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

American Petroleum Institute

Total Calculated Volume

Auxiliary Water-Tube Boiler Survey.

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)

Low Water Ordinary Near Tides.

Broken Up.

Facilitation Committee (IMO)

Light Displacement Ton

Knots. The speed of the ship in nautical miles per hour (1.852 km/h or 101.3ft/minute)

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.

British Marine Equipment Association

Vapor Recovery System

1.All purposes.2.Additional premium.3.Accounts payable

Automatic Radar Plotting Aid

Germanischer Lloyd (German Class Society)

Annual Machinery Survey.

American Society for Engineering Education.

Client Account Management System.

Anchor Handling Purposes.