American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations

Low Water Ordinary Near Tides.

Ramp fitted to a RoRo ship situated at the rear of the ship.

(1) A cargo carrying vessel, usually without an engine, towed or pushed by a tug. Small barges for carrying cargo between ship and shore are known as lighters. (2) Also a term in sail racing - a boat which forces its way illegally between another contesta ...

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The utilization of solar energy through photosynthesis.

Final date for delivering cargo to a liner ships.

Auxiliary Water-Tube Boiler Survey.

Device that permits passage between regions of differing air pressures, most often used for passage between atmospheric pressure and chambers in which the air is compressed. A typical modern air lock consists of a cylinder of steel plate with airtight doo ...

Combination of two power plant turbine cycles utilizing two different working fluids for power production. The waste heat from the first turbine cycle provides the heat energy for the operation of the second turbine, thus providing higher overall system e ...

A discount allowed for damage or overcharge in the payment of a bill.

Facilitation Committee (IMO)

Vapor Recovery System

Admiralty Raster Chart Service (U.K. Hydrographic office)

1.Constructive Total Loss. After an incident such as collision, grounding, fire, if it is too expensive to repair the ship cannot, the insurance consider it is lost. The vessel is abandoned or sold as scrap.2.Coastal Trade Limit service.

International Bulk Chemical CodeCode for the construction and equipment of ships carrying dangerous chemicals in bulk. (Often wrongly defined in BA publications and charts as International Bulk Carrier code)

The order to go aloft (go up above).

Broken Up.

ZUMACA. Small sailing coaster from the River Plate estuary and the adjacent waters of Brazil. (Kerchove)

Measured from the most forward part of the fore end to the most after part of the after end of the hull.