Annual Load Line Inspection.

Activate, Activation

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

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)

A compartment in which fuel is stored; fuel consumed by the engines of a ship

A case hardening process in which a suitable ferrous material is heated above the lower transformation temperature in a gaseous atmosphere of such composition as to cause simultaneous absorption of carbon and nitrogen by the surface and, by diffusion, cre ...

Low Water Ordinary Near Tides.

Total Calculated Volume

A reaching headsail that has a big draft and is usually light-weight

Embrittlement of low-carbon steels resulting from precipitation of solute carbon at existing dislocations and from precipitation hardening of the steel caused by differences in the solid solubility of carbon in ferrite at different temperatures. Quench-ag ...

American Petroleum Institute

The utilization of solar energy through photosynthesis.

American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations

Light Displacement Ton

Arranges shipments for customers usually break bulk. Does not actually carry the cargo or conduct business for the ship.

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

Auxiliary Water-Tube Boiler Survey.

A device used to control the voltage in a fluorescent lamp.

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

Broken Up.