Vehicles/Bulk Cargoes Carrier.

ABS Quality Evaluations.

Motor Vessel (Diesel)

Abbreviation for "Weight or Measurement;" the basis for assessing freight charges. Also known as "worm." The rate charged under W/M will be whichever produces the highest revenue between the weight of the shipment and the measure of the shipment. ...

Damage

Stairway of inclined or vertical steps on board ship.

Qatar (Flag)

A device used by oceanographers to obtain subsurface samples of sea water. The "bottle" is lowered by wire, its valves open at both ends. It is then closed in situ by allowing a weight (called a messenger) to slide down the wire and strike the reversing m ...

UK Pilots Association (Marine).

Charterer's Option

National Association of Corrosion Engineers.

Motor Vessel

The point of the celestial sphere which is directly overhead.

Environmental Coordinating Committee.

The temperature of pure melting ice under standard atmospheric pressure on the Centigrage and R

Towing and Salvage Purposes.

A document by which the Master of a ship acknowledges having received in good order and condition (or the reverse) certain specified goods consigned to him by some particular shipper, and binds himself to deliver them in similar condition, unless the peri ...

Friction against duct walls, internal friction in the air mass and direction variations will cause a speed reduction and are therefore called dynamic losses.

Executive Officer

UK Major Ports Group