Insurance which pays benefits in the event of an accident. Items typically covered are medical.

Charterparty or Charter Party

International Aeronautical and Maritime Search and Rescue Manual

A term used in company accounts where income is due or a cost is incurred during an accounting.

Breathing air

A material that extracts one or more substances from a fluid (gas or liquid) medium on contact, and which changes physically and/or chemically in the process. The less volatile of the two working fluids in an absorption cooling device.

Hull and Machinery

Overseas Private Investment Corporation.

Quadruple Screw

Eastern Dredging Association

Also 'account payee only'. Words written on the face of a cheque between two parallel diagonal.

A multipurpose ship that can carry ore, heavy dry bulk goods and oil. Although more expensive to build, they ultimately are more economical because they can make return journeys with cargo rather than empty as single-purpose ships often must.

Pipes made of heavy cast iron or steel through which the anchor chain runs; placed in the ship's bow on each side of the stem, or in some cases also at the stern when a stern anchor is used.

Maintenance And Repair

A film on a metal surface resulting from an electrolytic treatment at the anode..

Electrode reaction equivalent to a transfer of positive charge from the electronic to the ionic conductor. An anodic reaction is an oxidation process. An example common in corrosion is: Me -> Me(+n) + n(e-)

Abbreviation for "Uniform Freight Classification."

Azimuthing Stern Drive.

A statement by a commodity broker to a client when a futures transaction is closed out. Sometimes.

A partially raised deck over the engine and boiler rooms, always around the smokestack, to let the hot air and fumes escape.