Code of Practice for the Safe Loading and Unloading of Bulk Carriers

Two half hitches around a spar or post. Easy way to make a line temporarily fast to a piling or post. The clove hitch can jam under heavy tension, making it difficult to untie. Worse, is its tendency to untie itself when subjected to repeated strain and r ...

A load sufficient in size to fill a container either by cubic measurement or by weight.

A stationary passage surrounding an impeller, in which velocity pressure imparted to the flow medium by the impeller is converted into static pressure.

A device used to collect, absorb, and transfer solar energy to a working fluid.

The annual dividend income per share received from a company divided by its current share price..

A lift truck fitted with lifting attachments operating to one side for handling containers.

Shipped under a rate that includes costs of delivery to and the loading onto a carrier at a specified point.

To go onboard, to go into a ship, or to gain access to a vessel.

A small wooden box, with lock and key, in which seamen keep sentimental valuables, stationery, and sundry small stores.

When U.S. Customs orders shipments without entries to be kept in their custody in a bonded warehouse.

The structure (in a residential heating appliance, industrial furnace, or power plant) into which combustion gases flow and are contained until they are emitted to the atmosphere.

A 19th century term for a yachtsman who sails his own yacht without the help of a professional skipper.

is one in which a portion of the original system energy is dissipated and cannot be returned to the system through its own operation. The system and/or surroundings cannot be returned to their original state.

Distinguishing flag of a merchant marine company flown from the mainmast of merchant ships.

The yield on a security purchased at a price below its face.

Ships time was counted by the half hour, starting at midnight. A half hour after twelve was one bell; one o'clock, two bells; and so on until four o'clock, which was eight bells. The counting then started over again, with 4

A purchase (block and tackle) for hoisting a boat to its davits.

Vertical frame components fitted at the corners of the container, integral to the corner fittings and connecting the roof and floor structures. Containers are lifted and secured in a stack using the castings at the ends.