2H : Second Half

A/: Account
A/E: Accept / except
A/F: All Fast
A/S: Alongside
AA: Always Afloat
AAAA: Always afloat always accessible
AAC: Alaska Administrative Code
AAPA: American Association of Port Authority
AAOSA: Always Afloat or Safe Aground. Condition for a vessel whilst in port
AARA: Amsterdam-Antwerp-Rotterdam Area
AASO: Association of American Shipowners
ABAFT: Toword the rear (stern) of the ship. Behind.
ABCU: Automated Bridge Control System For Unattended Engine Room
ABOVE DECK: On the deck (not over it - see ALOFT)
ABS: American Bureau of Shipping
ABT: About
ACCT: Account
ACOT: Advisory Committee of Offshore Technology
ACP: Area Contingency Plan (in Alaska known as the "Unified Plan")
ACS: American Chemical Society
ACS: Arab Classification Society
ADCOM: Address commission
ADDENUM: Additional chartering terms at the end of a charter party
ADEC: Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation
ADF&G: Alaska Department of Fish and Game (State Agency)
ADF: automotive diesel fuel
ADNR: Department of Natural Resources (State Agency)
AFFREIGHTMENT: The hiring of a ship in whole or part
AFRA: Average Freight Rate Assessment
AFSPS: Arrival First Sea Pilot Station (Norway)
AFT: At or towards the stern or rear of a ship
AG: Arabian Gulf
AGROUND:Touching or fast to the bottom
AGW: All going well
AH: Antwerp-Hamburg range
AHL: Australian Hold Ladders
AHS: Annual Hull Survey
AHT: Anchor handling tug
AID: Agency for International Development
AIDSTO NAVIGATION: Artificial objects to supplement natural landmarks indicating safe and unsafe waters
AIMS: American Institute of Merchant Shipping
AK: Alaska
ALLI: Annual Load Line Inspection
ALOFT: Above the deck of the ship
AMD: Average Most Probable Discharge
AMIDSHIPS: In or toward the centre of the ship.
AMS: Annual Machinery Survey
ANCHHORAGE: A place suitable for anchorage in relation to the wind, seas and bottom
ANSI: American National Standards Institute
ANTHAM: Antwerp-Hamburg Range
AOR-E: Atlantic Ocean Region East
AOR-W: Atlantic Ocean Region West
APD&T: Alaska Petroleum Distributors and Transporters
APF: Afloat Prepositioning Force
APG: Arabian Persian Gulf
API: American Petroleum Institute
APS: Arriving pilot station
ARA: Antwerp-Rotterdam-Amsterdam
ARAG: Antwerp-Rotterdam-Amsterdam-Gent
ARBITRATION: Method of settling disputes which is usually binding on parties. A clause usually in a charter party
ARPA: Automatic Radar Plotting Aid
AS: Annual Survey
ASBA: Association of Shipbrokers and Agents (U.S.A.) Inc.
ASF: Asian Shipowners'' Forum
ASPW: Any Safe Port in the World
ASTERN: In the back of the ship , opposite of ahead
ASTM: American Society for Testing and Materials
ATDNSHINC: Any Time Day/Night Sundays and Holidays Included
ATHWARTSHIPS: At right angles to the centreline of the ship.
ATUTC: Actual Times Used to Count Bunker Adjustment Factor. A Fuel Surcharge expressed as a BAF percentage added or subtracted
AUX: Auxiliary
AWB: Air way bill
AWES: Association of Western European Shipbuilders
B/L (Bill of Lading): A document signed by the carrier which acts as a Contract of Affreightment, a receipt and evidence of title to the carg
B/L: Bill of lading
B/S: Bill of sale
B: Beam
BACTAP: But As Close To As Possible
BACKLETTER: Where a seller / shipper issues a 'letter of indemnity' in favour of the carrier in exchange for a clean bill of lading
BAF: Bunker adjustment factor
BALE CAP. : Cubic capacity of a vessels holds to carry packaged for the stability and safety of a shi which is not carriying cargo
BALLAST: stability and safety of a ship which is not carrying cargo.
