INDEX
A
- A Frame
- AA AA (Always afloat, always accessible)
- Abaft
- Abaft the beam
- Abandon ship
- Abeam
- Able bodied seaman (AB)
- About
- Abreast
- Accommodation ladder
- Act of God
- Actual Total Loss
- Address commission (Adcom)
- Admiral
- Adrift
- Advance freight
- Affreightment
- Afloat
- Aframax
- Aft
- Aft Peak Tank
- AG (Arabian Gulf)
- Agency fee
- Aground
- AH range
- Air Draft
- Airband
- Alien species
- All hands
- All told
- Aloft
- Alongside
- Always accessible
- Always accessible berth(s)
- Always afloat
- Amidships (or ‘Midships’)
- AMVER
- AMWELSH (Americanised Welsh Coal Charterparty)
- Anchor
- Anchor bar
- Anchor chain
- Anchor cock-bill
- Anchor lights
- Anchor watch
- Anchor's aweigh
- Anchorage
- Angle of repose
- Anti-pollution clauses
- Anti-static additive
- Anti-static additive
- APS (Arrival Pilot Station)
- ARA (Antwerp-Rotterdam-Amsterdam)
- Arbitration agreement
- Arbitration clause
- Arrived ship
- Articles of Agreement
- ASBA
- ASBA II (ASBATANKVOY)
- ASBATIME
- Ashore
- Assembly station
- Astern
- At anchor
- Athwartships
- ATRS
- AUSREP
- Australian holds ladders
- Auto ignition temperature
- Auto-ignition
- Aweigh
- Awning
- AWRI Additional War Risk Insurance
- Aye, aye, sir
B
- Backing (of wind)
- Backstays
- Bagging of cargo
- Bail
- Ballast
- Ballast bonus (BB)
- Ballast Management Record
- Ballast Movement
- Ballast Passage
- Ballast Pump
- Ballast Tanks
- Ballast water
- Baltic Exchange
- Baltic Freight Index (BFI)
- Baltic International Freight Futures Index (BIFFEX)
- BALTIME
- Bar draught
- Bareboat charter
- BARECON A
- BARECON B
- Barge
- Barrel
- Batten down
- BBB (Before breaking bulk)
- Bdi (Both days included)
- Beaching
- Beam
- Beam Knees
- Beam wind
- Beams
- Bear a hand
- Bearers
- Bearing
- Bearing Pintle
- Becalmed
- Belly strap
- Below bridges (BB)
- Beneficial owner
- Berth
- Berth Charter
- Berth note or Booking note
- Berth rates or Liner rates
- Berth terms
- Bilge
- Bill of Lading
- BIMCO
- Binnacle
- Bitter end
- Bitts
- Blast
- Blind sector
- Block
- Blue Certificate
- Boarding arrangements
- Boarding speed
- Bob cat
- Boilers
- Bollard
- Bonafide
- Bonded Stores
- Bonding
- Boom cradle
- Boot topping
- Boss Plate
- Bosun
- Bosun's chair
- Bosun's locker
- Both Ends
- Both to Blame collision clause
- Bow
- Boxing the compass
- Boycott Clause
- Brackish water arrival draught (BWAD)
- Breach of contract
- Breach of warranty of authority
- Break ground
- Breakbulk (cargo) (BB)
- Breaking bulk (BB)
- Breaking strength
- Bridge
- Bridge Team
- Briefing
- Broker
- Brokerage (or Commission)
- Brush discharge
- Bulbous Bow
- Bulk Cargo
- Bulk Chemical Code
- Bulk density
- Bulkheads
- Bulldog grip (wire rope grips)
- Bunker clauses
- Bunkers
- Buoy
- Butterworth Tank Cleaning System
- Cargo Breaking Bulk
- Clean Ballast
- Dirty Ballast
- Permanent Ballast
- Propeller Boss
C
- Cable
- Call Letters
- Calm
- Camber
- Canceling Date
- Cancellation Clause
- Cancelling date or Laycan
- CANTING
- CANTING LIVRE
- Capacity Plan
- Capping
- Capsize
- Capstan
- Captain
- Cardinal buoy
