Total Calculated Volume

Auxiliary Water-Tube Boiler Survey.

Worldscale

Vapor Recovery System

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

Facilitation Committee (IMO)

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.

American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations

Broken Up.

Germanischer Lloyd (German Class Society)

Annual Machinery Survey.

Automatic Radar Plotting Aid

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)

Client Account Management System.

British Marine Equipment Association

Visual Display Unit

Light Displacement Ton

Free of Capture and SeizureInsurance term. Used until 1982 in all marine insurance contracts to refer to the war exclusion clause. Discontinued in the UK cargo insurance market in 1982 and in the hull insurance market in 1983 (BIMCO).

Anchor Handling Purposes.

Fuel Adjustment Factor