Updated and expanded, this new edition of Peter Brodie's dictionary provides a reference tool for all of those who use or operate cargo ships, both tramp and liner, or who are concerned with their use.

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Abbreviations and Acronyms
• A
• Abaft
• Abeam
• Able seaman
• Accept except
• Accomplish a bill of lading (to)
• Accomplished bill of lading
• Acid tanker
• Act of God
• Actual time used to count
• Ad valorem freight
• Addendum (to a charter-party)
• Additional demurrage
• Additional freight
• Address commission
• Aden Gulf Surcharge or Aden Piracy Risk Surcharge
• Adjustment
• Admissible as general average
• Advance call
• Advance Cargo Manifest Rule
• Advance Commercial Information
• Advance freight
• Advance on freight
• Advance to master
• Advice note
• Affreightment
• Aframax
• Aft
• Aft peak tank or after peak tank
• After end
• Agency clause
• Agency fee
• Agent
• Agribulk (products)
• Aground
• Air bag
• Air draught
• All in rate
• All purposes
• All time saved
• All time used to count
• Alliance
• Allotment (of wages)
• Allotment note
• Allowable as general average
• Alternate holds
• Alumina
• Alumina carrier
• Aluminium
• Always afloat
• American Bureau of Shipping
• Amidships
• Ammonia tanker or ammonia carrier
• Amwelsh 93
• Anchorage
• Anchorage dues
• Angle of repose
• Annual survey
• Any time day or night
• Apron
• Arbitrate (to)
• Arbitration
• Arbitration award
• Arbitration clause
• Arbitrator
• Area differential
• Arrest (of a ship)
• Arrest a ship (to)
• Arrival pilot station
• Arrived ship
• Articles of agreement
• Artificial tween deck
• As is
• As is, where is
• Asphalt tanker
• Astern
• Athwartships
• Austral
• Austwheat 1990
• Austwheatbill
• Authorised Economic Operator
• Automatic guided vehicle or automated guided vehicle or automatically guided vehicle
• Automatic stacking crane
• Autonomous port
• Average
• Average (to) (laytime)
• Average adjuster
• Average bond
• Average freight rate assessments
• Average guarantee
• Axial stern ramp
• B
• Back load
• Back to back
• Back to back charter
• Backfreight
• Backhaul
• Bag in box
• Bagging plant
• Bail
• Bale or bale capacity
• Ballast
• Ballast (to)
• Ballast bonus
• Ballast leg
• Ballast tank
• Baltcon
• Baltic and International Maritime Council
• Baltic Mercantile & Shipping Exchange
• Baltime 1939 (revised 2001)
• Baltimore Form C
• Banana carrier
• Banana terminal
• Bar
• Bar draught
• Bareboat charter
• Bareboat charter
• Bareboat charter (to)
• Bareboat charterer
• Bareboat charter-party
• Barecon 2001
• Barge
• Barge (to)
• Barge-carrying ship
• Barratry
• Barrel handler
• Barrier seal
• Base cargo
• Base cargo
• Base rate
• Batten down the hatches (to)
• Bays, rows and tiers
• Beam
• Bearer (of a bill of lading)
• Bearer bill of lading
• Beaufort Scale
• Before breaking bulk
• Beneficial cargo owner
• Berth
• Berth (to)
• Berth charter-party
• Berth dues
• Berth standard of average clause
• Berth terms
• Berthage
• Berthing dues
• Berthing window
• Bilge
• Bilge keel
• Bill
• Bill of health
• Bill of lading
• Bill of lading to order
• Bimchemtime
• Bimchemvoy
• Bimchemvoybill
• BIMCO Hazardous Materials Inventory Clause
• BIMCO Standard Bunker Contract
• Bimcosale
• Bimodal
• Bimodal system
• Biro Klasifikasi Indonesia
• Biscoilvoy
• Biscoilvoybill
• Bitumen carrier
• Black list
• Black products
• Blackseawood
• Blackseawoodbill
• Blank endorsed bill of lading
• Bleeding wing tank
• Block
• Block exemption
• Block stow (to)
• Block stowage
• Board feet
• Board sling
• Boat note
• Boatman
• Boatmaster
• Boatmaster's certificate
• Boatmaster's licence
• Bogie
• Bolero
• Bollard
• Bollard pull
• Bolt seal
• Bonded store or bonded warehouse
• Book space (to)
• Booking
• Booking list
• Booking note
• Boom handler
• Boom (of a derrick)
• Boom (of a fork-lift truck)
• Both ends
• Both to blame collision clause
• Bottle screw
• Bottom
• Bottom side rail
• Bottom stow cargo
• Bottomry
• Bow door
• Bow ramp
• Bow shackle
• Bow thruster
• Bow wing doors
• Bows
• Box
• Box
• Box hold vessel
• Box pallet
• Box rate
• Boxchange
• Boxlease
• Boxship
• Boxtime 2004
• BPTime3
• Brackish water
• Break bulk (to)
• Breakbulk
• Breakwater
• Bridge crane
• Bridge plate or bridging plate
• Britcont
• Britcont
• Broke (to)
• Broken stowage
• Brokerage
• Brussels Tariff Nomenclature
• Bucket elevator
• Bulbous bow
• Bulk bag
• Bulk cargo
• Bulk carrier
• Bulk carrier safety clause
• Bulk container
• Bulk discharge open top container
• Bulk newsprint carrier
• Bulk Shipping Quality Clause for Voyage Charter Parties
• Bulk/container carrier
• Bulker
• Bulkhead
• Bulkhead door
• Bulk/oil carrier
• Bulk/ore carrier
• Bulwark
• Bunker (to)
• Bunker adjustment factor
• Bunker barge
• Bunker broker
• Bunker C
• Bunker delivery note
• Bunker deviation clause
• Bunker escalation clause
• Bunker Fuel Sulphur Content Clause for Time Charter Parties 2005
• Bunker price adjustment clause
• Bunker rise clause
• Bunker stem
• Bunker surcharge
• Bunkering port
• Bunkers
• Buoy
• Buoy berth
• Buoyage
• Bureau Veritas
• Butane carrier
• C
• Cable seal
• Cable ship
• Cabotage
• Cabotage
• Calf dozer
• Call
• Call
• Call forward (to) (cargo)
• Call forward (to) (vehicles)
• Call rate
• Call sign
• Calling-in-point
• Can hooks
• Canal transit dues
• Cancellation (of a charter)
• Cancellation clause
• Cancelling Clause 2002
• Cancelling date
• Cantilever jib crane
• Canvas sling
• Capacity plan
• Capesize
• Captain
• Car carrier
• Car deck
• Car equivalent unit
• Car ferry
• Car ramp
• Car sling
• Car terminal
• Careen (to)
• Cargo
• Cargo
• Cargo battens
• Cargo handling gear clause
• Cargo hook
• Cargo net