BAREBOAT CHTR: Owners lease a specific ship and BAREBOAT CHTR. Control its technical management and commercial operations
BBB: Before breaking bulk
BBLS: Barrels
BC: Bulk Carrier
BCM: Bow to Center Manifold
BDI: Both Dates Inclusive
BE: Benzene
BEAM: The maximum breadth of a ship
BEAUFORT: A scale in which the force of the wind is indicated by numbers from 0 to 12
BECU: Billion ECU
BELOW: Beneath the deck
BENDS: Both ends
BFI: Baltic Freight Index
BHD: Bulkhead
BHP: Brake horse power
BI: Both Inclusive
BIA: Best Information Available
BIAC: Business and Industry Advisory Committee
BIFA: British International Freight Association
BIFFEX: Baltic International Freight Futures Exchange
BIMCO: Baltic and International Maritime Council
BISCO: British Iron and Steel Corporation
BLK: Bulk
BLST: Ballast
BLT: Built
BM: Beam
BN: Booking Note
BOB: Bunker on Board
BOC: Bulk Oil Carrier
BOD: Board of Directors
BOFFER: Best Offer
BOSP: Beginning Of Sea Passage
BOW: The forward part of a ship
BR: Brazil
BRKRS: Brokers
BRM: Bridge Resources Management
BROB: Bunkers Remaining on Board
BS/L: Bills of lading
BS: Boiler Survey
BSC: British Shippers Council
BSEA: Black Sea
BSI: British Standards Institution
BSS 1/1: Basis 1 Port to 1 Port
BSS: Basis
BT: Bow Thruster
BTU: British Thermal Unit - 0.252 kcal
BULKHEAD: A vettical partion separating compartments
BUNKERS: Name given for vessels Fuel and Diesel Oil supplies (Originates from coal bunkers)
BUOY: An anchoraged float used for marking a position on the water or a hazardf or a shoal and for mooring
BV: Bureau Veritas
BWAD: Brackish Water Arrival Draft
C&F: Cost and Freight
C.I.S: Commonwealth Independent States (ex Soviet Republics)
C/P: Charter Party
C: Centigrade (Degrees centigrade)
CABAF: Currency and bunker adjustment factor
CAF: Currency Adjustment Factor
CANCL: Cancelling
CAP: Condition Assessment Program
CAS: Condition Assessment Survey
CBFS: Carbon black feed stock
CBFT: Cubic Feet
CBM: Cubic meters
CBS: Cyprus Bureau of Shipping
CCC: Communist Controlled Countries
CCC: Customs Cooperation Council
CDI: Chemical Distribution Institute
CF: Cubic feet
CFR: Cost and freight
CFS: Container freight station
CFT: Cubic Feet
CGO: Cargo
CHART: A map used by navigators
CHOPT: Charterer''s option
CHRTS: Charterers
CHS: Continuous Survey of Hull
CHTRS: Charterers
CIF: Cost insurance and freight
CIP: Carriage and insurance paid to
CKD: Completely knocked down
CLC: Civil Liability Convention (And 1992 Protocols)
CM: centimeter
CMF: Composite Meter Factor
CMI: Committee Maritime International
CMPL: Completed
CMS: Continuous Survey of Machinery
CNG: Compressed Natural Gas
COA: contract of affreightment
COACP: Contract of Affreightment Charter Party
COB: Close of Business
COBLDN: Close of Business of London
COD: Cash on delivery
COF: Certificate of Fitness
COFR/CA: Certificate of Financial Responsibility (OPA 90) for California
COFR: Certificate of Financial Responsibility (OPA 90)
COGSA: Carriage of goods by sea act
COH: Cuba, Orinoco River and Haiti
COMS: Commissions
CONGESTION: Port / berth delays
CONS: Consumption
C/SNEE: CONSIGNEE . Name of agent, company,or a person receiving consignment
CONT: Continent
Contract of Affreightment: Owners agree to accept a cost
COP: Custom of the port
COTP: Captain Of The Port (Coast Guard)
COW: Crude Oil Washing
CP: Charter Party
CPD: Charterers Pay Dues
CPP: Clean petroleum product
CPR: Cardia-Pulmonary Respiration
CPT: Captain
CQD: Customary quick despatch
CR: Current Rate
CRN: Crane
CRNS: Cranes
CROB: Cargo Remaining on Board
CRT: Cargo Retention Clauses
CSC: Container safety convention
CSH: Cargo ship
CST: Centistokes
CT: Cargo Tank
CT: Chemical tanker
CT: Combined transport
CTL: Constructive total loss
CTR: Container Fitted
CUFT: Cubic feet