- Cardinal points
- Cargo Capacity
- Cargo manifest
- Cargo Plan
- Cargo Pump
- Cargo Record Book
- Cargo Securing Manual
- Cargo stowage plan
- Cargoes which may liquefy
- Carriage of Goods by Sea Act (COGSA)
- Cast off
- Casualty
- Cathodic protection
- Catwalk
- Center Tanks
- Centerline
- Centrifugal Pump
- CENTROCON
- Certificate of Delivery and Redelivery
- Cesser clause
- Cesser Clause
- Chafing gear
- Chain locker
- Charter
- Charter Party
- Charterer
- Charterer's account
- Chartering
- Chemical tanker
- Chief mate
- Chock
- CHOPT (Charterer's option)
- Classification Society
- Clean Ballast
- Clean charter
- Clear Days
- Cleat
- Clingage
- CLOSE QUARTERS
- CMI (Comite Maritime International)
- COA (Contract of Affreightment)
- Coast Earth Station (CES)
- Coff Plate
- Cofferdam
- Cold work
- Collision Bulkhead
- Combination carrier
- Combination carriers (OBO)
- Combustible
- Combustible gas indicator
- Company
- Concentrates
- Consignee
- Consignment
- Consignment clause
- Consignor
- Consortium
- Constructive Total Loss
- Container
- Container Packing Certificate
- Container spreader beam
- Contamination
- Convenient speed
- Conveyor system
- coral reefs
- Corner fitting
- Corona
- COSPAS-SARSAT
- Course
- Course made good
- Crash-stop
- Critical structural areas
- Crow's nest
- Crude Oil Washing
- Cubic Capacity
- Custom of the Trade
- Customary despatch (CD or CQD)
- Customs Whether Customs cleared or not (WCCON)
D
- D1/2D (DHD) Despatch half Demurrage
- Damages for Detention
- Dangerous area
- Datum
- Datum marker buoy
- Davits
- Dead ahead
- Dead light
- Dead reckoning (DR)
- Dead water
- Dead wind
- Deadfreight
- Deadweight charters
- Deadweight Tonnage
- Deck
- Deck Log
- Deck Officer
- Deck Stores
- Deep Sea Pilot
- Deep Tank
- Deep Water Route
- Delegates non potest delegare
- Demise Charter
- Demurrage
- Derelict
- Designated Person Ashore
- Despatch days
- Despatch money
- Deviation
- Deviation clause
- DGNSS
- Dirty Ballast
- Disabled
- Dispatch
- Dispatch Days
- Displacement
- Disponent owner
- Disponent Owner
- Distance freight
- Distress alert
- Distress freight
- Distress signal
- DLOSP (Dropping Last Outward Sea Pilot)
- Dock Charter
- Doctrine of Proximate Clause
- Document of Authorization
- Document of Compliance (dangerous goods)
- Doldrums
- Dolphin mooring post
- DOP (Dropping Outward Pilot)
- Double bottom
- Double Bottom Tank
- Double up
- Draft (Draught)
- Draftage
- Dragging (of anchor)
- Dreadage or Dreading Clause
- Dressing ship
- Drumhead
- Dry Certificate
- Dry dock
- DSC
- Duct Keel
- Dumping
- Dungarees
- Dunnage
- DWAT (Deadweight All-Told)
- DWCC (Deadweight Cargo Capacity)
- Dynamic Positioning
- Norske Veritas (DNV)
E
- E.i.u. (Even if used)
- Earthing
- ECA
- El Niño
- Elongated spreader
- Employment and Indemnity clause
- Employment and Indemnity clause
- Enclosed space
- Enclosed space
- Enclosed space entry permit
- Ensign
- Entry permit
- EPIRB
- Equipment Number
- Escalation clause or Escalator clause
- ETA
- ETD
- Even Keel
- Excepted
- Exceptions clause
- Explosimeter
