Metric tons (2,250 lbs.).

Letter Of Credit

Money paid to shipper for charter of a ship (or portion) up to stated limit irrespective of quantity of cargo

Freight payable back to the port of loading or another convenient port when the vessel is unable to reach the port of destination.

Where a seller/shipper issues a 'letter of indemnity' in favour of the carrier in exchange for a clean bill of lading

Fridays, Holidays Included (Muslim Countries)

Overtime.

Food and Drug Administration.

(See TAUNT.)

American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Steel surround to a hatchway vertically to the deck for preventing water ingress into the hold and to lessen risk for persons.

Free air delivery. Air at the atmospheric conditions of the site and unaffected by the compressor. Flow is measured at the discharge valve of the compressor, after the aftercooler, the water separator and built in check valve. Capacity and power consumpti ...

A mooring line fixed to the bow of the boat and leading aft where it is attached to the dock. This prevents the boat from moving forward in its berth. Its opposite, the forward quarter spring line, is used to keep the boat from moving aft in its berth.

Freight rate for shipping container for a particular commodity.

(Free Alongside Ship) (...Named Port of Shipment):A Term of Sale which means the seller fulfills his obligation to deliver when the goods have been placed alongside the vessel on the quay or in lighters at the named port of shipment.This means that the bu ...

A type of hygrometer which measures the water vapor content of the atmosphere by means of the absorption of vapor by a hygroscopic chemical.

Stays running from a masthead to the vessel's side, slanting a little aft. See STAYS.)

The component of a solar thermal collector that absorbs solar radiation and converts it to heat, or, as in a solar photovoltaic device, the material that readily absorbs photons to generate charge carriers (free electrons or holes).

Said of an anchor cable when its line angle approximates a continuation of the fore stay line .

Work done by a man who bustles about doing nothing. Usually amplified by adding "running twice round the scuttle butt and once round the longboat".