P and I Oil Pollution Indemnity Clause

International Noxious Liquid Substances

Pitting resulting from ablation, outgassing or meteor contact.

The raising of new money by a company in order to pay off existing debt. more

The accelerated deterioration at the interface between contacting surfaces as the result of corrosion and slight oscillatory movement between the two surfaces; Deterioration at the interface between two contacting surfaces accelerated by relative motion b ...

A narrow zone in a metal corresponding to the transition from one crystallographic orientation to another, thus separating one grain from another; the atoms in each grain are arranged in an orderly pattern; the irregular junction of two adjacent grains is ...

Standards For Training Certification and Watchkeeping (IMO Convention)

Ship's boat kept ready for immediate lowering while at sea. When used for life-saving, it was called an "accident boat" or lifeboat.

Column.

Electronic Supply Fund Reporting System.

Marine Industries Forum (EC)

(See Rina)

Special Intermediate Survey

See Insurance, Particular Average.

A diagram showing the intensity of the radiation field in all directions from a transmitting radio or radar antenna at a given distance from the antenna.

The ratio of a boiler's or gasifier's maximum output to its minimum output.

On or in a ship.

A party responsible for the payment as evidenced by the given instrument. Under letters of credit, the payer is the party on whom the draft is drawn, usually the drawee bank.

Said of a vessel when caught between ice on both sides.