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Abbreviations

API

(See Measurement Definitions)

AR

Accounts Receivable.

ARA

Antwerp, Rotterdam, Amsterdam (range)

Amsterdam-Rotterdam-Antwerp-Gent Range

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

ARE

United Arab Emirates (flag)

Automated Requisition Management System.

ARO

Agreement on Rules of Origin. (GATT 1994)

Automated Radar Plotting Aid system to assist the watorchkeeper using the radar for collision prevention.

Advanced Research Projects Agency

Automatic Radar Plotting Aid

ARS

Annual Cargo Refrigeration System survey.

AS

Annual Survey

Association of Shipbrokers and Agents (U.S.A.) Inc.

A Type of Standard Voyage Charter Party Issued by ASBA

A Type of Standard Voyage Charter Party Issued by ASBA

ASD

Azimuthing Stern Drive.

American Society for Engineering Education.

ASF

Asian Shipowners Forum.

Association of Mechanical Engineers.