- Explosion proof
- Explosion Proof
- Explosive range
- Express terms
F
- FAC (Fast as can)
- FAC (Fast as can)
- Fairway
- Fairway speed
- False alarm
- False alert
- Fathom
- Fender
- Fetch
- FHEX
- FHEX
- FHINC
- FHINC
- FILO (Free in liner out)
- FILO (Free in liner out)
- First Open Water (FOW)
- Fix
- Fixture
- Flag
- FLAIRING
- Flame arrester
- Flame screen
- Flame Screen (or Arrester)
- Flammable liquid
- Flammable range
- Flashlight
- Flashpoint
- Flexible boxship
- Flooding
- Floor
- Flow moisture point
- Flow state
- Flowrate
- Fo'c'sle
- Fog horn
- FONASBA
- Force Majeure
- FORE
- FORE AND AFT
- Fore Foot
- Fore peak
- Fore Peak Tank
- FORECASTLE
- Forum clause
- Foul anchor
- Frames
- Free alongside (FAS)
- Free Discharge
- Free in and out (FIO)
- Free on Board
- Free Pratique
- Freeboard
- Freeing port
- Freight
- Fuel Oil
- Full speed
G
- Galley
- Ganger Length
- Gangway
- Gantline
- Gantry crane
- Garboard strake
- Gas carrier
- Gas free
- Gas Free
- Gas free certificate
- Gas Free Certificate
- General Arrangement Plan
- General Average
- General emergency alarm
- General Operator Certificate (GOC)
- Geodetic Datum
- Geographical Rotation
- Gipsey
- Give way
- GMDSS
- GNSS
- Grab discharge
- Grain capacity
- Grating
- Green sea
- Gross Tonnage
- Ground tackle
- Grounding
- GUNWALE
- Gusset Plates
H
- Hague Rules and Hague-Visby Rules
- Half cardinal points
- Hamburg Rules
- Hampered vessel
- Hand lead
- Handy Size
- Harbor Dues
- Hat Box
- Hatch
- Hatchless holds
- HATCHWAYS
- Hawse (hawse pipe)
- Hawse buckler
- Hawser
- Hazardous area
- Heading
- Heating Coils
- Heaving line
- Heavy grains, Soya beans and Sorghums (HSS)
- HEEL
- HELM
- HHDWS (Heavy handy deadweight scrap)
- Hire
- Hog (Hogging)
- HOLD
- Holiday
- Horse latitudes
- Hot work
- Hot work Permit
- HULL
- Hurricane
- HW
- Hydrocarbon Gas
- hydrostatic release mechanism
- Hypothermia
I
- IBC Code Certificate
- Ice Clause
- IGC Code
- Ignition point
- ILO
- IMDG
- IMO
- IMO Class
- Implied terms
- Inert Condition
- Inert Gas Plant
- Inert Gas System (IGS)
- Inerting
- Inmarsat
- Inmarsat Mobile Number
- Inmarsat-A
- Inmarsat-B
- Inmarsat-C
- Inmarsat-E
- Inmarsat-M
- Inshore Traffic Zone
- Insulating Flange
- Intake Certificate
- Intaken measure
- INTERCOA 80
- Interface Detector
- International Loadline Certificate
- Intertanko
- Intrinsically Safe
- ISGOTT
- ITF (International Transport Workers Federation)
J
K
L
- International Loadline Certificate
- Labor
- LABOURSOME
- Land Earth Station (LES)
- Landlubber
- Lanyard
- Lashing
- Last known position
- LAUNCHING
- LAUNCHING PLANKS
- Lay days
- Laytime
- Leeward
- Leeway
- Length Between Perpendiculars (LBP)
- Length Overall
- Let go
- Letter of Protest (LOP)
- Lien Clause
- Life line
- Lifeboat station
- Lifting beam
- Lighterage
- Lightering
- Limit switch
- Limited Liability
- Liquid substances
- List
- Lloyd’s Register of Shipping
- Load density plan
- Load Displacement
- Load Line
- Load on Top
- Load on Top Practice
- Load on Top Procedure
- Loaded Passage
- Loading over the top
- Loading Rate
