Export Administration Act

IADC International Association of Dredging (also Diving) Contractors

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

Quality Steering Committee.

A discharge limit applied to manufacturing and commercial establishments in which only normal human sanitary wastewaters may be discharged to the municipal sewerage system. All other types of wastewater, such as that water used in manufacturing processes, ...

Volume flow rate measured in liters per second

The combination of a life assurance policy and an annuity on the same life the purpose of which.

Revenue per day

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.

United Kingdom Association of Private Terminal Operators

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

Clause in a voyage charter party which relieve the charterer of all responsibility one the cargo has been shipped.

International Association of Maritime Institutes

A pleasure vessel, a pleasure boat; in American usage the idea of size and luxury is conveyed, either sail or power.

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

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Pushing and Towing Purposes.

An index representing the cost of time chartering a tanker for a specific voyage at a given time. The index is given at Worldscale 100, which represents the price in dollars per ton for carrying the oil at that rate. The negotiated rate will be some perce ...

A measurement. Outside diameter.

Society of Automotive Engineers.