CWA: Clean Water Act
CYL: Cylinders
D.F.: Dead freight
D: Depth
DA: Disbursement accounts
DAF: Delivered at frontier
Damages for Detention: Penalty if cargo is not ready when
DAMFORDET: ship arrives for working (1st day of Lay can). This is not detention which is charged for ships time on delay. If the cargo is
DAP: Dia-ammonium sulphate
DAPS: Days all Purposes (Total days for loading & discharging)
DB: Double-Bottom
DD: Dry dock
DDP: Delivered duty paid
DDU: Delivered duty unpaid
DECK: A permanent covering over a compartment, hull or any part of thereof
DEL: Delete
DELY: Delivery
DEM: Demurrage
Demurrage: (Quay Rent). Money paid by the shipper for the occupying port space beyond a specified _Free Time period.
Depth: The depth to which a ship is immersed in water.
DEQ: Delivered ex-quay
DES: Delivered ex-ship
DESP: Dispatch
DET Detention: (See DAMFORDET)
DEV: Deviation
DF: Dead freight
DHDATSBE: Dispatch Half Demurrage on All Time Saved Both Ends
DHDWTSBE: Dispatch Half Demurrage on Working Time Saved Both Ends
DIMS: Dimensions
DIS: Danish International Ship Register
DISCH: Discharge
DISP: Displacement
DK: Deck
DLOSP: Dropping last outward sea pilot
DNRCAOSLONL: Discount less and Non-Returnable Cargo and/or Ship Lost or Not Lost
DNV: Det Norske Veritas (Norwegian Class Society)
DO: Diesel oil
DOC: Document of compliance (ism)
DOLSP: Dropping Off Last Sea Pilot (Norway)
DOP: Dropping Outward Pilot
DOT: Department of Transport
DPA: Designated person ashore (ism)
DPOR: Division of Parks and Outdoor Recreation (ADNR)
DPP: Dirty petroleum products
DRAUGHT: (or varies according to the design of the ship and will be DRAFT) greater or lesser depending not only on the weight of the s
DRFT: Draft
DRK: Derrick Materials of various types, often timber or matting, placed among the cargo for separation, and hence
DRX: Hellenic Drachma (currency)
DUNNAGE: protection from damage, for ventilation and, in the case of certain cargoes, to provide space in which the types of a fork lift t
DUR: Duration
DWAT: Deadweight. Weight of cargo, stores and water, i.e. the difference between lightship and loaded displacement.
DWT: Deadweight
EBB: A receedingcurrent
EC: East Coast
ECDIC: Electronic Chart Display and Information System
ECGB: East Coast Great Britain
ECS: Electronic Chart System
ECSA: East Coast South America
ECU: European currency units
ECUK: East Coast United Kingdom
EDRC: Effective Daily Recovery Capacity
EFTA: European Free Trade Association
EGY: Egypt
EIU: Even if used
ELVENT: Electric Ventilation
EMD: Emergency Management Division
EPA: United States Environmental ProtectionAgency
EPIRB: Emergency position indicating radio beacon
ER: Engine room
ESP: Enhanced Survey Program
ESQA: Environment, Safety and Quality Assurance (CMS)
ETA: Estimated time of arrival
ETC: Expected time of commencement (or completion)
ETD: Estimated time of departure
ETS: Estimated time of sailing
EXCL: Excluding
EXW: Ex-works
FAC: Fast as can
FAS: Free alongside ship
FB: Ferry boat
FCA: First carrier
FCC: First class charterers
FCR: Floating crane
FD&D: Freight deadfreight & demurrage
FD: Free despatch
FDD: Freight demurrage defence (P&I)
FDEOCL: Freight deemed earned on completion loading
FDESP: Free Dispatch
FDIS: Free Discharge
FENDER: A cushion, placed between ships or between a ship and a pier, to prevent damage
FERTS: Fertilizers
FEU: Standard 40_ Container
FFA: Fat free acid
FFA: Forward freight agreement
FFXD: Fully fixed
FHEX: Fridays holidays excluded
FHINC: Fridays holidays included
FIFO: First in first out
FILO: Free In/Liner Out. Sea freight with which the shipper pays load costs and the carrier pays for discharge costs. Free In/Out. Freight
FIO: Free In and Out
FIOS: Free In/Out Stowed. As per FIO, but includes stowage costs.
