Complementary equipment for terminal and over the road handling containers.

Fresh water mixed with sea water, having a density between 1,000 and 1,026 kg/cm3

A machine which aspirates gas which has already been compressed and delivers the same at higher pressure.

Place where loose or other non-containerized cargo is ungrouped for delivery.

Areas of corrosion.

Tools that operate by air pressure.

When flogging a seaman, to run the fingers through the Cat-O'-Nine-Tails after each stroke to separate the strands in preparation for the next stroke.

The compartment at the bow of the vessel

An all around white light displayed at night by a ship when she is anchored.

To cause a break in the hull which may sink the vessel; the vessel is then called stove.

(1) Clear, not tangled. (2) sailing free: a vessel is sailing free when her sheets are eased. (3) running free: to sail with the wind from astern.

A point through which all buoyant forces on an immersed hull are assumed to act.

The most important commercial measurement when the intrinsic weight of the cargo is so low that the ship becomes full without being loaded to the cargo line. Is expressed in cubic metres or cubic feet.

An announced warning of an approach of a storm.

A storage tank where sewage is stored until it can be removed to a treatment facility.

A thick serge jacket worn by seamen while keeping watch at night or in stormy weather.

To know and to be able to recite the points of a compass from north to south to north again, both clockwise and counter-clockwise.

Joining the ends of two lines without increasing the thickness over the length of the splice, so that the splice will pass freely through a block.

Sufficient movement through the water to allow the boat to be controlled and steered by the rudder.

A recess into the keel or a framework fixed to the keelson in which the mast is placed