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Letter Of Credit

Load / Discharge Borkers term : average load/discharge rate per day, in tons. (L/D 6000/3000). Usually followed by more details about the method of counting the days.

Volume flow rate measured in liters per second

Long tons (2,240 lbs.).

Lifting Appliance

Description of a vessel when she rolls or pitches excessively while underway in heavy seas.

A special type of oil free, positive displacement reciprocating compressor, working without piston rings. The seal between piston and cylinder wall is produced by a series of labyrinths.

A length of line or thin rope; A line used to attach a sail to a spar.

A deposit resulting from the oxidation and polymerization of fuels and lubricants when exposed to high temperatures. Similar to, but harder, than varnish.

A metal, wooden or rope stairway.

Stairway of inclined or vertical steps on board ship.

Loaded aboard a vessel.

That which is loaded into a ship. The act of loading.

Refers to the freight shipped; the contents of a shipment.

Jettisoned goods that cast overboard and are buoyed for subsequent recovery.

In wastewater treatment or livestock facilities, a shallow pond used to store wastewater where sunlight and biological activity decompose the waste.

An area of water totally or partially enclosed by coral islands, atolls, and reefs.

A boat in a dry dock.

A unit of luminance (or brightness) equal to 1/6 candles per square centimeter.