FIOST: Free In / Out and Trimmed
FIT: Free In Trimmed
FIW: Free In Wagon
FIXING: Chartering a Vessel
FIXTURE: Conclusion of shipbrokers negotiations to charter a ship - an agreement
FLATPACKING: Cargo to be presented stacked and secured as an integral unit.
FLG: Flag
FLT: Full Liner Terms
FMC: Federal Maritime Commission
FME: Force Majeure Excepted
FMS: Fathoms
FMSS: Full Mission Shiphandling Simulator
FO: Fuel oil
FO1: For orders
FO2: Free out
FOB: Free On Board
FOFFER: Firm Offer
FOG: For Our Guidance
FOQ: Free On Quay
FOR: Free On Rail
FORCE MAJEUR: Clause limiting responsibilities of the charterers, shippers and receivers of cargo.
FOSC: Federal On-Scene Commander
FOT: Free On Truck
FOW1: First Open Water
FOW2: Free On Wharf
FP: Free Pratique. Clearance by the health Authorities
FPA: Free of particular average
FPSO: Floating Production Storage and Offloading
FPT: Fore peak tank
FR: France
FR: Freight
FREEBOARD: The minimum vertical distance from the surface of the water to the gunwale
FREE DESPATCH: If loading/discharging achieved sooner than agreed, there will be no freight money returned.
FREE EXINS: Free of any Extra insurance(owners)
Free In/Out and Trimmed: Charterer pays for cost of FIOST loading/discharging cargo, including stowage and trimming.
FREE OUT: Free of discharge costs to owners. Includes sea freight only.
Free to Carrier: A modern equivalent of FAS used in FCA intermeddle transport where goods are transferred at a nominated forwarder pr
FRGHT: Freight
FRUSTRATION: Charterers when cancelling agreement sometimes quote 'doctrine of frustration' i. E. Vessel losr , extensive delays
FSO: Fleet safety officer (ism)
FT3: Cubic Feet
FTC: Free transferable currency
FW: Fresh water
FWA: Fresh water allowance
FWAD: Fresh water arrival draft
FWD: Forward
FWDD: Fresh water departure draft
FWE: Finished With Engine
FWPCA: Federal Water Pollution Control Act
FXD: Fixed
FYG: For your guidance
FYI: For Your Information
GA: General average
GAL: Gallon
GATT: General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
GCN: Gencon
GEAR: A general term for ropes, blocks, tackle and other equipment
GEO: Geographical (rotation)
GIB: Gibraltar
GL: Germanischer Lloyd
GLS: Gearless
GMDSS: Global Maritime Distress and Safety System
GMT: Greenwich mean time
GN: Grain (capacity)
GNCN: Gencon (General Conditions)
GO: Gas oil
GOM: Gulf of Mexico
GP: Grain Capacity. Cubic capacity in 'grain'
GPS: Global Positioning System Satellite
GR: Grain (capacity)
GRD: Geared
GRP: Geographic Response Plan (generally appended to ACPs)
GRS: Geographic Response Strategies (generally appended to ACPs/GRPs)
GRT: Gross register tons
GRT: Net register tons
GSB: Good Safe Berth
GSP: Good Safe Port
GSPD: Good safe port berth
GSV: Gross Standard Volume
GT: Gross tons
GTEE: Guarantee
GUNWALE: The upper edge of a ship's sides
H.S.A.: Hellenic Shipbrokers Association
