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NPFC Integrated Management System.

Nippon Kaiji Kyokai (Japanese Class Society)

The pressure unit of the meter-ton-second system of physical units. equal to 10 millibars or 101 dynes per cm2.

Suez Canal Authority

The cost of producing electricity up to the point of the powerplant busbar.

An air pollution control device that removes organic contaminants by oxidizing them into carbon dioxide and water through a chemical reaction using a catalysis, which is a substance that increases (or decreases) the rate of a chemical reaction without bei ...

Embrittlement under creep conditions of, for example, aluminum alloys and steels that results in abnormally low rupture ductility. In aluminum alloys, iron in amounts above the solubility limit is known to cause such embrittlement; in steels, the phenomen ...

(1) An iron mineral crystallizing in therhombohedral system; the most important oreof iron. (2) An iron oxide, Fe,O,, corrcsponding to an iron content of approximately 70%.

Mandatory Annual Survey (SOLAS,MARPOL)

A wall that carries ceiling rafters or roof trusses.

To combine or charge with gas.

Joint Maritime Information System

A guarantee issued by a bank, on behalf of a seller to a buyer, in relation to any advance payment that is made by the buyer to the seller to allow the contract to commence. If the contract is not completed the buyer can claim reimbursement of the advance ...

A combination of banking and insurance business. A high street bank, for example, might sell both.

Closest Point of Approach

When the draft of a ship fore and aft are the same. Floating level (no list).

National Cargo Bureau

To cast overboard or off. To discard something as unwanted or burdensome. Goods or equipment may be jettisoned to lighten a ship in danger.

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