Very Large Crude Carrier (between 160,000 - 320,000 DWT)

Chemical Distribution InstituteInspection scheme of tankers following the rules of the Council of Europe Federation of Chemical Industries.

A time draft (or bill of exchange) that the drawee (payer) has accepted and is unconditionally obligated to pay at maturity.- Broadly speaking, any agreement to purchase goods under specified terms.

An instrument which indicates the presence of dust particles in the atmosphere. Also spelled coniscope.

Economic and Monetary Union.

The bearing of a celestial body from an observer's position.

Area of a computer or other device where various logic and control elements are interconnected. Often a printed circuit board into which other circuit boards plug at right angles.

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Urgent Marine Information Broadcast

The load that a power generation unit or other electrical apparatus or heating unit is rated by the manufacture to be able to meet or supply.

(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 ...

In a sailing ship carrying multiple masts, the mast set closest to the stern.

Vertical Centre of Buoyancy

Undisturbed environmental surroundings, particularly to air and temperature.

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.

A term used to describe the takeover of a company by another which might be by agreement or. Acquisition The selection of the target vessels requiring a tracking procedure and the initiation of their tracking.

See river basin.

One of the main components of a company's Report and Accounts, the balance sheet provides a.

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.

The stage, on a fixed river gauge, corresponding to the top of the lowest banks within the reach for which the gauge is used as an index. Compare to flood stage.