Admiralty Raster Chart Service (U.K. Hydrographic office)

American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations

American Petroleum Institute

International Bulk Chemical CodeCode for the construction and equipment of ships carrying dangerous chemicals in bulk. (Often wrongly defined in BA publications and charts as International Bulk Carrier code)

Auxiliary Water-Tube Boiler Survey.

Facilitation Committee (IMO)

Low Water Ordinary Near Tides.

Broken Up.

1.Constructive Total Loss. After an incident such as collision, grounding, fire, if it is too expensive to repair the ship cannot, the insurance consider it is lost. The vessel is abandoned or sold as scrap.2.Coastal Trade Limit service.

Knots. The speed of the ship in nautical miles per hour (1.852 km/h or 101.3ft/minute)

Vapor Recovery System

Light Displacement Ton

British Marine Equipment Association

Automatic Radar Plotting Aid

Annual Machinery Survey.

Client Account Management System.

Germanischer Lloyd (German Class Society)

American Society for Engineering Education.

Anchor Handling Purposes.

1.All purposes.2.Additional premium.3.Accounts payable