Nautical name for an anchor. Originally, was a stone used as an anchor.

Permanent pip iron ballast specially shaped and placed along each side of keelson. Name is sometimes given to any iron ballast.

Any person or entity who, in a contract of carriage, undertakes to perform or to procure the performance of carriage by rail, road, sea, air, inland waterway or by a combination of such modes.

Transaction or interchange that occurs at the time a container leaves a rail or water terminal.

To break loose from a mooring, anchor or docking.

Capable of keeping out water.

A charge, based on a fixed daily rate.

To bagpipe the mizzen, is to lay it aback by bringing the sheet to the weather mizzen rigging.

A bulkhead that will not let water pass from one side of it to the other.

The highest continuous deck which runs the full length of the ship without a fall or interruption.

That part of a ship's bow where the hawse holes and hawse pipes are situated.

Sling of various types used for lifting vehicles on to and off general cargo ship.s

Location where shipment begins its movement.

A projecting aperture at the end of a tube, pipe etc. serving as an outlet for compressed air. Reduces the demand on the compressor by generating the highest thrust and volume for the lowest possible air consumption.

The inside center strand of rope.

An instrument that, once established, cannot be modified or cancelled without the agreement of all parties concerned.

Navigation and Inspection Circular (US Coast Guard)

A floating island of ice. Only one-ninth of the total mass of an iceberg is visible above water level.

U.S. Customs' automated program under AMS. It allows for electronic reporting of inbound (foreign) cargoes in the U.S.

The U.S. government does not issue certificates of free sale. However, the Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, Maryland, will issue, upon request, a letter of comment to the U.S. manufacturers whose products are subject to the Federal Food, Drug ...