Subcommittee on ship Design and Equipment.(IMO)

European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service

Netherlands Antilles (flag)

Inert Gas System

American Institute of Marine Underwriters.

Annual Inert Gas System Survey.

Thanks for Your Telex

General operators' certificate with regard to GMDSS

Watertight

Destroyed by Storm.

Vinyl Chloride Monomer. Gas occasionaly carried by LPG tankers. Highly cancerogen, heard that the German allows a crew to carry the gas only once in their carreer. Classified as flamable, toxic and polymerizable.

National Bureau of Standards (see NIST

1.Marine Evacuation System.2.Mobile Earth Station

Australia (flag)

Vessel Safety and Operations Audit

Hydrostatic Balanced Loading. Method of loading large oil tankers which allows to extends the lives of tankers from 25 to 30 years with regard to MARPOL phase-out provision.

Federal Water Pollution Control Act

Fast Rescue Craft

Asphalt Tanker.

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