Anchor Handling Vessel.

Cargo Tank, Center

Greenwich Mean Time. Now mostly replaced by UTC or Z.

Bahamas (flag)

All Passenger.

Said of a vessel when her keel is close to the bottom and all but touching it.

Agreement on Rules of Origin. (GATT 1994)

Fiscal Year

1. Loose, not on moorings or towline.2.Floating at random; not fastened by and kind of mooring; at the mercy of winds and currents; loose from normal anchorage. A vessel is said to be adrift when she breaks away from her moorings, warfs, and so on. t – ...

A means of reducing the volume of a material by compaction into a bale.

British Maritime Law Association

Technical Barriers to Trade

Macroscopic progression marks on a fatigue fracture or stress-corrosion cracking surface that indicate successive positions of the advancing crack front. The classic appearance is of irregular elliptical or semielliptical rings, radiating outward from one ...

Get away from the ship, as in an emergency.

A layer consisting of a mixture of calcium carbonate and magnesium hydroxide deposited on surfaces being cathodically protected because of the increased pH adjacent to the protected surface.

European Standard

Free Discharge

Bureau Veritas (French Class Society)

Vessel Response Plan

Timbers used to support bottom of ship while it is under construction.