- Log
- Logbook
- Long Ton
- Longitudinal
- Longshoreman
- Lookout
- Loran C
- Lower flammable limit (LFL)
- Lubber line
- Lyle gun
M
- Make colors
- MALLET
- Man ropes
- Manhole
- Manila
- Manoeuvring speed
- Marine Surveyor
- Maritime Law
- Marlinspike
- Marry
- MARVS
- Master
- Masthead
- Masthead light
- Mate’s Receipt
- Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS)
- Maximum angle of heel
- Maximum permissible payload
- MAYDAY
- Mean Draft
- MEDEVAC
- MEDICO
- Messenger
- Messman
- META CENTRE
- Metric Ton
- Midship Draft
- MMSI
- MMSI
- Moisture content
- Moisture migration
- Molded Depth
- Monkey fist
- Monkey island
- Mooring
- Mooring Line
- MRCC
- MSI
- Muster
- Muster list
N
- Naked lights
- Narrow Band Direct Printing (NBDP)
- NAVAREA
- Navarea
- NAVTEX
- Navtex
- Neptune (King Neptune)
- Net Capacity
- Net Registered Tonnage (NRT)
- Net tonnage
- NLS Certificate
- Non Volatile petroleum
- Norske Veritas (DNV)
- Not under command (NUC)
- Note of Protest
- Notice of Protest
- Notice of Readiness (NOR)
- Notice to Mariners (NM)
- Noxious liquid substance
O
P
- Notice of Protest
- PA system
- Pad eye
- Painter
- PAN PAN
- Panamax
- PANEL
- Particularly Sensitive Sea Area (PSSA)
- Pass the word
- Passage
- Passenger car ferry
- Pay out
- Peak Tank
- Pellister
- Permanent Ballast
- Permissible exposure limit
- Permit to work system
- Personal Locator Beacon
- Phase (Oil Phases)
- Pick Report
- Pilferage
- Pilot boat
- Pilotage Exemption Certificate (PEC)
- Pin
- PITCHING
- Pitting
- PLAN
- Plankton
- Plating
- Play
- Plimsoll mark
- Plug
- polling
- pollution (marine)
- Poop deck
- Port
- Port State
- Porthole
- Position
- Pour
- Pour point
- Pouring oil on troubled waters
- Pratique
- Pressure surge
- Pressure/vacuum relief valve
- Pressure/Vacuum Valve (P/V Valve)
- Primary barrier
- Primary swell
- Product carrier
- Prolonged blast
- Proof load
- Pumproom
- Purging
Q
R
- In Regular Turn
- red tide
- Refloat
- Registry
- Reid vapour pressure (RVP)
- Relaxation time
- Relieving tackle
- Remain on Board (ROB)
- Rendezvous
- Reporting point
- Rescue
- Rescue Coordination Centre (RCC)
- Restricted area
- Rhumb line
- Rigging plan
- Rise and shine
- Ro Ro
- Ro-Ro cargo space
- Roaring forties
- Rogue Wave
- Roll call
- ROLLING
- Routing
- Rudder
- Rudder post
- Rules of the Road
- Rustbucket
S
- Safe speed
- Safe working load (SWL)
- Safety approval plate
- SafetyNET
- Sag (Sagging)
- SAILS
- Salvage
- SART
- Scupper
- SCUTTLES
- Sea anchor
- Sea chest
- Sea dog
- Sea going
- Sea lawyer
- Sea Trials
- Seaworthiness
- Seaworthiness Certificate
- Secondary barrier
- Secondary swells
- Secure for sea
- Segregation
- Semaphore
- SENC
- Separation Zone (or Line)
- Set
- Set the course
- Settling time
- Shackle
- Shaft alley
- Shanghaied
- Slop tank
- Sounding pipe
- Sour crude oil
- Special area
- Special Area
- Special category space
- Spontaneous combustion
- Spread loading
- Stability information booklet
- Static electricity
- Static non-accumulator oil
- Steadying lines
- Stripping
- Substantial corrosion
- Suspect areas