What is a 'Free Carrier - FCA'. A free carrier (FCA) is a trade term designating the location the seller is to deliver goods. Most often, the destination is a named airport, terminal or other place where the carrier operates. The cost for transportation is included in the price set by the seller, and the risk of loss is initially on the seller, transferring to the buyer upon delivery to the carrier.
The second is also the base unit of time in other systems of measurement: the centimetre-gram-second, metre-kilogram-second, metre-tonne-second, and foot-pound-second systems of units.n 1956, the second was redefined in terms of a year (the period of the Earth 's revolution around the Sun) for a particular epoch because, by then, it had become recognized that the Earth's rotation on its own axis was not sufficiently uniform as a standard of time.
Watch out, Chicago -- there's a new Second City in America. Recognizing Washington's economic power and national importance, an article in the Winter 2013 issue of City Journal crowns D.C. America's real Second City. The so-called artificial capital outperformed its peer cities on a number measures during the first decade of the 21st century: