Abbreviation for "Please Authorize Delivery Against Guarantee." A request from the consignee to the shipper to allow the carrier or agent to release cargo against a guarantee, either bank or personal. Made when the consignee is unable to produce original ...

Abbreviation for "Government Bill of Lading."

A protective or decorative nonmetallic coating produced in silo by chemical reaction of a metal with a chosen environment. It is often used to prepare the surface prior to the application of an organic coating.

Load On Top

A general handyman in the engine room.

Usually refers to intracity hauling on drays or trucks.

National Fluid Power Association.

Method of producing a chart in which the parallels of latitude and the meridians of longitude intersect each other at right angles.

Net borrowings of a company divided by shareholders' funds. The ratio shows the amount of.

Drydocking, beaching, or careening a vessel and carefully examining the bottom with a view to ascertaining any damage it may have.

Gilts are fixed income or index-linked bonds issued by the UK Government.

Maritime Mobile Service Identity. New compulsory code to identify vessels with the GMDSS/DSC system.

The opening up the back (aft) edge of the mast in which the mainsail luff rope slides when it is hoisted. Some masts have an external sail track.

Opposite of absorption or adsorption. In filtration, it relates to the downstream release of particles previously retained by the filter.

A corporation, person, agency, authority or other legal entity that owns and/or operates facilities for the generation, transmission, distribution or sale of electricity primarily for use by the public.

A measure of the average amount of a specified pollutant or material emitted for a specific type of fuel or process.

The rate of flow of the wind undisturbed by obstacles.

An instrument for the measurement of the radon content of the atmosphere.

An instrument for measuring radiant energy. See actinometer, Dines radiometer, photometer, Tulipian radiometer.

A spread strategy that decreases the account's cash balance when it is established. A bull spread.