Place where crew is accommodated.

American National Standards Institute.

National Economic Council

Tropical Fresh

Warehouse Withdrawal for Transportation (WDT)Allows merchandise that has been withdrawn from a bonded warehouse at one port to be transported in bond to another port, where a superseding entry will be filed.

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

Vertical Centre of Buoyancy

Underwriters Laboratories

Electronic Chart System

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.

Marine Environmental Protection.

Automated Mutual Assistance Vessel Rescue System (USA).

A continuous-recording barometer.

Compartment in the stern of a vessel used for storage; a storage space below the deck in the cockpit.

When, Where Ready

A machine having a vertically mounted warping end on which a rope may be wound under power, but not stored.

(Delivered At Frontier) (...Named Place):A Term of Sale which means the sellers fulfill their obligation to deliver when the goods have been made available, cleared for export, at the named point and placed at the frontier, but before the customs Terms of ...

The conversion of one form of energy into another by the action of plants or microorganisms. The conversion of biomass to ethanol, methanol, or methane.

Inter-governmental organisation