A recording anemoclinometer.

A term for stowing cargo in a container.

Petroleum Association of Japan

A unit of pressure used principally in oceanography. One decibar (10' dynes/cm2) equals 0.1 bar. In the ocean, hydrostatic pressure in decibars very nearly equals the corresponding depth in meters.

An income tax allowance to single people including widows/widowers, separated spouses etc who are.

A procedure for determining the primary elements in a substance (carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, sulfur, and ash).

Vapor Control Valve

Forty-Foot Equivalent Unit (Container)

– A portable ladder hinged to a platform attached to the side of a ship and which can be positioned to provide access between ship and shore. Telescopic accommodation ladder is used for covering a long distance between the vessel and port quay. According ...

National Ocean Service (Part of NOAA)

A heat treatment, whether accidental, intentional, or incidental (as during welding), that causes precipitation of constituents at grain boundaries, often causing the alloy to become susceptible to intergranular corrosion or intergranular stress-corrosion ...

A unit of signaling speed representing the number of code elements sent per second; often, bits per second.

Commodities such as metals, coffee and grain which are bought and sold for use as opposed to hedging.

On the deck (not over it - see ALOFT)

A system operated by the clearing banks in which a paper slip/document instructs a bank branch to.

An instrument designed to measure quantities of heat. Sometimes used in meteorology to measure solar radiation.

The stress level in a material at or above the yield strength but below the ultimate strength, i.e., a stress in the plastic range.

Moves anchors and tow drilling vessels, lighters and similar.

International Forest Product Transport Association

A manifest that lists all cargo carried on a specific vessel voyage.