Total Calculated Volume

Low Water Ordinary Near Tides.

Auxiliary Water-Tube Boiler Survey.

American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations

Facilitation Committee (IMO)

Admiralty Raster Chart Service (U.K. Hydrographic office)

1.Constructive Total Loss. After an incident such as collision, grounding, fire, if it is too expensive to repair the ship cannot, the insurance consider it is lost. The vessel is abandoned or sold as scrap.2.Coastal Trade Limit service.

Vapor Recovery System

Broken Up.

Germanischer Lloyd (German Class Society)

Light Displacement Ton

International Bulk Chemical CodeCode for the construction and equipment of ships carrying dangerous chemicals in bulk. (Often wrongly defined in BA publications and charts as International Bulk Carrier code)

Annual Machinery Survey.

Automatic Radar Plotting Aid

Visual Display Unit

British Marine Equipment Association

Client Account Management System.

Free of Capture and SeizureInsurance term. Used until 1982 in all marine insurance contracts to refer to the war exclusion clause. Discontinued in the UK cargo insurance market in 1982 and in the hull insurance market in 1983 (BIMCO).

American Society for Engineering Education.

Anchor Handling Purposes.