Quality Steering Committee.

A place for the reception, delivery, consolidation, distribution, and storage of goods/cargo.

Eskimo word for a light, covered-in canoe type boat.

Group of Seven Nations (United States, Canada, Japan, Britain, France, Germany, and Italy)

Lifting Appliance

Export Administration Act

A semiconductor (photovoltaic) device structure in which the junction is formed between a p-type layer and an n-type layer.

International Maritime Dangerous Goods Code. The regulations published by the IMO for transporting hazardous materials internationally.

IADC International Association of Dredging (also Diving) Contractors

Upper Flammable Limit

That which is loaded into a ship. The act of loading.

United Kingdom Association of Private Terminal Operators

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Electromagnetic radiation of very short wavelength. lying within the wavelength interval of 0.1 to 1.5 angstroms (between gamma rays and ultraviolet radiation). X-rays penetrate various thicknesses of all solids, and they act on photographic plates in the ...

Abbreviation for:- Sight draft.- Sea damage.

Abbreviation for "Independent Action." The right of a conference member to publish a rate of tariff rule that departs from the Agreement's common rate or rule.

Pushing and Towing Purposes.

The prefix placed before the name of a warship of the British Navy to indicate that she is Her (His) Majesty's ship.

Ratio of actual to theoretical corrosion based on the total current flow calculated by Faraday

Passenger/Training ship.