• Cargo plan
• Cargo sharing
• Cargo superintendent
• Cargo sweat
• Cargo tank
• Cargo tracer
• Cargo transport unit
• Cargoworthiness
• Cargoworthy
• Carpenter
• Carriage of Nuclear Materials clause
• Carrier
• Carryings
• Cars knocked down
• Carton clamps
• Case dogs or case hooks
• Cash against documents
• Cassette
• Cassette carrier
• Cassette trailer
• Category 1 tankers
• Category 2 tankers
• Category 3 tankers
• Cattle carrier
• Ceiling
• Cell
• Cell guide
• Cellular barge
• Cellular containership
• Cellular double-bottom
• Cellular palletwide container
• Cement
• Cement carrier
• Cement terminal
• Cementvoy
• Centistokes
• Centre tank
• Centre-line bulkhead
• Centrifugal thrower
• Certificate of entry
• Certificate of seaworthiness
• Certificated officer
• Cesser clause
• Chain sling
• Change of destination charge
• Chart datum
• Charter
• Charter
• Charter (to)
• Charter bill of lading
• Charter by demise
• Charter by demise (to)
• Charter in (to)
• Charter out (to)
• Charter party
• Charterable
• Charterer
• Charterer by demise
• Charterer's agent
• Charterer's bill of lading
• Chartering agent
• Charter-party
• Charter-party bill of lading
• Chassis
• Chemical tanker
• China Classification Society
• China Corporation Register of Shipping
• Chinamax
• Chock (to)
• C-hook
• Claims adjuster
• Clamp
• Clamp truck
• Class
• Class
• Classification certificate
• Classification register
• Classification society
• Classification society certificate
• Classification survey
• ClassNK
• Clause paramount
• Claused bill of lading
• Clean bill of lading
• Clean (petroleum) products
• Clean receipt
• Clean the holds (to)
• Cleaning of Cargo Compartments Clause
• Clear days
• Clearance outwards
• Clingage
• Clip-on unit
• Close (to)
• Closed conference
• Closed shelter-deck ship or closed shelter-decker
• Closing date
• Closure of navigation
• Cluster
• CO2 fitted
• Coal
• Coal terminal
• Coal-Orevoy
• Coal-Orevoybill
• Coaming
• Coaster
• Coasting broker
• Coastwise
• Cocoa
• Code of safe practice for solid bulk cargoes
• Coffee terminal
• Cofferdam
• Coil carrier
• Coil hook
• Coil mat
• Coil tongs
• Coiling hatch cover
• Collapsible flatrack
• Collapsible mast
• Collier
• Co-loader
• Combiconbill
• Combiconwaybill
• Combinable cranes
• Combination carrier
• Combined transport bill of lading or combined transport document
• Come forward (to)
• Come forward (to)
• Comité Maritime International
• Commodity box rate
• Common berth or common user berth
• Common carrier
• Common short form bill of lading
• Co-modality
• Completely knocked down
• Compressed natural gas carrier
• Compulsory pilotage
• Conair container
• Conbulker
• Condensation
• Cone
• Conference
• Conference secretariat
• Conference terms
• Congenbill
• Congestion
• Congestion surcharge
• Conlease
• Conlinebill
• Conlinebooking
• Con-ro ship
• Consecutive voyages
• Consign (to)
• Consignee
• Consignment
• Consignment
• Consignment note
• Consignor
• Consolidation
• Consolidator
• Consortium
• Constants
• Constructive total loss
• Consulage
• Consular invoice
• Consumption (of bunkers)
• Contact inhibitor
• Container
• Container barge
• Container berth
• Container capacity
• Container code recognition
• Container Freight Derivatives Association
• Container freight station
• Container handler
• Container head
• Container leasing
• Container load plan
• Container number
• Container on flatcar
• Container port
• Container rain
• Container ramp
• Container Security Initiative
• Container ship
• Container stripping boom
• Container terminal
• Container yard
• Containerable or containerisable
• Container/barge carrier
• Container/bulk carrier
• Containerisation
• Containerise (to)
• Containerise (to)
• Containerised
• Containerised
• Container/pallet carrier
• Containers Clause 2002
• Containership
• Contamination (of cargo)
• Continent Grain Charter-party
• Continuous ship unloader
• Contract of affreightment
• Contractor
• Contributory value
• Controlled atmosphere (CA) container
• Convention on the Contract for the International Carriage of Goods by Road
• Conventional
• Conveyor belt
• Convoy
• Copy bill of lading
• Core probe
• CORE7
• Corner casting or corner fitting
• Corner post
• Corner protector
• Corresponding draught
• Corrugated container
• Coselle
• Cost and freight
• Cost, insurance and freight
• Cost, insurance and freight free out or cost, insurance and freight ship's hold
• Cotton hooks or cotton dogs
• Council of European and Japanese National Shipowners’ Associations
• Count (as laytime) (to)
• Counter-offer or counter
• Counter-offer (to) or counter (to)
• Cradle container
• Cranage
• Crane
• Crawler crane or crawler mounted crane
• Croatian Register of Shipping
• Cross member or cross bearer
• Crosstrade (to)
• Crude oil washing
• CSC Approval
• CSC Plate
• Currency adjustment factor
• Currency and bunker adjustment factor
• Currency clause
• Curtain-sided truck
• Custom of the port
• Customary assistance
• Customary quick despatch
• Customs agent
• Customs clearance
• Customs invoice
• Customs manifest
• Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism
• D
• Daily running cost
• Damages for detention
• Dangerous goods
• Dangerous goods manifest
• Dangerous goods note or dangerous goods form
• Dangerous goods terminal
• Data freight receipt
• Data plate
• Dead ship
• Deadfreight
• Deadweight or deadweight all told
• Deadweight cargo
• Deadweight cargo capacity or deadweight carrying capacity
• Deadweight scale
• Deals, battens and boards
• Deballast (to)
• Deck
• Deck cargo
• Deck line
• Deck option
• Deck-house
• Declare general average (to)
• Dedicated
• Deep sea (trade)
• Deep tank
• Deferred rebate