HA: Hatch
HAGUE RULES: Code of minimum conditions for the carriage of cargo under a bill of lading
HATCH: An opening in a ship's deck fitted with a watertight cover
HBF: Harmless Bulk fertilizer
HBL: Hydrostatically Balanced Loading
HDLTSBENDS: half Despatch lay Time Saved Both Ends
HDWTS: Half Dispatch Working (or Weather) Time Saved
HF: High Frequency
HFO: Heavy fuel oil
HH: Hold hatches
HHDW: Handy Heavy d.w. (scrap)
HKG: Hong Kong
HMS: Heavy Metal Scraps
HMT: Hazardous Materials Technician
HO: Hold
HP: Horsepower of High-Pressure
HRS: Hellenic Register of Shipping
HRS: Hours
HSFO: high sulphur fuel oil
HVPQ: Harmonized Vessel Particulars Questionnaire
HW: High Water
I.M.C.: Lloyd''s Machinery Certificate
I/O: Instead of
IACS: International Association of Classification Societies
IAW: In Accordance With
IC: Incident Commander
ICC: International Chamber of Commerce
ICS: Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers
ICS: International Chamber of Shipping
ICW: Intercoastal Waterway
IFO: Intermediate fuel oil
IGS: Inert Gas System
IHP: Indicated hourse power
ILOHC: In lieu of holds cleaning
ILOW: In lieu of weight
IMCO: Intergovernment maritime commission
IMDG CODE: International Maritime Dangerous Goods Code
IMDG: International Maritime Dangerous Goods
IMO: International Maritime Organization
IMT: CMS -Incident Management Team
IN&/OR OVER: Goods carried below or on deck
INCL: Including
INCO TERMS: Internaitonal commercial terms
IND: Indication
INNNGWB: If New York, not north of George Washington bridge
INS: Insert
INTERMODAL: Carriage of a commodity by different modes of transport, i.e. sea, road, rail and air within a single journey.
IOPC: International Oil Pollution Compensation Fund (See CLC)
IOPP: International Oil Pollution Prevention Certificate
IOR: Indian Ocean Region
ISF: International Safety Federation
ISGOTT: International Safety Guide for Oil Tankers and Terminals
ISIS: Integrated Ship Inspection System (see CDI)
ISM: International Safety Management
ISO: International Standards Organization
ITC: International Tonnage Certificate
ITF: International Transport Workers Fedration
ITOPF: International Tanker Owners Pollution Federation
IU: If Used
IUHTAUTC: If Used, Half Time Actually To Count
IWL: Institute Warranties Limits
JET: Jet fuel
JPN: Japan
JV: Joint Venture
KEEL: The centreline of a ship runnig fore and aft;the backbone of a vessel
KERO: Kerosene
KNOT: A measurement of speed equal to one nautical mile(6,076feet)per hour
KR: Korea
KTM: Keel To Mast
L.B.H.: Length / breadth / height
L.T: Long tons
L/C: Lay can
L/C: Letter of credit
L/D: Loading / discharging
LA: Los Angeles (USA)
LANE METER: whereby each unit of space (Linear Meter) is represented by an area of deck 1.0 meter in length x 2.0 meters in width.
LASH: To hold goods in position by use of Ropes, Wires, Chains or Straps etc.
