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Buoy

Buoy

Created OnFebruary 6, 2018
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A floating object employed as an aid to mariners to mark the navigable limits of channels, their fairways, sunken dangers, isolated rocks, telegraph cables, and the like.

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  • Arrived ship
  • Dreadage or Dreading Clause
  • Bareboat charter
  • Notice to Mariners (NM)
  • Free in and out (FIO)
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