A discharge limit applied to manufacturing and commercial establishments in which only normal human sanitary wastewaters may be discharged to the municipal sewerage system. All other types of wastewater, such as that water used in manufacturing processes, ...

International Maritime Dangerous Goods Code. The regulations published by the IMO for transporting hazardous materials internationally.

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Time charter

Measuring point for compressor acceptance test. Amount of condensate collected in the aftercooler.

Resistance to air flow; usually stated in inches H2O or PSI.

Abbreviation for:- Sight draft.- Sea damage.

Similar to a centerboard, except that it is raised and lowered vertically in a trunk rather than pivoted. Like a keel, daggerboards are used to reduce leeway by preventing a sailboat being pushed sideways by the wind.

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Abbreviation for "Dangerous and Hazardous" cargo.

Used to indicated times measured in Coordinated Universal Time, a successor to Greenwich Mean Time. A time standard that is not affected by time zones or seasons.

Blocks on which the keel of a vessel rests when being built, or when she is in dry dock.

Abbreviation for "Doing Business As." A legal term for conducting business under a registered name.

To back an anchor, is to carry out a smaller one ahead of the one by which the vessel rides, to take off some of the strain. To back a sail, is throw it aback. To back and fill, is alternately to back and fill the sails.

National Committee on International Trade Documentation.

The angle between the zenith and a heavenly body.

Loaded aboard a vessel.

Sacrificial anodes placed on a vessel to prevent electrolysis of vital metal parts.

(Delivered Ex Ship) (...Named Port of Destination):A Term of Sale where the seller fulfills his/her obligation to deliver when the goods have been made available to the buyer on board the ship, uncleared for import at the named port of destination. The se ...

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