Maritime Environment Protection CommitteeIMO branch dealing, among other, with the construction of tankers. The number of the meeting is often added to the acronym so that in the Autumn 2000 the next meeting will be MEPC46.

SAR Simulation Model

Best Manufacturing Practices.(US navy program).

International Maritime Organization.United Nation agency created the 6 March 1948, located in London and taking care of all shipping matters.

Watertight

A fixed-length group of bits representing the large data element handled as a unit by a computer. Word length is determined by the capacity of the CPU registers.

American Institute of Merchant Shipping.

Navigation Bridge Systems.

The play or loose motion in an instrument due to the clearance existing between mechanically contacting parts.

Tall and short waves caused by water current and wave directions being opposite to the direction of the wind.

British Rig Owners Association

Damages for Detention

Free Despatch

A surface weather observation, made at periodic times, of sky cover, state of the sky, cloud height, atmospheric pressure reduced to sea level, temperature, dew point, wind speed and direction. amount of precipitation, hydrometeors and lithometeors. and s ...

Vessel Safety and Operations Audit

Multipurpose Work Boat.

Federal Water Pollution Control Act

A small jib set high on the headstay of a double headsail rig.

A method to trap liquids or gases by causing them to penetrate into the absorbent material.

Same as electromotive force series.