Towards the center line of a ship (towards the center).

Heat cannot, of itself, pass from a colder to a hotter body.

A device for mounting cylinders.

Business pertaining to commerce or navigation transacted upon the sea or in seaports in such matters as the court of admiralty has jurisdiction.

Caught in the ice.

Is the ratio of weight of vapor existing in a given space to the weight that would be present if the space were saturated at the space temperature.

Areas of the ocean lying between the mostly westerly winds of the higher latitudes, and the trade winds. These areas usually have prolonged calms, and in the older days of sail it could take quite a while to clear out of this area, by which time the seame ...

Area into which a boat can not go without tacking.

a wind coming from the northeast

To transfer containers from one ship to another when both vessels are controlled by the same network (carrier) manager.

Usually refers to intracity hauling on drays or trucks.

As provided in the Shipping Act of 1984, a contract between a shipper (or a shippers association) and an ocean common carrier (or conference) in which the shipper makes a commitment to provide a certain minimum quantity of cargo or freight revenue over a ...

Relay to all others in order (a signal repeated from one ship to the next astern in column).

Man or boy employed in sailing deep-water craft. Word is sometimes loosely used to include men who go to sea. Used officially to denote a seaman serving on deck.

A curved inlet section on an impeller.

A portable generator which can be attached to a refrigerated container to power the refrigeration unit during transit.

The art and science of designing vessels.

The velocity of the gas in the passages between the filter units in the filter house of a gas filter.

A rail surrounding the poop deck.

The after section of the propeller shaft.