• Delay for Charterers’ Purposes Clause
• Deliver (to) (cargo)
• Deliver (to) (a ship)
• Delivered
• Delivery (of cargo)
• Delivery (of a ship)
• Delivery certificate
• Delivery note
• Delivery order
• Demise charter
• Demise charter
• Demise charter (to)
• Demise charterer
• Demise charter-party
• Demise clause
• Demobilisation
• Demurrage
• Demurrage
• Demurrage half despatch
• Depth moulded
• Depth of water
• Deratting
• Deratting exemption certificate
• Deratting certificate
• Derrick
• Desiccant
• Despatch
• Despatch or despatch money
• Destuff (to)
• Det Norske Veritas
• Detention charge
• Deviation
• Deviation clause
• Dew point
• Diesel oil
• Dimensional
• Direct continuation
• Direct discharge
• Direct transhipment
• Dirty bill of lading
• Dirty (petroleum) products
• Disbursements
• Disbursements account
• Discharge (to)
• Discharge rate
• Discharging hatch
• Discussion agreement or rate agreement
• Dispatch
• Dispensation
• Displacement or displacement tonnage
• Displacement scale
• Disponent owner
• Dispute resolution clause
• Do not load order
• Dock
• Dock dues
• Dock leveller
• Dock receipt
• Docker
• Docker's hook
• Document of compliance
• Documentation fee or documentation charge or documentation surcharge
• Dogs
• Dolphin
• Donkey-engine
• Donkeyman
• Door
• Door gusset
• Door to door
• Double hull
• Double purchase
• Double skinned
• Double sling
• Double-bottom (tank)
• Double-rigged
• Down by the head
• Down to her marks
• Downtime
• Draft
• Draught
• Draught
• Draught limitation
• Draught survey
• Draw (to)
• Drawback
• Dray (to)
• Drayage
• Dredge (to)
• Dredger
• Drop back (to)
• Dropping outward pilot
• Drum handler
• Dry cargo
• Dry cargo container
• Dry dock
• Dry freight container
• Dry weight
• Dry-dock (to)
• Dual rate contract
• Duck keel
• Dumb
• Dunnage
• Dunnage bag
• Dunnage Removal Clause
• Dunnage (to)
• E
• Earn despatch (to)
• Earn freight (to)
• Economical speed
• Edge protector
• Edible oil carrier
• Efficient deck hand
• Electronic seal
• Elephant legs
• Elevator
• Emergency bunker adjustment factor.
• Emergency Bunker Surcharge.
• Emergency currency adjustment factor.
• Emergency fuel adjustment factor.
• Empties
• Empty container handler
• Empty equipment surcharge
• End frame
• End wall
• Endless sling
• Endorse a bill of lading (to)
• Endorsement slip
• Enter a ship (to)
• Enter a ship in(wards) (to)
• Enter a ship out(wards) (to)
• Entered ship
• Entered tonnage
• Entrepot
• Entry (in a tariff)
• Entry Summary Declaration
• Environmental Ship Index
• Equipment
• Equipment handover charge
• Equipment Interchange Receipt or Equipment Interchange Report
• Equipment positioning charge or equipment re-positioning charge
• E-seal
• EU Advance Cargo Declaration Clause for Time Charter Parties
• EU Advance Cargo Declaration Clause for Voyage Charter Parties
• EU Advance Cargo Declaration Regulations
• Euro container
• Europallet
• Even if used
• Even keel
• Evidence of Performance Clause
• Ex
• Ex
• Ex quay
• Ex ship
• Ex works
• Excepted period
• Exception
• Exceptions clause
• Excess landing
• Expiry of laytime
• Explosimeter
• Extend a cancelling date (to)
• Extend a charter (to)
• Extend suit time (to)
• Extension forks
• Extension of a charter
• Extension to the cancelling date
• Extension to suit time
• Extreme breadth
• F
• Fairlead
• Fairway
• Fairway dues
• Fall
• Fast as can
• Federal Maritime Commission
• Feeder
• Feeder service
• Feeder ship
• Feeder (to)
• Fender
• Ferry
• Ferry port
• Ferticon
• Fertiliser
• Fertiliser terminal
• Fertivoy
• Fighting rate
• Firm offer
• First class ship
• Fix (to)
• Fixed end flatrack
• Fixed on subjects
• Fixture
• Flag
• Flag administration
• Flag discrimination
• Flag of convenience
• Flag out (to)
• Flag state
• Flag waiver
• Flash point
• Flat or flatrack
• Flat bed trailer
• Flexible intermediate bulk carrier
• Flight of locks
• Floating crane
• Floating dock
• Floating Production, Storage and Offloading vessel or Floating, Production, Storage and Offloading unit
• Flotsam
• Flush deck ship
• Flush hatch or flush tween hatch cover
• Folding coil carrier
• Folding flat—flush deck
• Folding flatrack
• Folding hatch cover
• Force ice (to)
• Force majeure
• Forced ventilation
• Fore and aft stowage
• Fore peak tank
• Forecastle
• Foreign cargo remaining on board
• Foreign-Trade Zone
• Forest products carrier
• Forest products terminal
• Fork
• Fork-lift attachment
• Fork-lift pockets
• Fork-lift truck
• Forty-foot equivalent unit
• Forward
• Forward freight agreement
• Forward freight agreement broker
• Forward Freight Agreement Brokers Association
• Forwarding agent or forwarder
• Forwarding agent's commission
• Foul bill of lading
• Foul release coating
• Fourth party logistics
• Four-way pallet
• Frame
• Franco domicile
• Free alongside ship
• Free delivered
• Free despatch
• Free discharge
• Free flow system
• Free in
• Free in and out
• Free in and out and stowed
• Free in and out and trimmed
• Free in and out, lashed, secured and dunnaged
• Free in liner out or free in liner terms discharge
• Free on board
• Free on quay
• Free on rail or free on truck
• Free out
• Free port
• Free pratique
• Free time
• Freeboard
• Freight
• Freight
• Freight (to)
• Freight (to)
• Freight (to)
• Freight account
• Freight all kinds
• Freight canvasser
• Freight collect
• Freight conference
• Freight, demurrage and defence
• Freight derivative
• Freight forward
• Freight forwarder
• Freight payable at destination
• Freight prepaid
• Freight quotation
• Freight rate
• Freight remaining on board
• Freight tariff
• Freight ton
• Freighted manifest
• Freighter
• Fresh water
• Fresh water allowance
• Fresh water freeboard
