Vessel moves to a new area for a new season.

The warehouse or public stores to which samples of imported goods are taken to be inspected, analyzed, weighed, etc. by examiners or appraisers.

(Free On Board) (...Named Port of Shipment):An International Term of Sale that means the seller fulfills his or her obligation to deliver when the goods have passed over the ship's rail at the named port of shipment. This means that the buyer has to bear ...

The direction of an object (with reference to you, your ship, another object).

A method of payment for goods in which cash is paid at the time of order and the transaction becomes binding on both buyer and seller.

A pair of additional backstays temporarily rigged to provide extra support to the masts of square rigged vessels when sailing downwind.

A negatively charged ion.

(1) The edge where the deck joins the hull; top edge of bulwarks. (2) The railing around the deck.

Shipped under rate that includes cost from end of ship's tackle at load port to end of ship's tackle at discharge port.

Area of high barometric pressure where the wind circulates clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere, and counter-clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere. These are fair weather systems with light or moderate winds.

A line used for capsizing the sea anchor and hauling it in.

To enter a port or harbor

The direction at right angles to a ship's heading or the line of her keel

The whole crew.

A group of points to which rates are made the same as or in relation to rates to other points in group.

The volume of a substance passing a point per unit time (e.g., meters per second, gallons per hour, etc.).

An illegal form of discounting or refunding that has the net effect of lowering the tariff price. See also Malpractice.

The amount of work done on or by a system is equal to the amount of energy transferred to or from the system.

To reach the end; to bring one object hard up against another, as when two blocks in a block and tackle arrangement are brought together.

Old name for bunting from which signal and other flags were made.