A person or firm, licensed by the treasury department of their country when required, engaged in entering and clearing goods through Customs for a client (importer).

A container fitted with a rear door and a minimum of one side door.

This type of clause covers merchandise if the damage amounts to three percent or more of the insured value of the package or cargo. If the vessel burns, sinks, collides, or sinks, all losses are fully covered. In marine insurance, the word average describ ...

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Unit of highway motive power used to pull one or more trailers/containers.

A pattern or template. Also a shape of metal or wood over or in which an object may be hammered or pressed to fit.

The bearing which supports the propeller shaft where it emerges from the ship.

A watertight cockpit with scuppers, drains, or bailers that remove water.

The process of connecting a moving rail car with a motionless rail car within a rail classification yard in order to make up a train. The cars move by gravity from an incline or "hump" onto the appropriate track.

The left side of a vessel when looking forward.

Floating wreckage from a shipwreck.

A small flat bottomed boat square at either end.

When an anchored vessel is forced, by wind or current, to swing across her anchor so as to risk fouling it with her own cable, she is said to break sheer.

The bottom of a wave, the valley between the crests.

A chaplain.

To mark a course on a chart.

Seaman's name for a reef knot tied upside down. also called a "granny" knot.

To stop the running out of a line by taking a turn around a cleat, piling, etc.; to suddenly stop or secure a line. A ship with too much way can be snubbed by letting an anchor go.

Material passed into the effluent stream composed of foreign materials incorporated into the filter medium.