UN/LOCODE US JFK identifies John F. Kennedy Apt/New York, NY, United States of America. UNECE classifies it as airport. Below: the classifiers, the location reference, the CBP entry code where CBP publishes one, and the Airlift ocean freight lanes serving United States of America.
UN/LOCODEUS JFK
Place nameJohn F. Kennedy Apt/New York
CountryUnited States of America (US)
SubdivisionNY
Function classifiersAirportcode list string ---4----
Carriers print the port of loading and port of discharge on bookings and bills of lading as UN/LOCODEs, so USJFK is what you will normally see against John F. Kennedy Apt/New York on carrier paperwork and in schedule and tracking feeds. The first two characters, US, are the ISO 3166-1 country code for United States of America; the remaining three identify the place within it.
A UN/LOCODE names a place, not a berth. Where a port city runs several container terminals, UNECE often assigns the terminals their own codes alongside the city code — which is why a booking can legitimately show a code you did not expect. Take the code from the carrier booking rather than picking the one that reads most like the port name.
John F. Kennedy Apt/New York carries the airport classifier in UN/LOCODE, but the code list does not supply an IATA code for it. We do not infer one: the last three characters of a UN/LOCODE often match the IATA code but are not required to, and a wrong code on an air waybill is expensive. Take the IATA code from your airline or forwarder.
Airlift ocean freight lanes serving United States of America
Lane guides carry the port pairs Airlift actually moves, typical schedule-dependent transit ranges drawn from our own shipment history, commodity notes and customs requirements.
The UN/LOCODE for John F. Kennedy Apt/New York, NY, United States of America is USJFK, printed as US JFK. The first two characters (US) are the ISO country code and the last three identify the location. Source: UNECE UN/LOCODE Code List, edition 2024-2.
Location data: UNECE UN/LOCODE Code List, edition 2024-2 — public data published by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UN/CEFACT). UN/LOCODE code list.
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