Transportation from one city to another as differentiated from local switching service.

A cargo movement in which the water carrier provides a through service between an inland point and the port of load/discharge. The carrier is responsible for cargo and costs from origin on to destination. Also known as IPI or Through Service.

A metallic pad, usually embedded in concrete, on which the compressor feet are mounted.

A rope passed around (center) a boat or other object for hanging.

The part of the rope or line, between the end and the standing part, on which a knot is formed.

The lower yard on a mizzen mast of a square-rigged ship.

(1) An engine. (2) The act of using an engine to move a boat.

A laborer who works at loading and discharging cargo.

There is no such thing on a boat! See Fender.

The space between the two sides of the shell of a block in which the sheave is fitted.

Condition that exists when the air, gas, or fluid normally passing through an element is being shunted around the element.

The fluid entering a component.

A small receiver fitted on the inlet or discharge of a reciprocating compressor. The device is designed to remove the resonance from the compressor thereby reducing noise.

Is a pipe extending downward from the bottom of the airline to collect any condensation flow in the pipe.

The practice of obtaining a crew by means of force. Crews were hard to get for long voyages, and when the unwilling shipmate regained consciousness, he found himself bound for some remote port, such as Shanghai. One who is forced to do something against h ...

Above the main deck.

The direction of an object from the observer's position.

Small sea that rises just above bows or gunwale.

An automatic or manual valve that causes the flow to be by passed.

The wooden bit in the stem of a whaling boat around which the harpoon line was controlled.