Ship supplies.

Category:Sea Words

An opening in a ship's deck for the loading and discharging of any kind of cargo.

Category:Sea Words

A manifest that lists all cargo carried on a specific vessel voyage.

Category:Sea Words

Cargo Not Otherwise Specified. Usually the rate entry in a tariff that can apply to commodities not covered under a specific item or subitem in the applicable tariff.

Category:Sea Words

Clauses introduced by charterers based on shortage of delivered cargo because of increased oil prices.

Category:Sea Words

Condensation which occurs when a ship sails from a cool to a relatively warm climate.

Category:Sea Words

Most ocean freight is billed on the basis of weight or measurement tons (W/M). Weight tons can be expressed in short tons of 2000 pounds, long tons of 2240 pounds or metric tons of 1000 kilos (2204.62 pounds). Measurement tons are usually expressed as car ...

Category:Sea Words

A winch used for hoisting and lowering cargo.

Category:Technical Terms

Timbers used to support the deck planking of a wooden ship; also for supporting hatches.

Category:Sea Words

Structural pieces running fore and aft between the beams.

Category:Sea Words

A rate applicable to a carload of goods.

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A Customs document permitting the holder to temporarily carry or send merchandise into certain foreign countries (for display, demonstration or similar purposes) without paying duties or posting bonds. Any of various Customs documents required for crossin ...

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An ideal heat engine (conceived by Sadi Carnot) in which the sequence of operations forming the working cycle consists of isothermal expansion, adiabatic expansion, isothermal compression, and adiabatic compression back to its initial state.

Category:Energy Terms

Someone who becomes an account holder with a building society in the hope that they will benefit.

Category:Financial Terms

Old three-masted trading vessel which was square-rigged on the fore and main masts, and lateen rigged on the mizzen mast. Similar to the Caravel, but larger and more robust.

Category:Sea Words

A knot used to tie two lines together.

Category:Sea Words

Any person or entity who, in a contract of carriage, undertakes to perform or to procure the performance of carriage by rail, road, sea, air, inland waterway or by a combination of such modes.

Category:Sea Words

The frequency of a carrier wave.

Category:Meteorology

Transmitted energy which is modulated in order to carry information. Usually, it is in the form of a radio- frequency sine wave, modulated either in amplitude or in frequency.

Category:Meteorology

A certificate required by U.S. Customs to release cargo properly to the correct party.

Category:Sea Words