LAT: Latitude
LAYTIME: Time at Charterers disposalfor purpose of loading /discharging
LB: pounds
LBP: Length between perpendiculars
LC: Lay Can
LC: Letter of credit
LCR: Lowest current rate
LDD: Leaded
LDG: Loading
LEE: The side sheltered from the wind
LEEWAY: the side ways movement of the ship caused by either wind or current
LF: Load factor
LGC: Liquified gas carrier
LHAR: London, Hull, Antwerp, Rotterdam range
LIEN. Retention of property until outstanding debt is paid
LNG: Liquefied Natural Gas
LOA: Length over all
LOF: Lloyds Open From
LOG: A record of courses or operation. Also , a device to measure speed
LOI: Letter of Indemnity
LONG: Longtitude
LOP: Letter of Protest
LOT: Load On Top
LOW: Last Open Water
LPG: Liquified petroleum gas
LPGC: Liquified petroleum gas carrier
LR: Lloyds Register
LR: Long range
LS: Light ship
LS: Lump sum
LSD: Lashed Secured Dunn aged
LT: Liner Terms
LT2: Long Ton=1,016.05kilogram(2,240Ibs)
LUBS: Lubricants
LW: Low Water
LYCN: Lay can (Lay day Canceling Date)
M.: Meters
M.E.: Main engine
M/S: Motor ship
M/V: Motor vessel
M/Y: Motor yacht
M3: Cubic meters
MANIFEST: Inventory of cargo on board
MARPOL: Marine Pollution Prevention (International Convention)
MARS: Nautical Institute Marine Accident Reporting System
MAXBACTAP: Max But As Close To As Possible
MB: Merchant Broker
MDO: Marine Diesel Oil
ME: Main engine
MED: Mediterranean
MEG: Middle East Gulf
MESA: Most Environmentally Sensitive Area
MGA: Master''s general account
MGO: Marine gas oil
MIC: Man in charge
MID: Middle
MIN/MAX OR: Minimum / maximum
MIN/MAX: Minimum/Maximum (cargo quantity)
MIP: Marine insurance policy
MISC: Miscellaneous
MLC: Meters of Liquid Column
MMPD: Maximum Most Probable Discharge
MOA: Memorandum of Agreement (S&P)
MOL: More or less
MOLCHOPT: More or less in charterers'' option
MOLOO: More or less in owners'' option
MOU PARIS: Memorandum of Understanding (Paris)
MOU: Memorandum of Understanding
MPP: Multi-purpose (type of ship)
MR: Medium range
MRA: Marine Response Alliance
MSDS: Material Safety Data Sheet
MSO: Marine Safety Office (U.S. Coast Guard)
MSRC: Marine Spill Response Corporation
MT: Metric Tons
MTHS: Months
MV: Motor vessel
MWC: Meter Water Column
N/A: Not applicable / Not acceptable / Not available
N/B: New Building
NA: Not applicable / Not acceptable / Not available
NAA: Not always afloat
NAABSA: Not always afloat but safely aground
NAP: Naphta
NCB: National Cargo Bureau
NCP: National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan
NCR: Non-conformance report (ism)
NCV: No commercial value
NDFCAPMQS: No deadfreight for Charterers account provided minimum quantity supplied
NEOBIG: Not east of but including Greece
NEOBIGEAYF: Not east of but including Greece and excluding Albania, Yoguslavia and former Yoguslavia
NEOBIGEYFY: Not east of but including Greece and excluding Yoguslavia and former Yoguslavia and Albania
NG: Nigeria
NHC: No heat crude
NHP: Nominal horse power
NKK: Nippon Kaiji Kyokai
NM: Nautical Mile
NNOGWB: Not North Of George Washington Bridge
NO: Number
NOAA: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NOBL: Not On Banned List
NON-REVERSIBLE: then saved days will not be added to discharge time allowed.
NOR: Notice of readiness
NRC: National Response Centre
NRT: Net Restricted Tonnage
NT: Net tons
NVIC: Navigation and Vessel Inspection Circular (USCG publication)
NVOCC: Non-Vessel Operating Common Carrier
NY: New York
NYPE: New York Produce Exhange (charter party)
OA: Over aged
OBO: Oil bulk ore
OBQ: OnBoard Quantity (before loading)
OCD: Olio Combustibile Denso (Fuel oil)
OCIMF: Oil Companies International Marine Forum
OD: Outside diameter
ODPCP: Oil Discharge Prevention and Contingency Plan
OHA: Office of History and Archaeology (ADNR)
ONW: Onwards
OO: Owners Option
OOC: Ore oil carrier
OPA 90: Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (U.S.)
