Abbreviation for "General Department Store Merchandise." A classification of commodities that includes goods generally shipped by mass-merchandise companies. This commodity structure occurs only in service contracts.

The area of the bow or stern projecting above and beyond a perpendicular from the water line at stem or stern.

European Currency Unit.

Kilowatt

Vinyl Chloride Monomer. Gas occasionaly carried by LPG tankers. Highly cancerogen, heard that the German allows a crew to carry the gas only once in their carreer. Classified as flamable, toxic and polymerizable.

The U.S. Customs' "Automated Manifest System."

Place where crew is accommodated.

Oil Pollution.

Tanker Fresh Water.

A person trained and specialising in risk, statistics and finance who gives advice on insurance and.

Construction made by placing several platform flats end to end in a ship.

The underside of the deck, viewed from below the ceiling.

Operator of Uninspected Passenger Vessels.

Inert Gas. Non reactive gas (Nitrogen, CO2) used to fill the tanks to prevent an accidental fire or explosion.

(See EUVROU.)

Enhanced Group Call

Underwriters Laboratories

Low Pressure

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

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