The illuminating power of a standard candle employed as a unit for determining the illuminating quality of an illuminant.

Free In/Liner Out. Seafreight with which the shipper pays load costs and the carrier pays for discharge costs.

Panamax ships are all ships that comply with the size and draft limitations of the existing (old) locks; namely, length 294.13m by 32.31m in breadth by 12.04 fresh water draft.

Retention of property until outstanding dept is paid

Installations character for Cargo Handling Appliances.

Consignments of cargo sent abroad in a ship to be sold or bartered by the master to best advantage or when the opportunity arises.

Norway (Flag)

A system that records the consumption of electricity, gas, water, etc, and sends the data to a central data accumulation device.

In a ship with multiple cabins, the cabin closest to the stern.

A method of streamflow routing which assumes that storage is a linear function of the weighted flow in the reach and is adaptable to a simple mathematical solution.

A written receipt in full, in discharge from all claims.

When the draft of a ship fore and aft are the same. Floating level (no list).

The ratio of the average load on (or power output of) a generating unit or system to the capacity rating of the unit or system over a specified period of time.

Part Cargo

The relationship which the return on a stock has with the return on the market as a whole, often.

A ladder of rope with rungs, used over the side.

General name for an instrument which measures the evaporation rate of water into the atmosphere. See clay atmometer, evaporation pan, evapotranspirometer, Livingston sphere, Piche evaporimeter, radio atmometer.

Heavy roll to leeward with a beam wind.

Tropical Deadweight

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