On the operations desk, DPU shifts the unloading obligation and its risk onto the seller, so a forwarder arranging carriage and equipment at the named place must confirm that the seller, not the buyer, handles discharge from the arriving vehicle. The decision the term drives is who bears unloading at destination, which determines how the delivery point and risk transfer are quoted and which party books the unloading resources. The clean line is against DAP (Delivered at Place), where the goods are delivered ready for unloading and the buyer unloads, whereas under DPU the seller unloads. DPU is the rule formerly named DAT (Delivered at Terminal), renamed because the named place of destination need not be a terminal.
Glossary
DPU (Delivered at Place Unloaded)
Delivered at Place Unloaded (DPU) is the any-mode Incoterm under which the seller delivers when the goods, once unloaded from the arriving means of transport, are placed at the buyer's disposal at the named place of destination, and it is the only Incoterm that requires the seller to unload.