This type of insurance offers the shipper the broadest coverage available, covering against all losses that may occur in transit.

Waves breaking over rocks or shoals. A wave that approaches shallow water, causing the wave height to exceed the depth of the water it is in, in effect tripping it. The wave changes from a smooth surge in the water to a cresting wave with water tumbling d ...

Small, cake-shaped pieces of ice floating down rivers.

A small boat designed to be rowed by use of its oars. Some dinghies are rowboats.

An enemy vessel captured at sea by a privateer or a ship of war. The term is also applied to contraband cargo taken from a merchant ship.

A knot widely used when making a boat fast to a post or bollard.

Two lines spliced together to form an eye.

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 arc of a circle in which certain types of navigational lights known as sector lights are visible.

Customer designated as party paying for services.

A sail having battens that run the full horizontal length of the sail.

The study of the earth's waters.

Lie at anchor

Is the saturation pressure at the critical temperature. It is the highest vapor pressure that the liquid can exert.

A schematic flow sheet showing all controls involved with the system.

A filter assembly in which the inlet, outlet and filter element axes are in a straight line.

An adiabatic compression with no increase in entropy; a reversible-adiabatic compression.

A breakwater used as a landing pier.

Machine which receives dry bulk cargo. It is used for stowing sugar,ores and minerals in the holds.