U.S. Customs' "Automated Broker Interface," by which brokers file importers' entries electronically.

Timbers used to support bottom of ship while it is under construction.

Document given by authorities certifying that inward clearance formalities have been completed.

Is the saturation pressure at the critical temperature. It is the highest vapor pressure that the liquid can exert.

Activate, Activation

Is one that does not attack normal materials of construction.

A reaching headsail that has a big draft and is usually light-weight

Get away from the ship, as in an emergency.

A piece of wood placed across the head of a boat's rudder, with a rope attached to each end, by which the boat is steered.

The order to go aloft (go up above).

Measured from the most forward part of the fore end to the most after part of the after end of the hull.

1. Loose, not on moorings or towline.2.Floating at random; not fastened by and kind of mooring; at the mercy of winds and currents; loose from normal anchorage. A vessel is said to be adrift when she breaks away from her moorings, warfs, and so on. t – ...

The order to tack the ship

A discount allowed for damage or overcharge in the payment of a bill.

In physics, the concept that as the speed of a moving fluid (liquid or gas) increases, the pressure within that fluid decreases. Originally formulated in 1738 by the Swiss mathematician and physicist Daniel Bernoulli, it states that the total energy in a ...

Stand watch, during which they steer the vessel, stand lookout, assist the mate on watch and make rounds of the ship to insure that all is in order. They also tie up and untie the vessel to and from the dock and maintain the equipment on deck.

Ramp fitted to a RoRo ship situated at the rear of the ship.

Old term for the galley of a vessel situated normally on the deck and not between decks.

(1) A cargo carrying vessel, usually without an engine, towed or pushed by a tug. Small barges for carrying cargo between ship and shore are known as lighters. (2) Also a term in sail racing - a boat which forces its way illegally between another contesta ...

A compartment in which fuel is stored; fuel consumed by the engines of a ship