• Fresh water load line
• Fresh water timber freeboard
• Fresh water timber load line
• Fridays and holidays excluded or Fridays and holidays excepted
• Front haul
• Frontlift truck
• Fruit and vegetable terminal
• Fruit carrier
• Fruit container
• Fruit juice terminal
• Fuel Oil No. 6
• Fuel oil surcharge or fuel adjustment factor
• Full and complete cargo
• Full and down
• Full container load
• Full liner terms
• Full truckload
• Fulls
• Fumigation charge
• G
• Gang
• Gantry crane
• Gas detection equipment
• Gas free (to)
• Gas-free
• Gas-free certificate
• Gas oil
• Gas terminal
• Gasvoy
• Gate operating system
• Geared ship
• Gearless ship
• Gencoa
• Gencon
• General arrangement plan
• General average
• General average act
• General average clause
• General average contribution
• General average sacrifice
• General cargo
• General purpose container
• General purpose rating
• General rate increase
• Generals
• Generator set
• Gentime
• Genwaybill
• Geographical rotation
• Germancon-North
• Germancon-North
• Germanischer Lloyd
• Gin
• Global Positioning System
• Go back (to)
• Gondola or gondola flat
• Gooseneck
• Grab
• Grab crane or grabbing crane
• Grab clause
• Grab damage
• Grab type ship unloader
• Grain
• Grain (2) or grain capacity
• Grain silo
• Graincon
• Grainconbill
• Granite
• Grapple
• Graving dock
• Greaser
• Great circle route
• Gross register tonnage or gross registered tonnage
• Gross terms
• Gross tonnage
• Gross weight
• Ground (to)
• Grounding
• Groupage
• Groupage bill of lading
• Guillotine door
• Gulf of Aden (emergency piracy) surcharge
• Gun tackle
• Gunny bag
• Gunny matting
• Guy
• H
• Hague Rules
• Hague-Visby Rules
• Half despatch
• Half height container
• Half hire
• Hamburg Index
• Hamburg Rules
• Hamburg Rules Charterparty Clause
• Hand hook
• Hand pallet truck
• Handymax
• Handysize
• Handysized bulker or handysized bulk carrier
• Handysized tanker
• Harbor Maintenance Tax
• Harbour
• Harbour dues
• Hardtop container
• Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System
• Hatch
• Hatch beam
• Hatch coaming
• Hatch cover
• Hatch cover ramp
• Hatch list
• Hatch opening
• Hatchless containership
• Hatchway
• Hazardous materials or hazardous goods
• Head (of a ship)
• Head (of a shipping container)
• Head charter or head charter-party
• Head charterer
• Header bar
• Heating coil
• Heave to (to)
• Heavy fuel oil (HFO)
• Heavy lift
• Heavy lift additional
• Heavy lift charge
• Heavy lift crane
• Heavy lift derrick
• Heavy lift ship
• Heavy lift surcharge
• Heavy weather
• Heavycon
• Heavyconbill
• Heavyconreceipt
• Heavyliftvoy
• Heel (to)
• High cube cellular palletwide container
• High cube (general purpose) container
• High cube reefer
• High sulphur fuel oil
• Hire or hire money
• Hire statement
• Hog (to)
• Hoistable car deck
• Hold
• Hold cleaning
• Hold Cleaning/Residue Disposal Clause For Time Charter Parties
• Home port
• Home trade ship or home trader
• Homogeneous cargo
• Hooded coil carrier
• Hook
• Hook/hook
• Hopper
• Hopper barge or hoppered barge
• Hopper cars
• Hoppered holds
• Hose test (to)
• House bill of lading
• House flag
• House to house
• Hovercraft
• Howe Robinson Container Index
• Hub (port)
• Hub and spoke
• Husbandry
• Hygroscopic cargo
• I
• ICC/CMI International Maritime Arbitration Rules
• Ice class ship
• Ice clause
• Ice surcharge
• Ice-bound
• Ice-bound
• Ice-breaker
• Ice-breaker assistance
• Ice-breaking bulk carrier
• Ice-strengthened ship
• ICHCA International Limited
• Identity of carrier clause
• Idle
• If used
• Imbalance of trade
• Immediate rebate
• IMO cargo
• IMO surcharge
• Import entry
• Importer Security Filing
• In gauge
• Incorporation (of a surcharge)
• Incoterms
• Indemnity
• Independent action
• Independent line
• Index-linked contract
• Indian Register of Shipping
• Indicative seal
• Inducement
• Inert gas system
• INF Code
• INF ship
• Inflatable dunnage
• Inflation adjustment factor
• Infrastructure (of a port)
• Inherent vice
• Inland container depot
• Inland point
• Inspection (of containers)
• Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers
• Institute of International Container Lessors
• Institute Warranty Limits
• Insufficient packing
• Insulated container
• Intaken weight
• Intankbill
• Integral reefer
• Intelligent clamp
• Inter terminal transfer
• Intercargo
• Inter-club Agreement
• Interconsec
• Intergovernmental Organisation for International Carriage by Rail
• Interim voyage
• Intermediate bulk carrier
• Intermediate bulk carrier liner
• Intermediate fuel oil
• Intermodal loading unit
• Intermodal tariff
• Intermodal transport
• Internal ramp
• International Association of Classification Societies
• International Association of Dry Cargo Shipowners
• International Chamber of Commerce
• International Chamber of Shipping
• International Code for the Safe Carriage of Packaged Irradiated Nuclear Fuel, Plutonium and High-Level Radioactive Wastes on Board Ships
• International Code for the Security of Ships and Port Facilities
• International Convention for Safe Containers
• International Convention for the Control and Management of Ships’ Ballast Water and Sediments
• International Convention on Load Lines
• International Load Line Certificate
• International Load Line Exemption Certificate
• International Maritime Arbitration Organization
• International Maritime Bureau
• International Maritime Dangerous Goods (IMDG) Code
• International Maritime Organization
• International Maritime Solid Bulk Cargoes Code
• International Organization for Standardization
• International Safety Management Code
• International Tanker Owners’ Pollution Federation
• International Tonnage Certificate
