Americanized Welsh Coal Charter (1993)

Free Carrier. A modern equivalent of FAS used in intermodal transport where goods are transferred at a nominated forwarders premises, depot or terminal but not actually on board vessel. Free Carrier Free Carrier means that the seller delivers the good ...

Apparatus in which radar techniques are used to determine the range, elevation, and azimuth of a balloonborne target, to computer upper-air wind data. It is a type of rawin system.

Condensation of thin metal coatings on the cool surface of work in vacuum.

Floating Storage Unit

Deadweight tons.

The energy of any type of electromagnetic radiation. Also called radiation.

Ports in order of calling

To veer or haul on a rope, slightly, so that a part subject to nip or chafe is moved away and a fresh part takes its place.

100 fathoms or 600 feet (6 feet to a fathom).

A term which relates to a person's final salary in an occupational pension scheme taken out.

Demurrage/Despatch money. Brokerage abbreviation of chartering terms. Amount to be paid if the ship is loading/discharging slower/faster than foreseen. Usually the Despatch money, which is paid by the shipowner, is half the amount of the Demurrage, which ...

See electrokinetic potential.

A British Offshore Support Vessel Owners Association

The geographical direction that the primary or largest exterior wall of a building faces.

Association of Diving Contractors.

The difference between the true value of some quantity and its observed value. Every observation is subject to certain errors. Systematic errors affect the whole of a series of observations in nearly the same way. For example, the scale of an instrument m ...

Name applied to a class of instruments which measure the liquid content of the atmosphere.

Subcommittee on Standards of Training and Watchkeeping (IMO)

A compressor belonging to the group of dynamic compressors. Characterized by radial flow. (Centrifugal)