Bulk

Operator of Uninspected Passenger Vessels.

Vessel Traffic Management Services

A rope is fagged when the end is untwisted.

Gas Oil

General Agreement on Trade in Services

An ideal heat engine (conceived by Sadi Carnot) in which the sequence of operations forming the working cycle consists of isothermal expansion, adiabatic expansion, isothermal compression, and adiabatic compression back to its initial state.

The fibrous material remaining after the extraction of juice from sugarcane; often burned by sugar mills as a source of energy.

An energy storage device composed of one or more electrolyte cells.

Notice of Protest (see LOP)

Same as electromotive force series.

International Bulk Chemical CodeCode for the construction and equipment of ships carrying dangerous chemicals in bulk. (Often wrongly defined in BA publications and charts as International Bulk Carrier code)

The play or loose motion in an instrument due to the clearance existing between mechanically contacting parts.

Sometimes called a pulsation damper this is a small receiver fitted on the inlet or discharge of a reciprocating compressor. The device is designed to remove the resonance from the compressor thereby reducing noise.

Independent Tank, Center

Binary cycle systems can be used with liquids at temperatures less than 350 F (177 C). In these systems, the hot geothermal liquid vaporizes a secondary working fluid, which then drives a turbine.

World Maritime University

An order to haul away or to heave around a capstan (pull).

Accountable Item Management System.

The angle between true south and the point on the horizon directly below the sun.