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.

Annual Inert Gas System Survey.

National Bureau of Standards (see NIST

Pure Car Carrier

Condition Assessment Survey

St. Vincent & The Grenadines (Flag)

Fresh Water Draft On Arrival

Value Added Tax

A rope is fagged when the end is untwisted.

General operators' certificate with regard to GMDSS

Maritime Environment Protection CommitteeIMO branch dealing, among other, with the construction of tankers. The number of the meeting is often added to the acronym so that in the Autumn 2000 the next meeting will be MEPC46.

Whether In Port Or Not

Thanks for Your Telex

American Institute of Marine Underwriters.

Barge, Liquefied Nitrogen maximum pressure 10kg/cm

Fast Rescue Craft

American Society for Testing and Materials.

Destroyed by Storm.

Inert Gas System

International Chamber of Shipping