FOB stands for "freight on board." The term is used to describe the point in a transaction where a product being shipped becomes the property of the buyer. In an FOB Origin shipping arrangement, the ...

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"FOB" was originally an ocean-freight acronym. Once the freight passed beyond this boundary of the ship's rail and moved onto the vessel, the seller had completed all of its delivery obligations to ...