Value Added Tax

Auxiliary engine

SAR Simulation Model

Energy storage using electrochemical batteries. The three main applications for battery energy storage systems include spinning reserve at generating stations, load leveling at substations, and peak shaving on the customer side of the meter.

Europe Asia Trades Agreement (Conference)

Association of Shipbrokers and Agents (U.S.A.) Inc.

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

Free of Capture and SeizureInsurance term. Used until 1982 in all marine insurance contracts to refer to the war exclusion clause. Discontinued in the UK cargo insurance market in 1982 and in the hull insurance market in 1983 (BIMCO).

ACRONYM - Actuator

Pure Car Carrier

Hertz

Autonomous Underwater Vehicle.

Admiralty constant – A coefficient used in the preliminary estimations of the power required in a new design to attain the desired speed. It is presented by the formula: where: D = displacement in tons, V = speed in knots, P = shaft power in kW. Values ...

To lay the head yards abox in a square rigged sailing vessel was to lay them square to the foremast in order to heave-to.

More Or Less Owners

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

Sundays, holidays, included

The amount of energy (in electron volts) required to free an outer shell electron from its orbit about the nucleus to a free state, and thus promote it from the valence to the conduction level.

General operators' certificate with regard to GMDSS

An octagonal shaped shelter that originated in Mongolia, and traditionally made from leather or canvas for easy transportation.