• International Transport Workers’ Federation
• Intertanko
• Intertankvoy
• Inward
• Iron and steel terminal
• ISM Clause
• ISM Code
• ISPS (Code) clause
• ISPS surcharge
• Itinerary
• J
• Japan Shipping Exchange
• Jerque note
• Jetsam
• Jettison
• Jettison (to)
• Jettison clause
• Jetty
• Jib
• Jib crane
• Joint service
• Joint survey
• JSE Reefer B/L
• JSE-CT B/L
• Jumbo derrick
• Jumboising
• Jurisdiction clause
• Just-in-time
• K
• Kaolin terminal
• Keel
• Keel clearance
• King beam
• Knot
• Korean Register of Shipping
• L
• Laden
• Laden draught
• Lading
• Lagan
• Laker
• Landbridge
• Landbridge (to)
• Landing charges
• Landing, storage and delivery
• Lane metre
• Large gas carrier
• Lash (to)
• Lashing bar
• Lashing point
• Lashing rod
• Lashings
• Latitude
• Lay up (to)
• Lay-by berth
• Laycan
• Laydays
• Laydays cancelling
• Laytime
• Laytime saved
• Laytime statement
• Lay-up
• Lay-up Clause
• Leg (of a voyage)
• Length between perpendiculars
• Length overall
• Less than container load
• Letter of indemnity
• Level luffing crane
• Lien
• Lien clause
• Lift
• Lift
• Lift (to) (bunkers)
• Lift (to) (cargo)
• Lift crane
• Lift subjects (to)
• Lift truck satellite
• Lift-away hatch cover
• Lifting point
• Lift-on lift-off
• Light displacement
• Light dues
• Lighten (to)
• Lighter
• Lighter aboard ship
• Lighterage
• Lighterage
• Limber board
• Limestone
• Limitation of liability
• Line
• Line handling charge
• Liner or liner ship
• Liner bill of lading
• Liner in free out
• Liner in liner out
• Liner service
• Liner terms
• Liner waybill
• Linertime
• Linewaybill
• Link span
• Liquid natural gas carrier or liquefied natural gas carrier
• Liquid petroleum gas carrier or liquefied petroleum gas carrier
• List (to)
• Litigation clause
• Livestock carrier
• Lloyd's Agents
• Lloyd's Open Form
• Lloyd's Register of Shipping
• Load
• Load (to)
• Load centre
• Load displacement
• Load line
• Load line mark
• Load line zone
• Load rate
• Load ready
• Loaded displacement or load displacement
• Loaded leg
• Loading and Discharging with Grabs Clause
• Loading broker
• Loading hatch
• Loading permit
• Loading rights
• Loadline or load-line
• Locating cone
• Lock
• Lock through (to)
• Log (book)
• Log abstract
• Log carrier
• Log grab
• Log grapple
• Log stacker
• London Maritime Arbitrators Association
• London Tanker Brokers’ Panel
• Long length additional
• Long ton
• Longitude
• Longitudinal bulkhead
• Longshoreman
• Loop (service)
• Loose
• Lost or not lost
• Low loader
• Low sulphur fuel oil
• Low sulphur (fuel) surcharge
• Low sulphur marine gas oil
• Lower hold
• Lower tween deck
• Loyalty contract
• LPG/ammonia carrier
• Luffing
• Lumber load line
• Lump sum charter
• M
• MacGregor hatch
• Mafi flat or Mafi trailer or Mafi
• Magnet
• Maiden voyage
• Main deck
• Main line operator
• Main port
• Maintain class (to)
• Make good as general average (to)
• Malaccamax (ship)
• Malt terminal
• Manifest
• Manifest corrector
• Marine diesel oil
• Marine gas oil
• Maritime declaration of health
• Maritime lien
• Maritime (services) cluster
• Marks and numbers
• MARPOL
• Master
• Master bill of lading
• Mate's receipt
• Mauritanore
• Maximum securing load
• Mean draught
• Measure or measurement
• Measurement (of a ship)
• Measurement cargo
• Measurement rated cargo
• Measurement rules
• Mechanical ventilation
• Member line
• Memorandum of agreement
• Merchant
• Merchant haulage
• Merchant marine
• Metacentre
• Metacentric height
• Methane carrier
• Metric ton
• Minibridge
• Mini-bulker
• Mini-landbridge
• Minimum quantity commitment
• Minimum/maximum
• Misdeclaration
• Misdeclare (to)
• Misdeliver (to)
• Misdelivery
• Misdescribe (to)
• Misdescription
• Miss the cancelling date (to)
• Mixed cargo
• Mixed commodity box rate
• Mixing of cargo
• Mobile crane
• Mobile harbour crane spreader
• Mobile offshore drilling unit
• Mobile unloader
• Mobilisation
• Mole
• Moor (to)
• Mooring post
• More in dispute if on board to be delivered
• More or less in charterer's option
• More or less in owner's option
• Mother ship
• Moulded breadth
• Moulded depth
• Multideck ship
• Multidoc 95
• Multi-purpose cargo ship
• Multi-purpose crane
• Multi-purpose supply vessel
• Multi-purpose terminal
• Multi-string service
• Multiwaybill 95
• Murmapatit
• Murmapatitbill
• N
• Nanyozai
• Narrow the laycan (to)
• Narrow steel strip
• Nautical mile
• Neap tide
• Neaped
• Negligence clause
• Negotiated Rate Agreement
• Neo bulk
• Net
• Net register tonnage or net registered tonnage
• Net terms
• Net ton
• Net tonnage
• Net weight
• New Jason clause
• New York Produce Exchange charter-party
• Newbuilding
• Newsprint
• Newsprint carrier
• Nippon Kaiji Kyokai
• Nipponcoal
• Nippongrain
• Nipponore
• No cure no pay
• Nomenclature
• Nominate a ship (to)
• Nomination
• Non-conference line
• Non-contractor
• Non-delivery
• Non-hygroscopic cargo
• Non-intrusive inspection equipment
• Non-ISO containers
• Non-negotiable bill of lading
• Non-payment of Hire Clause for Time Charter Parties
• Non-reversible laytime
• Non-shipment
• Non-vessel owning common carrier or non-vessel operating common carrier
• Norgrain
• Norgrainbill
• No-show charge
• Not always afloat but safe aground
• Not otherwise enumerated
• Note protest (to)
• Notice of arrival
• Notice of readiness
• Notice of redelivery
• Notify party
• Nubaltwood
• Nubaltwoodbill
• Nuvoy
• Nuvoybill
• Nylon sling
• O
• Ocean freight
• Ocean transport intermediary
• Ocean waybill
• Off hire
• Off hire
• Off hire survey
• Offer firm (to)
• Official number
• Oil barge
• Oil port
• Oil record book
• Oil tanker
• Oil terminal
• Oil/bulk/ore carrier
• On hire survey
• On-carriage
• On-carrier
• On-carry (to)