OPT: Option
OSH: Open Shelter Deck
OSIC: On-Scene Incident Commander
OSRO: Oil Spill Removal Organization
OVERBOARD: Over the side or out of the ship
OWS: Owners
P&C: Private & Confidential
P&I: Protection and indemnity (club)
P.P.I: Policy proof of interest
P/E: Purchase enquiry
P/F: Proforma
P/L: Partial loss
P/N: Promissory note
PA: Particular average
PAN: Panama
PANDI: Protection and indemnity (club)
PASTUS: Past Us
PB: Permanent bunkers
PC: Product carrier
PCGO: Part Cargo
PCT: Percent
PD: Per day or port dues
PDPR: Per Day Pro Rata
PER SE: By Itself
PERDIEM: By the Day
PFD: Personal Floatation Device
PHIL: Philippines
PHPD: Per Hatch Per Day
PIC: Person In Charge of vessel or barge
PLS: Please
PMO: Passing muscat outbound
PMQS: Provided minimum quantity supplied
PMT: Per metric ton
POC: Pacific Ocean Region
POD: Paid on delivery
POSN: Position
PPE: Personnel Protective Equipment
PPM: Parts Per Million
PPSE: Propose
PPT: Prompt
PR: Polski Rajestr Statkow
PRAC: Primary Response Action Contractor
PRATIQUE: License or permission to use a port
PREP: National Preparedness for Response Exercise Program
PRT: Port
PSC: Port state control
PSI: Pounds Per Square Inch
PSIX: Port State Information Exchange (USCG)
PT: Product tanker
PTON: Per ton
PUS: Plus us
PWWD: Per Weather Working Day
PY: Py-gas
QAR: Quality assurance representative (ism)
QI: Qualified Individual (OPA 90)
QTE: Quote
R/V: Round voyage
RAC: Response Action Contractor
RCP: Federal Region Oil & Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan
RCRA: Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
RCVR: Receivers (Detention). If loading completed sooner than expected at REVERSIBLE load port, then days saved can be added to d
RD: Running days
RDC: Running down clause
RDLY: Redelivery
RDR: Radar
RECAP: Recapitulation of the terms and conditions agreed
REDELY: Redelivery
REF: Reference
REG: Regarding
REP: Representative
REQ: Require
RGE: Range
RINA: Registro Italiano
RMO: Regional Marine Operations
RND: Round voyage
RNG: Range
ROB: ##### amount, multiplied by the freight rate.
RORO: Roll On/Roll Off
RPS: Response Planning Standard
RQRD: Required
RRT: Regional Response Team
S&P BRKR: Sale and purchase broker
S.S.: Special survey
S/S/R/CMA: Stem, suppliers, receivers, charterers management
S/S: Steamship
SAR: Search And Rescue
SATCOM: Satellite Communication
SATNAV: Satellite Navigation
SATPM: Saturday P.M.
SATSHEX OR: Saturdays Sundays Holidays excluded
SATSHEX: Saturdays, Sundays, Holidays Excluded
SB: Safe berth
SBM: Single buoy mooring
SBT/PL: Segregated Ballast Tanks Protectively Located
SBT: Segregated Ballast Tanks
SCAC: Standard carrier alpha code
SCP: Sub-area Contingency Plan (10 regional plans that supplement the AK Unified Plan)
SD: Single Decker
SDWT: Summer Deadweight
SEAFREIGHT: Costs charged for transporting goods over the sea. This SEAFREIGHT does not cover any haulage or loading/dischargin
SELFD: Self Discharging
SEMI-TRAILERS: Are usually 12.0 meter flatbed road trailers
SF: Stowage factor. Cubic space (measurement tonne) occupied by one tonne (2,240 lbs/1,000 kegs) of cargo.
