The weight prescribed by agreement between carrier and shipper for goods shipped in certain packages or in a certain number.

World Customs Organization (Ex Customs Cooperation Council)

The amount of heat energy needed to raise the temperature of a given mass of a substance by one degree Celsius. The heat required to raise the temperature of 1 kg of water by 1 degree Celsius is 4186 Joules.

A thermodynamic cycle using constant pressure, heat addition and rejection, representing the idealized behavior of the working fluid in a gas turbine type heat engine.

Electronic Data Interchange.

Non-Vessel Operating Common Carrier.

Special Periodical Survey of Hull

Neopanamax is a ship with dimensions greater than Panamax or Panamax Plus that comply with the size and draft limitations of the new locks, which are: • max length 366.0m. • max breadth 49.0m. • max draft (fresh water) 15.2m.

Length of rope whose ends are joined together so that it forms a loop.

Digital Selective CallingGMDSS System: MF/HF/VHF facility which allows for automatic access to coast stations equipped with the system. A short list to select the quickly the nature of distress is available, unfortunately the "pirate attack" had been forg ...

Qualified Member of the Engine department. Unlicensed members of the engine department who attend to a fully automated engine room.

High Speed Craft. Mostly ferries, catamaran

International Maritime Dangerous Goods Code

As defined by the Energy Security Act (PL 96-294) of 1980, "any organic matter which is available on a renewable basis, including agricultural crops and agricultural wastes and residues, wood and wood wastes and residues, animal wastes, municipal wastes, ...

The indicating part of an instrument. For example, the hand of a watch or the meniscus of a mercury column.

Any interruption in the normal physical structure or configuration of a part, such as cracks, laps, seams, inclusions, or porosity. A discontinuity may or may not affect the usefulness of the part.

The process of removing a power plant, apparatus, equipment, building, or facility from operation.

Instrument for measuring the depth to which the soil is frozen.

An instrument, located at the surface observing station, which is used to record the data presented by a radiosonde aloft.

The inaccuracy that the manufacturer permits when the unit is calibrated in the factory.