Vessels operating on fixed itineraries or regular schedules and established rates available to all shippers. The freight rates which are charged are based on the shipping company's tariff or if the company is a member of a liner conference, the tariff of ...

The process of converting materials that are no longer useful as designed or intended into a new product.

Threshold stress for stress-corrosion-cracking. The critical gross section stress at the onset of stress-corrosion cracking under specified conditions.

To pass a turn around a belaying pin or cleat.

A small pointer extending downward from the top of the cistern of a Fortin barometer. The level of the mercury in the cistern is adjusted so that it just comes in contact with the end of the pointer, thus setting the zero of the barometric scale.

Coastal Trade limit service in Sabah and Sarawak.

(FICA)In the US, the federal law which directs employers to withhold a proportion of employees' salaries.

A mutual fund which invests in securities in countries around the world such as Europe, Asia and the.

Federation Of National Associations of Shipbrokers & Agents

Any small collar made with spunyarn or light line to hold something in place.

Local Trade limit Service.

A smooth hard wood grown in the West Indies which had many maritime uses, such as deadeyes and the sheaves of blocks. Its hardness stood up well to wear, and its smoothness allowed lines to render through easily.

Energy that comes from splitting atoms of radioactive materials, such as uranium, and which produces radioactive wastes.

Strop inserted between two hawsers, and weaker than the hawsers, so that strop, and not hawsers, will part with any excessive strain.

A municipal bond whose interest and principal payments are supported by the full faith and credit of.

See CERCLA

Royal Institute of Navigation

The smallest change in the environment that causes detectable change in the indication of an instrument. Compare to sensitivity.

A group of coating or welding processes in which finely divided metallic or nonmetallic materials are deposited in a molten or semimolten condition to form a coating. The coating material may be in the form of powder, ceramic rod, wire, or molten material ...

The region of an anodic polarization curve, noble to and; above the passive potential range, in which there is a significant increase in current density (increased metal dissolution) as the potential becomes more positive (noble).