• One safe berth
• One safe port
• One-way pallet
• On-forwarding
• Open
• Open conference
• Open hatch bulk carrier
• Open rate
• Open rated cargo
• Open registry
• Open roadstead
• Open shelter-deck ship or open shelter-decker
• Open side container or open sided container
• Open top container
• Open top containership
• Open/closed shelter-deck ship or open/closed shelter-decker
• Opening of navigation
• Operate a ship (to)
• Operation Safe Commerce
• Optional cargo
• Orange juice
• Order bill of lading
• Orders
• Ore carrier
• Ore pellet carrier
• Ore/bulk/oil carrier
• Ore/oil carrier
• Orevoy
• Orevoybill
• Original bill of lading
• Out of gauge
• Outport
• Outreach
• Outsider
• Outturn (to)
• Outturn report
• Outturn weight
• Outward
• Over, short and damage report
• Over sized
• Overage
• Over-age or over-aged
• Overall length
• Overcarriage
• Over-clamp (to)
• Over-consumption
• Over-dimensional
• Overheight cargo
• Overlanded cargo or overlanding
• Overlength cargo
• Overload (to)
• Overside discharge
• Over-sized
• Overstow (to)
• Overtime
• Overtonnaging
• Overwidth cargo
• Owner
• Owner's agents
• Owner's broker
• P
• Package limitation
• Packaged timber
• Packing list
• Pallet
• Pallet cage
• Pallet carrier
• Pallet elevator
• Pallet loading platform
• Pallet rules
• Pallet ship
• Pallet truck
• Palletised
• Palletwide container
• Panama Canal restrictions
• Panama Canal surcharge
• Panama Canal tolls
• Panamax (ship)
• Panstone
• Paper clamp
• Paper reel
• Paper/container carrier
• Paramount clause
• Parcel
• Parcel
• Parcel tanker
• Paris MOU
• Part cargo
• Part charter
• Particular average
• Passenger/train/vehicle carrier
• Passenger/vehicle ferry
• Payload
• PC/UMS Net Tonnage Certificate
• Peak season surcharge
• Peak tank
• Pedestal crane or pedestal mounted crane
• Pendulum route
• Pendulum service
• Per diem
• Performance claim
• Performance clause
• Perishable goods
• Permanent dunnage
• Pharma
• Phosphate
• Phosphoric acid carrier
• P&I bunker deviation clause
• Piece weight
• Pier
• Pier to house
• Pier to pier
• Piggy-back
• Piggy-back hatch cover
• Pilferage
• Pilot
• Pilotage
• Pilotage Exemption Certificate
• Pipe hook
• Piracy clause
• Piracy risk surcharge
• Pitch (to)
• Place a ship off hire (to)
• Plastics terminal
• Plate clamp
• Plate hooks
• Platform
• Platform flat
• Platform supply vessel
• Plimsoll line
• Plug
• Plus usual additionals at time of shipment
• Pneumatic crane
• Point to port rate
• Polcoalbill
• Polcoalvoy
• Polski Rejestr Statkow
• Pontoon
• Pontoon crane
• Pontoon hatch cover
• Pontoon hatch cover crane
• Pool agreement
• Pooling
• Port
• Port or port side
• Port agent
• Port captain
• Port charter-party
• Port dues
• Port liner term charges
• Port log
• Port mark
• Port of refuge
• Port of registry
• Port security surcharge
• Port Service Security ID Card
• Port State Control
• Port State Control Officer
• Port to point rate
• Portable unloader
• Portainer
• Portal
• Portal crane
• Porthole container or porthole type container
• Position containers (to)
• Possessory lien
• Post fixture
• Post-entry
• Posted price
• Post-Panamax (ship)
• Post-Panamax crane
• Potash
• Power pack
• Pratique
• Preamble
• Pre-arrival notification
• Pre-entry
• Pre-loading (condition) survey or pre-load survey
• Pre-MARPOL tankers
• Pre-shipment charges
• Pre-shipment inspection
• Pre-sling (to)
• Pre-stow (to)
• Preventer
• Private form
• Pro forma charter-party
• Pro forma disbursements account
• Produce carrier
• Product carrier or products carrier
• Promotional rate
• Propane carrier
• Prospects
• Protecting agent
• Protecting clauses
• Protection and indemnity club or protection and indemnity association
• Protective agent
• Protective clauses
• Protest
• Pulp clamps
• Pump truck
• Pumpman
• Purchase
• Pure car carrier
• Pure transhipment
• Pure transhipment port
• Purposes
• Pushed barge
• Pusher or pusher tug
• Pusher barge
• Putting back clause
• Q
• Q-max
• Quarter ramp
• Quarter-deck
• Quartz sand terminal
• Quay
• Quay receipt
• Quick release gear
• Quoin
• Quote (to)
• R
• Racking
• Radiation detection equipment
• Radiation portal
• Radiation portal monitor
• Radio frequency identification
• Radius (of a crane)
• Rail clamp
• Rail-mounted gantry crane
• Raised quarter-deck ship
• Ramp
• Ramp/hatch cover
• Ramping system
• Range of ports
• Rate
• Rate agreement
• Rate of demurrage
• Rate of discharge or rate of discharging
• Rate of freight
• Rate of loading
• Rate restoration
• Reach (of a crane)
• Reach stacker
• Reachable on arrival
• Received for shipment bill of lading
• Receiver
• Receiving dates
• Recharter (to)
• Recovery agent
• Redeliver (to)
• Redelivery
• Redelivery certificate
• Redress Clause
• Redwood Scale
• Reefer container, reefer box, reefer
• Reefer (fuel) consumption surcharge
• Reefer plug
• Reefer ship
• Reel guard
• Re-export (to)
• Refrigerated cargo pallet carrier
• Refrigerated container
• Refrigerated ship
• Refrigerated trailer vessel
• Register (to)
• Register (to)
• Register tonnage or registered tonnage
• Registration
• Registration
• Registro Italiano Navale
• Release a bill of lading (to)
• Release call
• Release cargo (to)
• Remaining on board
• Remeasure a ship (to)
• Removable deck
• Reporting point
• Reposition containers (to)
• Requisition Clause
• Reserve buoyancy
• Respondentia
• Return cargo
• Return load
• Return of Containers Clause
• Revenue ton
• Reversible laytime
• Rigger
• Rigging
• Rigging screw
• Rise of floor
• Roads or roadstead
• RoFlex vessel
• Roll (to)
• Roll trailer
• Rolling cargo
• Rolling hatch cover
• Roll-on roll-off
• Roll-on roll-off barge
• Ro-pax vessel
• Rope sling
• Ro-ro tractor
