Abbreviation for:- Collect (cash) on Delivery.- Carried on Docket (pricing).

A device for mounting cylinders.

on square-rigged ships, a platform at the masthead resting on the trestletrees and crosstrees. In addition to being a work platform, it extended the topmast shrouds to give additional support to the topmast.

Beat to windward to avoid being driven onto a lee shore.

Clean galley and mess halls, set tables, prepare salads, clean living quarters.

A facility or enclosure in which air content and other conditions (such as temperature, humidity, and pressure) are controlled and maintained at a specific level by special facilities and operating processes and by trained personnel.

Is a process taking place under constant pressure. To change the volume from state 1 to state 2, heat must be removed. The temperature change is proportional to the change in specific volume.

A crossbeam at the upper part of an anchor.

An anchor carried at the stern.

Registry of the vessel is foreign to that of the country in which the company that owns the ship is located.

A basin for receiving a vessel for repairs, capable of being pumped dry (to repair vessel and scrape marine growth from bottom).

Not in packages or containers; shipped loose in the hold of a ship without mark and count." Grain, coal and sulfur are usually bulk freight.

A railroad yard with many tracks used for assembling freight trains.

Free from living organisms and especially micro-organisms. Usually used in food and dairy applications.

Close alongside; very near; in close proximity to.

Various pieces of rigging which hold a bowsprit in position.

When documents presented do not conform to the requirements of the letter of credit (L/C), it is referred to as a "discrepancy." Banks will not process L/C's which have discrepancies. They will refer the situation back to the buyer and/or seller and await ...

Removing waste from a holding tank.

An order to haul up.

The ratio of loaded miles to empty miles.