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.

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)

Notice of Protest (see LOP)

Same as electromotive force series.

Accountable Item Management System.

Corrective Action Request.

Gas Oil

Single-celled organisms, free-living or parasitic, that break down the wastes and bodies of dead organisms, making their components available for reuse by other organisms.

Seaman's call to attract attention.

A method to trap liquids or gases by causing them to penetrate into the absorbent material.

Bunker adjustment factor

Wind with a speed below 1 knot (1 mph); Beaufort scale number 0.

Warehouse Withdrawal for Transportation (WDT)Allows merchandise that has been withdrawn from a bonded warehouse at one port to be transported in bond to another port, where a superseding entry will be filed.

Federation of ASIAN Shipowners Association

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

A person trained and specialising in risk, statistics and finance who gives advice on insurance and.

1.Marine Evacuation System.2.Mobile Earth Station

A natural or synthetic polymer, which at room temperature can be stretched repeatedly to at least twice its original length, and which after removal of the tensile load will immediately and forcibly return to approximately its original length.

Automated Mutual Assistance Vessel Rescue System (USA).

Independent Tank, Center