Offshore Engineering Department.

One quadrillion Btu. (1,000,000,000,000,000 Btu)

Maritime Systems Technology program (U.S.)

An up slope wind due to local surface heating. Opposite of katabatic wind.

Energy required to operate mechanical components of an energy system, or a source of energy or energy supply system to back-up another.

International Lifeboat Federation

Taxes which are charged as a percentage of the value of an asset. Stamp Duty, which is charged on.

Inboard

Two metals of different coefficients of expansion welded together so that the piece will bend in one direction when heated, and in the other when cooled, and can be used to open or close electrical circuits, as in thermostats.

A business operated by an agent in conjunction with his/her.

Nippon Kaiji Kyokai (Japanese Class Society)

Can occur any time warm, moist air blows over a surface cool enough to drop it's temperature below the dew point.

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development

One carrier assumes the charges of another without any increase in charges to the shipper.

Ship supplies.

A thermodynamic cycle using constant pressure, heat addition and rejection, representing the idealized behavior of the working fluid in a gas turbine type heat engine.

One or more anodes installed vertically at a nominal depth of 15 m (50 ft) or more below the earth's surface in a drilled hole for the purpose of supplying cathodic protection for an underground or submerged metallic structure. See also groundbed.

Tons Per Centimeter (Immersion)

Is the force in newton required to move a fluid layer of one square meter area and a thickness of one meter with a velocity of one meter per second.

Ports and Waterways Safety Act.