Estimated Time of DepartureEstimated time of departure of the vessel. Does not necessarily coincide with the time of completion for the reasons evoked here above, or because the ship has to wait for another reason: tide, daylight,...

Antwerp-Hamburg Range

1.Cash Against Documents.2.Computer Aided Design

The circular part of a shroud or stay, where it goes over a mast. Eye-bolt. A long iron bar, having an eye at one end, driven through a vessel's deck or side into a timber or beam, with the eye remaining out, to hook a tackle to. If there is a ring throug ...

1. Loose, not on moorings or towline.2.Floating at random; not fastened by and kind of mooring; at the mercy of winds and currents; loose from normal anchorage. A vessel is said to be adrift when she breaks away from her moorings, warfs, and so on. t – ...

Macroscopic progression marks on a fatigue fracture or stress-corrosion cracking surface that indicate successive positions of the advancing crack front. The classic appearance is of irregular elliptical or semielliptical rings, radiating outward from one ...

A small pier that projects from a larger pier.

Single Buoy Mooring

U.S. Customs' "Automated Broker Interface," by which brokers file importers' entries electronically.

Liner In Free Out

A layer consisting of a mixture of calcium carbonate and magnesium hydroxide deposited on surfaces being cathodically protected because of the increased pH adjacent to the protected surface.

Butane, See C4H10

Bulk Carrier, Equipped for Carriage of Rice.

The strake next to the keel (running fore and aft).

Bundle.

To let out a line

Aids to Navigation Information System.

A device to attach oars to a rowboat, allowing the operator to row rather than paddle the boat.

Average Freight Rate Assessment

See instrument error, observational error. random error, standard error, systematic error.