Light Displacement Ton

Binary Coded Decimal. A coding system in which each decimal digit from 0 to 9 is represented by a 4-digit binary number.

A device used to control the voltage in a fluorescent lamp.

1.Constructive Total Loss. After an incident such as collision, grounding, fire, if it is too expensive to repair the ship cannot, the insurance consider it is lost. The vessel is abandoned or sold as scrap.2.Coastal Trade Limit service.

A compartment in which fuel is stored; fuel consumed by the engines of a ship

Vapor Recovery System

British Marine Equipment Association

ZUMACA. Small sailing coaster from the River Plate estuary and the adjacent waters of Brazil. (Kerchove)

The measure of the efficiency of fluorescent lamp ballasts. It is the relative light output divided by the power input.

The order to go aloft (go up above).

Stand watch, during which they steer the vessel, stand lookout, assist the mate on watch and make rounds of the ship to insure that all is in order. They also tie up and untie the vessel to and from the dock and maintain the equipment on deck.

Client Account Management System.

Measured from the most forward part of the fore end to the most after part of the after end of the hull.

Germanischer Lloyd (German Class Society)

A case hardening process in which a suitable ferrous material is heated above the lower transformation temperature in a gaseous atmosphere of such composition as to cause simultaneous absorption of carbon and nitrogen by the surface and, by diffusion, cre ...

Automatic Radar Plotting Aid

Annual Machinery Survey.

Warehouse Withdrawal for Transportation (WDT)Allows merchandise that has been withdrawn from a bonded warehouse at one port to be transported in bond to another port, where a superseding entry will be filed.

1.All purposes.2.Additional premium.3.Accounts payable

Anchor Handling Purposes.