Safety lines, usually of flat webbing, that run along the deck between bow and stern used to attach a tether from a safety harness.

Eastern Dredging Association

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.

Maintenance And Repair

Delivered Duty Unpaid Delivered duty unpaid means that the seller delivers the goods to the buyer, not cleared for import, and not unloaded from any arriving means of transport at the named place of destination. The seller has to bear the costs and risks ...

F3C Radio transmission designator.Facsimile transmission using frequency modulation, with a single channel containing analogue information.(ALRS)

A dividend which is due to holders of cumulative preference shares but which has not yet been paid. .

Benefits earned by an employee in respect of his/her pension based on years of service with his/her.

A hydrometeor consisting of a visible aggregate of minute water and/or ice particles in the atmosphere above the earth's surface. Cloud differs from fog only in that the latter is, by definition, in contact with the earth's surface.

Quadruple Screw

Cost, Insurance & Freight

Center Aft

J3E Radio transmission designatorTelephony using amplitude modualtion; single-sideband, suppressed carrier. (ALRS)

The gradual degradation or alteration of a material by contact with substances present in the atmosphere, such as oxygen. carbon dioxide, water vapor, and sulfur and chlorine compounds.

Breathing air

A self-recording instrument used on aircraft for the simultaneous recording of atmospheric pressure, temperature, and humidity.

(1) The backbone of a vessel, running fore and aft along the center line of the bottom of the hull; the timber at the very bottom of the hull to which frames are attached. (2) A flat surface built into the bottom of the boat to prevent or reduce the leewa ...

Bill of Lading

Forming a conversion coating on a metal surface by anodic oxidation; most frequently applied to aluminum.

National Motor Freight Classification.