Estimated Time of ReadinessTime at which the ship will be ready to load, for instance when the crew has to clean the holds first.

Annual Cargo Refrigeration System survey.

Water Ballast

Demolished

Days All Purposes

Antwerp Hamburg Range

Automated Mutual Assistance Vessel Rescue System (USA).

Bulgarian Lloyd (Class Society)

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.

Marine Custody Transfer

Association of Mechanical Engineers.

Latitude

Continuous Survey of Hull

Tons Per Inch (Immersion)

In Lieu of Dry Dock, Class survey, mostly underwater, which allows the shipowner to postpone a dry dock.

Bulk Carrier Strengthened for Heavy Cargoes, Nos 1&3 Holds may be empty.

Hydrostatic Balanced Loading. Method of loading large oil tankers which allows to extends the lives of tankers from 25 to 30 years with regard to MARPOL phase-out provision.

1.Marine Evacuation System.2.Mobile Earth Station

General Conditions

Bahamas Oil Refining Corp.