• Ro-ro/container vessel
• Ro-ro/vehicle/passenger ferry or ro-ro/passenger ferry
• Rotation
• Rotterdam Rules
• Round the world service
• Round voyage
• Rubber-tyred gantry crane
• Run aground (to)
• Runner
• Running days
• Russian Maritime Register of Shipping
• S
• Safe aground
• Safe berth
• Safe port
• Safe working load
• Safety cage
• Safety Management Certificate
• Safety margin
• Safety radio-telegraphy certificate
• Sag (to)
• Said to contain
• Sail (to)
• Sail (to)
• Sail-assisted bulk carrier
• Sailing schedule or sailing card
• Sale and purchase broker
• Saleform
• Salt
• Salt water arrival draught
• Salvage or salvage charges
• Salvage
• Salvage agreement
• Salvage (service)
• Salve (to)
• Salvor
• Samson-post
• Sanctions Clause for Time Charter Parties
• Sand and gravel terminal
• Sand bar
• Sand dredger or sand carrier
• Saturdays, Sundays and holidays excluded or Saturdays, Sundays and holidays excepted
• Saturdays, Sundays and holidays included
• Scancon
• Scanconbill
• Scantlings
• Scow
• Scrap terminal
• SD14
• Sea waybill
• Sea freight
• Seal
• Seasonal tropical zone
• Seasonal winter zone
• Seaway and Great Lakes Trading Clause
• Seaway tolls
• Seawaymax
• Seaworthiness
• Seaworthy
• Seconds
• Secure (to)
• Securing point
• Security Manifest Documentation Charge
• Security surcharge
• Segregated ballast tank
• Self-loading trailer
• Self-loading vessel
• Self-propelled barge
• Self-propelled trailer
• Self-sustaining ship
• Self-trimming ship or self-trimmer
• Self-unloader
• Semi-slewing ramp
• Semi-trailer
• Separation
• Service agreement or service contract
• Service loop
• Service string
• Shackle
• Shanghai (Export) Containerized Freight Index
• Shears or shear-legs
• Sheave
• Sheep carrier
• Shelter-deck
• Shelter-deck ship or shelter-decker
• Shift
• Shift (to)
• Shift (to)
• Shifting and warping clause
• Shifting boards
• Shifting charges
• Ship
• Ship
• Ship (to)
• Ship breaker
• Ship broker
• Ship canal
• Ship chandler
• Ship management
• Ship routing
• Shipbroker
• Shipbroking
• Shiploader
• Shipman 98
• Shipmaster
• Shipment
• Shipment
• Shipped bill of lading or shipped on board bill of lading
• Shipper
• Shippers’ council
• Shipper's own container
• Shipping
• Shipping
• Shipping
• Shipping conference
• Shipping instructions
• Shipping line
• Shipping mark
• Shipping note
• Shipping permit
• Shipping pool
• Ship's agency
• Ship's agent
• Ship's articles
• Ship's dues
• Ship's gear
• Ship's husband
• Ship's log
• Ship's rail
• Ship's sweat
• Ship's tackle
• Ship-to-shore crane
• Shipyard
• Shore
• Shore gear
• Short form bill of lading
• Short sea
• Short sea trader
• Short ship (to)
• Short shipment
• Short ton
• Shortage
• Shortlanded cargo
• Shrink-wrapping
• Shut out (to)
• Shuttle tanker
• Side door
• Side door container
• Side guard
• Side rail
• Side ramp
• Side tank
• Sidelift truck
• Sideloader
• Side-loading trailer
• Silo
• Similar substitute
• Simplification (of a tariff)
• Single buoy mooring
• Single deck ship or single decker
• Single hatch ship
• Single sling
• Sister beam
• Sister ship
• Skeletal trailer
• Skid
• Skip
• Slack
• Slack water
• Slave trailer
• Slewing crane
• Slewing ramp
• Sliding hatch cover
• Sling
• Sling
• Sling (to)
• Slop tank
• Slops
• Slot
• Slot agreement
• Slot charter
• Slot charter (to)
• Slothire
• Slow steam (to)
• Slow steaming clause
• Smart seal
• Snatch block
• Snotter
• Socket
• Socket
• SOLAS Convention
• Sole arbitrator
• Sous palan
• Sovcoal
• Sovcoalbill
• Sovconround
• Sovconroundbill
• Sovorecon
• Sovoreconbill
• Space charterer
• Space filler
• Spar ceiling
• Special commodity quotation
• Special equipment
• Special survey
• Specific gravity
• Spillage
• Spiral elevator
• Spiral shiploader
• Spot
• Spot (to)
• Spout
• Spout trimmed
• Spreader
• Spring tide
• Square of the hatch
• Squat (to)
• Squeeze clamps
• Stackable flat
• Stacker crane
• Stacking cone
• Stacking hatch cover
• Stanchion
• Staple
• Starboard or starboard side
• Statement of facts
• Stay
• Steam guy
• Steel coil
• Steel pipe
• Steel rails
• Steel sheet piling
• Steel strip
• Steel universal beams and columns
• Stem
• Stem
• Stem a berth (to)
• Stem bunkers (to)
• Stern
• Stern door
• Stern ramp
• Stevedore
• Stevedore Damage Clause
• Stevedore's hook
• Stevedoring charges
• Stiff
• Stiffeners
• Stoppage in transitu
• Stopper
• Sto-ro
• Stow
• Stow (to)
• Stow deadweight (to)
• Stowage
• Stowage factor
• Stowage plan
• Stowing ramp
• Straddle carrier
• Straddle crane
• Straight bill of lading
• Strand (to)
• Stranding
• Strap
• Strap seal
• Strapping
• Strengthened hold
• Strike clause
• Strike-bound
• Strike-bound
• String
• String of barges
• Stringer or stringer plate
• Strip a container (to)
• Strip seal
• Stripping pump
• Stuff (to)
• Sub-charter
• Sub-charter (to)
• Sub-charterer
• Sub-freight
• Subject (used as a noun)
• Subject details or sub details
• Subject free or sub free
• Subject open or sub open
• Subject stem or sub stem
• Subject to enquiry
• Subject unfixed or sub unfixed
• Sub-let
• Sub-let (to)
• Subrogation
• Substitute
• Substitute (to)
• Substitution
• Suction elevator
• Suezmax
• Suit time
• Sulphur emission control area
• Sulphuric acid carrier
• Summer deadweight
• Summer draught
• Summer freeboard
• Summer load line
• Summer marks
• Summer tank
• Summer timber freeboard
• Summer timber load line
• Summer zone
• Sundays and holidays excluded or Sundays and holidays excepted
• Sundays and holidays included
• Super post-Panamax containership
• Super post-Panamax crane
• Super slow steaming
• Super rack
• Supercargo
• Superpack
• Supervisory agent
• Supplementary call
• Supply chain
• Supply-ship
• Supplytime
• Support ship
