– A portable ladder hinged to a platform attached to the side of a ship and which can be positioned to provide access between ship and shore. Telescopic accommodation ladder is used for covering a long distance between the vessel and port quay. According ...

Energy storage using electrochemical batteries. The three main applications for battery energy storage systems include spinning reserve at generating stations, load leveling at substations, and peak shaving on the customer side of the meter.

ZERNOCON. Old code name for charter parties relating to grain cargoes from Russian, Black sea and Azoff ports to UK. (Kerchove)

Knots. The speed of the ship in nautical miles per hour (1.852 km/h or 101.3ft/minute)

Fuel Adjustment Factor

Bonaire Petroleum Corporation N.V.

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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 ...

A receding current.

Old term for the galley of a vessel situated normally on the deck and not between decks.

British Oil Spill Control Association

The amount of energy (in electron volts) required to free an outer shell electron from its orbit about the nucleus to a free state, and thus promote it from the valence to the conduction level.

Anemometer which generates an electrical contact output with a frequency proportional to wind speed.

Business Planning and Analysis Group.

In physics, the concept that as the speed of a moving fluid (liquid or gas) increases, the pressure within that fluid decreases. Originally formulated in 1738 by the Swiss mathematician and physicist Daniel Bernoulli, it states that the total energy in a ...

Association of Shipbrokers and Agents (U.S.A.) Inc.

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