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

The manner in which a shipment moves; i.e., the carriers handling it and the points at which the carriers interchange.

Place where cargo leaves the care and custody of carrier.

Also known as PM, maintenance performed according to a fixed schedule involving the routine repair and replacement of machine parts and components.

Wood boards used to cover the ribs, frames, deck or hull of a wooden vessel.

Shanties are the work songs that were used on the square-rigged ships of the Age of Sail. Their rhythms coordinated the efforts of many sailors hauling on lines.

Space booked by shipper or charterer on a vessel but not used

The forward part of the bow which overhangs the keel.

Contraction for "Shipper's Export Declaration."

Sailing too close to the wind

A system of reefing a sail by partially furling it. Roller furling systems are not necessarily designed to support roller reefing.

Customer designated as party paying for services.

Air at a temperature of 68

Making a ship just as it is about to sail.

Thin plates attached to the exterior of the hull to deaden any rolling.

A moment of time which could be measured by the shaking of a sail as a sailing ship comes into the wind.

A private ship operating under license from a government against the merchant shipping of an enemy.

A waybill covering two or more consignments of freight.

Light rope secured to a buoy to hold vessel while stronger moorings are attached.

Anything that is straightforward and easy.