Tanker Vessel

Laytime can be defined as the amount of time allowed to a ship in a voyage charter for loading and unloading of cargo at a port. If a ship fails to complete the work during this allotted time and the ship is required to stay at a port for a longer time, t ...

Any asset which produces.

A document which requires proper signatures for consummating carriage of contract. Must be marked as "original" by the issuing carrier.

Abbreviation for the critical value of the plane strain stress-intensity factor that will produce crack propagation by stress-corrosion cracking of a given material in a given environment.

Half Dispatch Lay Time Saved Both Ends

Deadweight tons.

Floating Storage Unit

Subcommittee on Standards of Training and Watchkeeping (IMO)

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

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

Association of Diving Contractors.

Amp Hours: AH A unit of measure for a battery's storage capacity. Most auto/marine and light truck batteries are tested at a 20-hour discharge rate. Example: A 12-volt 100ah rated marine battery means that 5 amps can be discharged for 20 hours at 80° ...

Car Equivalent Unit. To assess the carrying capacity of Car carriers.

Annual Cargo Gear survey.

Generally, a measure of the departure of the mean daily temperature from a given standard, one degree day for each degree (

An electrode when polarized frequently yields a current potential relationship over a region which can be approximated by:h=

States that the volume of a mixture of gases is equal to the sum of the partial volumes which the constituent gases would occupy if each existed alone at the total pressure of the mixture.

A negotiable instrument is any document, which permits one party to transfer their rights to a second party by endorsing and delivering the document to the second party. An instrument is only fully negotible when the party transferring it receives value a ...

Water Ballast Tank