A unit measure of electrical conduction. The facility with which a substance conducts electricity, as represented by the current density per unit electrical-potential gradient in the direction of flow. Electrical conductivity is the reciprocal of electric ...

Refrigerated Cargo Ship or Container

A landing wharf or pier; a dike at a river s mouth.

A river, canal or other body of water that boats can travel on.

A building architectural element (vestibule) with two airtight doors that reduces the amount of air infiltration and exfiltration when the exterior most door is opened.

International Convention on the Arrest of Seagoing Ships1952 Allows the creditors of shipping debts to present his claim in any country signatory of the convention, and arrest the vessel if needed

kilo Volts Amps

In the direction from which the wind is blowing.

A general term for instruments designed to measure the speed or force of the wind.

An anchor engine used for heaving in the chain cable and anchor.

A cargo consolidator in ocean trades who will buy space from a carrier and subsell it to smaller shippers. The NVOCC issues bills of lading, publishes tariffs and otherwise conducts itself as an ocean common carrier, except that it will not provide the ac ...

Institute of Civil Engineers

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A strongly alkaline solution into which metal is immersed for etching. for neutralizing acid, or for removing organic materials such as greases or paints.

It used to be the case that you could only receive your pension from a personal pension plan by.

Capital Construction Fund: A tax benefit for operators of U.S.-built, U.S.-flag ships in the U.S. foreign, Great Lakes, or noncontiguous domestic trades, by which taxes may be deferred on income deposited in a fund to be used for the replacement of vessel ...

See 'reversionary.

Plating with dummy cathodes.

Corrosion resulting from an electrochemical cell caused by a thermal gradient.

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