COM

1) Customer order management. Development in logistics where suppliers not only deliver to specific customer order, but also proactively anticipate and action order demand.

Collapsible containers

1) Freight containers, usually built of wood, which can be folded down into a flat pack for ease of transport prior to and after use.

Cold chain

1) Term used in refrigerated food storage/transport to indicate the complete ‘chain’ of operations from original production to the retailer’s display.

COI

1) Central Office of Information. Government department dispensing official information.

CoF

1) Certificate of fitness. Applicable to passenger vehicles under the Public Service Vehicle (Conditions of Fitness, Equipment, Use and Certification) Regulations 1981 - as amended.

Coach

1) A passenger vehicle constructed to carry more than 16 people besides the driver, weighing more than 7.5 tonnes gross weight and capable of exceeding 60 mph. The term usually implies a vehicle more comfortably furnished than the spartan fittings found in most service buses.