Freight Booking 
Order for which execution is planned by a carrier, for example, a shipowner. The freight booking contains the plan for the logistical processing, for example, fixed departure times of the ship.
You use a freight booking to reserve freight space on a ship or in an airplane. The freight booking is also the document for the actual execution.
You define the most important settings for the freight booking in the freight booking type. Furthermore, you specify the transportation mode, for example, air, for which a freight booking is to be used. For more information, see Customizing for Transportation Management under 
Freight Order Management 
Freight Booking Define Freight Booking Types 
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For more information about creating freight bookings, see Creation and Editing of Freight Bookings.
If you have entered geography and times in your sea freight booking, you can perform carrier selection (see Carrier Selection). In this case, the system looks for the most suitable carriers, taking into account transportation allocations.
You can use SAP Event Management to track and monitor freight booking events (see Tracking of Freight Orders and Freight Bookings).
You can use the change controller to define how the system is to react to changes (see Change Controller).
Note
Separate user interfaces are available for both sea freight bookings and air freight bookings. The following special user interfaces are also available:
User interfaces for management of air freight bookings for airlines (see Management of Air Freight Bookings for Airlines)
User interface for management of loose cargo (only for ocean freight bookings; see Creation and Editing of Freight Bookings)
Structure
Freight bookings contain the following information:
General data
Business partner
Locations and dates/times
At stage level you can enter one-time locations and additional addresses (one-time addresses). The system stores these new locations and addresses and adjusts stages in the document. It also adjusts the locations or addresses in the assigned requirements (freight units).
NoteHowever, you should continue to make changes to existing locations in the master data.
End of the note.Transportation stages
Here the system displays times, locations and their sequence, as well as transit countries, among other things. You can add transportation stages, for example, in order to add another port between New York and Amsterdam.
In addition, you can add transportation stages between the pick-up location and the port of loading or between the port of discharge and the delivery location. This means that there can be several pre-carriage transportation stages and several on-carriage transportation stages. However, you cannot use these additional transportation stages to model a multiple pick-up scenario. Instead, you can only model locations, at which additional activities (such as weighing) are to be executed. The freight unit transportation stage remains unchanged. Another option is to add locations on the Overview tab.
NoteThe Stages tab is only available for ocean freight bookings. You can find information about air freight bookings under Carrier Routing.
End of the note.Document dependencies as well as predecessor and successor documents (document flow)
Information about transportation charges (see Charge Calculation)
Cargo Management (see Cargo Management)
The following information is displayed here:
Quantities and weights (see Quantities and Capacities)
Goods information (see Goods Information)
Corresponding freight orders (see Pick-up and Delivery Freight Orders)
Service Orders (see Service Order)
Dangerous goods information (see Considering Dangerous Goods).
Seal information (see Use of Seals)
Information about foreign trade (see Integration with SAP Global Trade Services)
House Bill of Lading (Ocean Freight) or Air Waybill (Air Freight)
For more information, see Building and Printing of House Bills of Lading and House Air Waybills.
Capacity Requirements
Information about output management (for example, print documents)
As a prerequisite, you have configured the settings for output management in the freight booking type (for example, output profile) For more information, see Printing.
Transportation dependencies, in other words, logistical dependencies such as related freight orders (sea freight bookings only)
Information about the carrier ranking (sea freight bookings only)
Status information and blocking information (see Statuses of Business Documents and Blocking Information)
Other information
Attachments
Notes
Document references (in other words, additional external references)
Change documents (see Change Tracking)