SG: Specific gravity
SHEX: Sundays Holidays Excluded
SHINC: Sundays Holidays included
SHPO: State Historic Preservation Office (or Officer)
SID: Single Decker
SIRE: Ship Inspection Report Programme (see OCIMF)
SMC: Safety Management Certificate (ism)
SMM: Safety Management Manual (ism)
SMS: Safety Management System
SOB: Shipped on board
SOC: Shipper Owned Container
SOF: Statement of facts
SOLAS: Safety of Life At Sea
SOPEP: Shipboard oil pollution emergency plan (ism)
SOSC: State On-Scene (On-Site) Commander
SP: safe port
SPM: Single Point Mooring System
SPORE: Singapore
SPT: Spot
SR: Soviet Register
SRBL: Signing and Releasing Bill of Lading
SRC: Slops Receiving Station
SRT: Spill Response Team
SS: Stainless Steel
SSC: Scientific Support Coordinator
SSHEX: Saturdays, Sundays, Holidays Excluded
SSHINC: (or SATSHINC) Saturdays, Sundays, Holidays Included
ST: Side tank
STARBOARD: Right side of a ship when facing the front or forward end
STBD: Starboard
STCW: International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification, and Watchkeeping for Seafarers, 1978
STDS: Standards
STEM: Subject to existence of merchandise
STERN: The foremost part of a ship
STEW CONVE: International convention on standards of training certification and watch-keeping for seafarers
STEWCODE: Seafarers training certification and watch-keeping
STG: Salvage tug
STL: Steel
STS: ship to ship
SUB: Subject to existence of merchandise
SUBS: Subjects
SWAD: Salt water arrival draft
SWD: Salt water draft
SWDD: Salt water departure draft
SWL: Safe working load
SYNA: Synacomex
T/L: Total loss
TBN: To Be Nominated
TBOOK: To the Best Of Owners Knowledge
TC: Time charter
TCL: tankcleaning
TCV: Total Calcuated Volume
TEU: Twenty feet equivalent unit
TG: Tug
Time Charter: Owners agree to hire a particular ship for TC a set length of time and provide technical management, crewing etc.
TNGE: Tonnage
TNS / TS: Tons
TOVALOP: Tanker Owners Voluntary Agreement concerning Liability for Oil Pollution
TPC: Tons per centimeter
TPH:Ton per Hour
TPI: Tons per inch
TTL: Total
TW: Twin Decker
UCE: Unexpected circumstances excluded
UHF: Ultra High Frequency Band Radio
UK/CONT: United Kingdom / continent range
UK: United Kingdom
UKC: United Kingdom Continent
ULCC: Ultra large crude carrier
UMS: Unleaded motor spirits
UND: Undarker
UNL: Unleaded
UNQT: Unquote
USA: United States of America
USAC: United States Atlantic Coast
USC: Unless Sooner Commenced
USCG: United States Coast Guard
USD: United States Dollars
USEC: United States East Coast
USFWS: United States Fish and Wildlife Service
USG: United States Gulf
USWC: United States West Coast
UU: Unless Used
UUIWCTAUTC: Unless Used In Which Case Time Actually Used To Count
VAT: Value Added Tax
VCF: Volume Correction Factor
VEF: Vessel Experience Factor
VEG: Vegetable oil
VHF: Very High Frequency Band Radio
VLCC: Very large crude carrier
VMS: Vessel Management Services, Inc. (subsidiary of CMC)
VOL: Volume
VPD: Vessel Pays Dues
VPQ: Vessel Particulars Questionnaire
VRP: Vessel Response Plan
WAF: West Africa
WB: Water ballast
WBT: Water Ballast Tank
WC: West coast
WCCON: Whether Customs Cleared Or Not
WCD: Worst Case Discharge
WCI: West Coast India
WCSA: West Coast South America
WECCON: Whether entered customs clearance or not
WECHON: Whether entered customs house or not
WIBON: Whether in berth or not
WICCON: Whether in cargo clearance or not
WIFPON: Whether in free pratique or not
WIPON: Whether in port or not
WLTHC: Waterline to Hatch Coaming
WLTM: water level to manifold
WLTOHC: (distance) Water Line-To-Hatch Coming
WOG: Without guarantee
WP: Weather permitting
WPD: Weather Permitting Day
WR: War risks
WR: Without responsibility
WRIC: Wire Rods In Coils
WS: World scale
WSHTC: World scale hours terms and conditions
WSNP: Weather and safe navigation permitting
WVNS: Within vessels natural segregation
WW: Worldwide
WWD: Weather Working Day
WWR: When, Where Ready
WWWW: Wibon, Wccon, Wifpon, Wipon
Y/A: York Antwerp (rule)
YAW: to swing or steer off course , as when running with a quartering sea
YUGO: Yugoslavia
Z: Zulu (Greenwich Mean Time)