Fast Rescue Craft

International Chamber of Shipping

Vessel Safety and Operations Audit

Best Manufacturing Practices.(US navy program).

British Rig Owners Association

Condition Assessment Program. Structural assessment program devised by the classification societies ABS, LR, DNV.

Federal Water Pollution Control Act

Free Despatch

SAR Simulation Model

Broadcast Notice to Mariners.

Damages for Detention

Format for digital cartographic data

Mean Low Water

Bermuda (Flag)

American Society for Testing and Materials.

Aluminium Alloy Pleasure Yacht.

Multipurpose Work Boat.

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.

Low Pressure

Aluminium Alloy, High Speed Passenger.