The senior engineer officer responsible for the satisfactory working and upkeep of the main and auxiliary machinery and boiler plant on board ship.

ISO.

A set of radio, sound, and visual signals designed to aid in communications between vessels without language problems. It can be used with Morse Code, with signal pennants, and by spoken code letters.

The stationary seating surface, the inlet of a valve.

A written contract between the owner of a vessel and the person desiring to employ the vessel (charterer); sets forth the terms of the arrangement such as duration of agreement, freight rate and ports involved in the trip.

A person or firm performing a consolidation service for others. The consolidator takes advantage of lower full carload (FCL) rates, and savings are passed on to shippers.

The document required by the carrier or freight forwarders to obtain (besides the data needed) authorization to issue and sign the air waybill in the name of the shipper.

That part of the water which is diverted from the main stream of a current and as a result flows in the opposite direction.

Small, circular sheets of newly-formed ice that do not impede navigation.

A large balloon shaped lightweight sail used when running or reaching. Spinnakers are made of cloth very similar to that used for parachutes, which is why you may also hear them called chutes, or kites.

The internal duct and filter medium support

In maritime warfare, a declaration published by a power forbidding sea-borne trade with an enemy.

ACRONYM - Compressed natural gas, primarily methane.

A severe type of food poisoning caused by eating contaminated fish

A low vertical lip or raised section around the edge of a cockpit, hatch, etc. to prevent water on deck from running below.

An organization established by the members of an ocean conference acts as a self-policing force with broad authority to investigate tariff violations, including authority to scrutinize all documents kept by the carriers and their personnel. Violations are ...

A line drawn on a chart, as a result of a bearing, along which the boat is positioned

The anti-corrosive paint used on and above the waterline.

Specially designed for the transport of chemicals.

States that the volume of a gas, at constant pressure, varies directly with the absolute temperature.