A complete listing of all cargo entering the country of discharge. Required at all world ports and is the primary source of cargo control, against which duty is assessed by the receiving country.

Every company has an 'accounting reference date'. This is a date which it chooses itself, and.

A marine insurance policy that applies to all shipments made by an exporter over a period of time rather than to one shipment only.

A semi great circle joining the north and south poles. Known as lines of longitude, they cross the equator and all parallels of latitude at right angles.

High Frequency (3-30 Mhz)

See sea-water thermometer, reversing thermometer.

Always within Institute Warranties Limits (Insurance purpose).

Coastwise Service in the Philippines.

One who is employed in the working of cargo when a ship is being loaded or unloaded in port.

The temperature of a body referred to the absolute zero, at which point the volume of an ideal gas theoretically becomes zero. (Fahrenheit scale is minus 459.67

The stress component perpendicular to a plane on which forces act. Normal stress may be either tensile or compresssive.

Filtering unit that separates solids and liquid droplets from gas (air). Widely used in removing oil from a gas or air.

1.Marshall Islands (flag).2.ABS Marine Services.

The semi-circular steel coupling device mounted on a tractor which engages and locks with a chassis semi-trailer.

Is the term used for average atmospheric air at sea level in a temperature zone where it contains some moisture. It is defined in the ASME Test Code For Displacement Compressors as being at 14.696 psiA, 68

A characteristic applied to domestic water heaters that is the amount of gallons raised 100 degrees Fahrenheit per hour (or minute) under a specified thermal efficiency.

A construction material made by compressing earth in a form; used traditionally in many areas of the world and widely throughout North Africa and the Middle East.

Order to pick up goods at a named place and deliver them to a pier. Usually issued by exporter to trucker but may apply to a railroad, which completes delivery by land. Use is limited to a few major U.S. ports. Also known as shipping delivery order.

A plastic payment card which normally allows the holder higher spending limits over the standard.

The stay leading from the mast to the bow