Dictionary of Shipping Terms
Dictionary of Shipping Terms
Editor/Author
Brodie, Peter
Publication Year: 2018
Publisher: Routledge
Price: Core Collection Only

ISBN: 978-1-138-57449-6
Category: Science - Marine sciences
Image Count:
2
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
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.
This book is found in the following Credo Collections:
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