Wind coming from the south.

An articulated five-platform rail car that allows containers to be double stacked. A typical stack car holds ten 40-foot equivalent units (FEU's).

Length of chain used for putting around logs or steel products.

Along or around a coast.

To put out a mooring, hawser or line from a ship to a point of attachment outside her.

Mobile Satellite Services.

A financial services sales rep, authorised to give financial advice on life assurance, pensions.

The ship's funnel or smokestack.

Compressors in which successive volumes of air or gas are confined within a closed space, and compressed. They may be either reciprocating or rotating. (Trap air and then squeeze it to the desired pressure).

A futures expression which refers to a range of closely allied prices at which transactions were.

Liquidation of a company brought about by a court order, usually as the result of a petition by an.

The act of supporting anything by propping or shoring it up.

Statement on the condition of the vessel. The sufficiency of a vessel in materials, construction, equipment, crew and outfit for the trade in which it is employed. Any sort of disrepair to the vessel by which the cargo may suffer, overloading, untrained o ...

A raised portion of the hull forward of the cockpit intended to prevent water entering.

The quantity of heat required to raise the temperature of a unit weight of a substance by one degree.

Articles packed so that one rests partially or entirely within another, thereby reducing the cubic-foot displacement.

An articulated five-platform railcar. Used where height and weight restrictions limit the use of stack cars. It holds five 40-foot containers or combinations of 40- and 20-foot containers.

Same as two blocks.

Abbreviation for "Bales."

States that the volume of a gas, at constant pressure, varies directly with the absolute temperature.