48 CFR · Federal Acquisition Regulation and Defense supplement

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The codified text (eCFR, as of 2026-10-02). Under the Revolutionary FAR Overhaul ↗, agencies follow class deviations with new text for many parts while the formal rules go through the Federal Register: check the solicitation and your contract's clauses, which rule.

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4 sections with “transshipment facilities”

  • FAR 47.301-3 Using the Defense Transportation System (DTS).
    …ernment contractors, through the use of military-controlled transport or through military transshipment facilities shall follow Department of Defense (DoD) Regulation DoD 4500.9-R, Defense Transportation Regulation Part II. This establishes…
  • FAR 47.304-5 Exceptions.
    …sportation required; (3) Availability of Government or commercial loading, unloading, or transshipment facilities; (4) Characteristics of the supplies; (5) Trade customs related to certain supplies; (6) Origins or destinations in Alaska…
  • FAR 47.305-7 Quantity analysis, direct delivery, and reduction of crosshauling and backhauling.
    … (c) Crosshauling and backhauling. The contracting officer shall select distribution and transshipment facilities intermediate to origins and ultimate destinations to reduce crosshauling and backhauling; i.e., the transportation of persona…
  • FAR 46.403 Government contract quality assurance at destination.
    …of shipment signed by the port transportation officer or other designated official at the transshipment point); (5) The products being purchased are processed under direct control of the National Institutes of Health or the Food and Drug A…

FAR (chapter 1)

DFARS (chapter 2, Defense)

Source: eCFR, 48 CFR chapters 1 and 2 (GPO GovInfo bulk data) ↗. Rule changes in progress: FAR, DFARS. Terms: glossary.