Present a rate proposal to a conference meeting for adoption as a conference group rate.

Instructions given by a shipper to a bank indicating that documents transferring title to goods should be delivered to the buyer only upon the buyer's acceptance of the attached draft.

An indication on a draft that the documents attached are to be released to the drawee only on payment.

Screen of cloth or other material to give the crew protection against the weather, wind and water spray.

Heavy latch by which doors, hatches, portholes, etc., are secured; verb - to latch

see Watch

An old salt I know uses this term in reference to a "tangled mess of lines".

The short deckhouse or main hatchway which is raised above the level of the cabin top or coachroof.

The area of calm which lies inside the trade winds near the equator.

The belt on each side of the Equator in which little or no wind ordinarily blows.

A set of wheels that support the front of a container; used when the automotive unit is disconnected.

A mooring buoy or spar. A group of piles driven close together and bound with wire cables into a single structure.

A cluster of piles for mooring.

A short spar under the cap of the bowsprit used for holding down a jib boom.

A steam boiler on a ship deck used to supply steam to deck machinery when the main boilers are shut down.

An auxiliary engine used for furnishing power for a variety of small mechanical chores.

The structure on deck where the donkey engine is located.

Merchant seaman's name for his bed or mattress.

Through transportation of a container and its contents from consignor to consignee. Also known as House to House. Not necessarily a through rate.

Dioctylphalate aerosol (Efficiency Test Material).