubious distinction of being the original banana republic, a term coined by the American writer William Sydney Porter, known by his pen name O. Henry, who fled there in the 1890s to escape embezzlement charges.