An in-house bill of lading. A duplicate copy.

Gallons per minute

Cargo containing shipments of two or more shippers or suppliers. Containerload shipments may be consolidated for one or more consignees.

The day on which the availability of a prospectus is advertised, and a flotation is officially.

The process of managing the consumption of energy, generally to optimize available and planned generation resources.

Steering; keeping the ship on the course given (no lazy steering).

Is any gas or gas mixture in which one or more of the constituents is at its saturated vapor pressure. The constituent at saturation pressure may or may not be water vapor.

Assault upon a seaman, by Master, while at sea.

The sovereign power to take property for a necessary public use, with reasonable compensation.

Resource Conservation and Recovery Act.

Ribbon, yarn, or other lightweight material attached to rigging or sails to indicate wind action or direction. Proper use of the telltales can help sailors improve their sail trim.

Site planning that accounts for natural solar heating and cooling processes and their relationship to building shape, orientation, and siting.

A demand by a company to shareholders to pay a further instalment on partly paid.

The ratio of the existing amount of water vapor in the air at a given temperature to the maximum amount that could exist at that temperature. Usually expressed in percent.

Ice pack whose limits cannot be seen from ship.

A galvanic cell resulting from inhomogeneities between areas on a metal surface in an electrolyte. The inhomogeneities may be of physical or chemical nature in either the metal or its environment.

A graph representing the relationship between the power available from the wind and the wind speed. The power from the wind increases proportionally with the cube of the wind speed.

A train of a specified number of railcars, perhaps 100, which remain as a unit for a designated destination or until a change in routing is made.

An experimental technique where by an electrode is maintained at a constant current in an electrolyte.

Stock in companies whose profits move in a cyclical manner, normally in phase with the economy. .