• Surcharge
• Swapbody
• Sweat
• Sweep the holds (to)
• Swinging buoy
• Swinging derrick
• Switch bills of lading
• Swop body or swopbody
• Sworn shipbroker
• Synacomex
• T
• Tackle
• Taint
• Taking inward pilot
• Tally
• Tally (to)
• Tally clerk
• Tally sheet or tally book
• Tandem
• Tank barge
• Tank car
• Tank cleaning
• Tank container
• Tank terminal or tank farm
• Tank top or tank-top
• Tanker
• Tanker broker
• Tanker charter
• Tare or tare weight
• Tariff
• Tariff currency
• Tariff rate item
• Tarpaulin
• Telegraphic transfer
• Telehandler
• Telescopic spreader
• Temperature recorder
• Tender
• Tender notice of readiness (to)
• Tensioner
• Terminal chassis
• Terminal handling charge
• Terminal operating system
• Terminal tractor
• Third party logistics
• Threefold purchase
• Through bill of lading
• Through rate
• Thrower
• Tidal range
• Tide tables
• Tier limit or tier limitation
• Timber carrier
• Timber deck cargo
• Timber dogs
• Timber freeboard
• Timber load line
• Timber, packaged
• Time
• Time bar
• Time charter
• Time charter
• Time charter equivalent
• Time charter (to)
• Time charterer
• Time charter-party
• Time sheet
• Time volume contract
• Time volume rate
• Time-bar
• Time-barred
• Time-charter
• Time-charterer
• Tine (of a coil hook)
• Tipping hatch
• Tobacco terminal
• Tomming or tomming down
• Ton
• Tongs
• Tonnage
• Tonnage
• Tonnage
• Tonnage
• Tonnage mark
• Tonnage opening
• Tonnage tax
• Tonne
• Tonner
• Tonnes per centimetre
• Tonnes per day
• Tons per inch
• Top off (to)
• Top pick
• Top side rail
• Top stow cargo
• Toplift or toplift attachment
• Topside tank
• Total deadweight
• Towcon
• Towed barge
• Towhire
• Tracer
• Tractor
• Tractor
• Trading limits
• Trailer
• Trailer deck
• Train ferry
• Train of barges
• Tramp or tramp ship
• Transfer charge
• Tranship (to)
• Transhipment
• Transit cargo
• Transit time
• Translifter
• Transload (to)
• Transloader
• Transport International Routier (TIR) Convention
• Transportation Worker Identification Credential
• Transporter crane
• Transship (to) or trans-ship (to)
• Transshipment or trans-shipment
• Transtainer
• Transverse bulkhead
• Travelling gantry crane
• Tray
• Treble purchase
• Trim
• Trim cargo (to)
• Trim a ship (to)
• Trimmed by the head
• Trimmed by the stern
• Trimming and Grab Clauses for Bulk Cargo Trimming
• Trimodal
• Trip charter
• Tropical draught
• Tropical freeboard
• Tropical fresh water load line
• Tropical fresh water timber load line
• Tropical load line
• Tropical timber freeboard
• Tropical timber load line
• Tropical zone
• Truck sling
• Tug
• Tugmaster
• Turn (a ship) round (to)
• Turn round time or turnround time or turnaround time
• Turn time
• Turnbuckle
• Tween deck
• Tween deck ship or tween decker
• Twenty-foot equivalent unit
• Twin hatch vessel
• Twist lock
• Two-way pallet
• U
• Ullage
• Ullaging
• Ultra large container ship
• Ultra large crude carrier
• Ultra slow steaming
• Umpire
• Unclean bill of lading
• Uncontainerable cargo or uncontainerisable cargo
• Under deck shipment
• Under-consumption
• Underkeel clearance
• Undock (to)
• Unimodal
• Unimog
• Union purchase
• Unit load
• United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
• Unitisation
• Unitise (to)
• Universal bulk carrier
• Unless used
• Unload (to)
• Unloader
• Unmoor (to)
• Unprotected
• Unseaworthiness
• Unseaworthy
• Unstuff (to)
• Upper tween deck
• Urea
• US Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) Clause
• US Security Clause for Time Chartering
• US Security Clause for Voyage Chartering
• Utilisation
• Utilisation allowance
• V
• Valemax
• Valorem
• Valuation form
• Valuation scale
• Vehicle carrier
• Vehicle/train ferry
• Ventilate (to)
• Ventilated container
• Ventilation
• Ventilator
• Very large containership
• Very large crude carrier
• Very large gas carrier
• Very large ore carrier
• Vessel
• Vessel
• Vessel operating common carrier or vessel owning common carrier
• Vessel sharing agreement
• Virtual arrival
• Visor
• Void filler
• Volcoa
• Voucher
• Voyage account
• Voyage charter
• Voyage charter
• Voyage charter (to)
• Voyage charterer
• Voyage charter-party
• Voyage estimate
• W
• Wagon demurrage
• Waiting for Berth Clause
• War clause
• War risk surcharge
• Warp (to)
• Water ballast
• Water clerk
• Water density
• Waybill
• Wayport
• Weather deck
• Weather permitting
• Weather routing
• Weather Routeing Clause for Time Charter Parties
• Weather working day
• Weather-bound
• Weighbridge
• Weight cargo
• Weight or measure or weight or measurement
• Weight rated cargo
• Weight/measurement ratio
• Well
• Well
• Wet weight
• Wharf
• Wharfage or wharfage charges
• Wharfinger
• When where ready
• Whether in berth or not
• Whether in free pratique or not
• Whether in port or not
• White products
• Wide laycan
• Winch
• Winch clause
• Windage
• Wine
• Wine tanker
• Wing
• Wing tank
• Winter draught
• Winter freeboard
• Winter load line
• Winter marks
• Winter North Atlantic freeboard
• Winter North Atlantic load line
• Winter North Atlantic timber freeboard
• Winter North Atlantic timber load line
• Winter timber freeboard
• Winter timber load line
• Winter zone
• Wire rod in coil
• Wire sling
• Withdraw a ship from the service of charterer (to)
• Without guarantee
• Woodchips
• Woodchip carrier
• Woodpulp carrier
• Work a ship (to)
• Work to finish (to)
• Workable hatch
• Working day
• Working day of 24 consecutive hours
• Working day of 24 hours
• Working hatch
• Working time saved
• World Container Index
• World Shipping Council
• Worldfood 99
• Worldfoodreceipt 99
• Worldfoodwaybill
• Worldscale
• Y
• Yacht carrier
• Yard
• Yaw (to)
• Yen appreciation surcharge
• York–Antwerp Rules