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.

The toal temperature at the intake flange of the compressor.

The bridge used for taking observations, or directing the handling of the ship.

A gauge that measures air flow as a percentage of capacity, used in rotary screw compressors as an estimator during modulation controls.

Six feet. Comes from the Dutch word "fadom" which was the distance between fingertips of outstretched hands.A unit of measurement relating to the depth of water or to the length of line or cable; one fathom is 6 feet or 1.83 meters

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.")

Sailing with the tiller over to leeward by force of the wind

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

A sailor's trunk; the intake between the ship's side and a sea valve.

A vessel discharges part of its cargo at anchor into a lighter to reduce the vessel's draft so it can then get alongside a pier.

A charge, based on a fixed daily rate.

A line used to tighten the leech of a sail, helping to create proper sail shape.

(1) A wind shift further forward relative to the boats direction or heading. (2) A bar or angle under a deck the same size as deck beams. It is used around stair openings in deck, small hatch openings, or at dead end of longitudinals.

Dining room facilities and kitchen for crew separate from the passenger dining room and kitchen.

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 ...

Capable of keeping out water.

Sea water used for ballast, let into the double bottom, or into a water-ballast tank, or trimming tanks.

That part of a shaft or axle that rotates or angularly oscillates in or against a bearing or about which a bearing rotates or angularly oscillates.

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

Location where shipment begins its movement.