The compression of an air actuator (air spring) below its design height.

A barge equipped with tracks on which up to about 12 railroad cars are moved in harbors or inland waterways.

Cargo landed in excess of the quantity on manifest.

To prevent contact with an object while bringing the ship alongside.2. To push off when making a landing.

This is a factor expressing deviation of a gas from perfect gas laws.

Search of a vessel, by Customs authorities, for unreported goods.

A solid wharf or structure built of stone along the edge of a harbor used for loading and offloading of cargo, and embarkation and disembarkation of passengers.

Said of anchor when it is under ship's forefoot, and cable is nearly up and down.

A law of chemistry and physics: the rate of diffusion of one substance in another is proportional to the negative gradient of the concentration of the first substance.

A lubricating oil made with synthetic base stocks.

A weight attached to a line used to determine depth by lowering it into the water.

A lighted or unlighted fixed (non-floating) aid to navigation that serves as a signal or indication for guidance or warning. (Lights and daybeacons both constitute "beacons.")

A wind shift that forces a boat to sail below its mean wind course.

A fix taken by visually observing the location of known landmarks.

A charge, based on a fixed daily rate.

The total rate from the point of origin to final destination.

Boat carried at davits on quarter of ship, and kept ready for immediate use when at sea.

Most ocean freight is billed on the basis of weight or measurement tons (W/M). Weight tons can be expressed in short tons of 2000 pounds, long tons of 2240 pounds or metric tons of 1000 kilos (2204.62 pounds). Measurement tons are usually expressed as car ...

To haul in or bind something together in order to create more space.

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.