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

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

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

A depth measuring device.

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

The white froth on the crests of waves.

The action of letting go the sheets of a sailing vessel, thus spilling the wind and reducing the forward motion of the boat.

The part of the rotating element of a dynamic compressor that imparts energy to the flowing medium by means of centrifugal force. It consists of a number of blades mounted so as to rotate with the shaft.

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

To haul in until the line has a strain upon it.

(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.

In sailing, to be lifted by a wind shift that allows your boat to be lifted closer to the wind where by it allows you to sail a shorter distance to the next mark, buoy or finish line

A lubricating oil made with synthetic base stocks.

A stationary vessel carrying a light used for navigation, serving the same purpose as a lighthouse.

Combination minimum pressure valve and check valve.

An air flow caused by a fan that draws air through the heat exchanger core in a uniform pattern to dissipate the sensible heat.

The bearing of an object after magnetic variation has been considered, but without compensation for magnetic deviation.

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.")

Is a gas that follows the perfect gas laws without deviation. There is no such thing, however it is the basis from which calculations are made and corrections applied.

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.