Tools [Glossary]

A & CP:Anchors and chains proved

AP OR A/P:After peak Tank

a/f:Also for (referring to ports to be touched by the ship)

A/S:Alongside

Aa (AA):Always afloat

AAAA:Always afloat & always accessible

AB:Above bridges

Abt:About

ACP:African, Caribbean, Pacific countries

Ad val:Ad Valorem (duty)

ADCOM/Addcomm:Address commission

ADV:Advise

AF:Advance freight

AFRA:Average freight rate assessments

AFSPS:Arrival First Sea Piolt Station

AFT:At or towards the stern or rear of a ship

AG:Arabian Gulf (also referred to as PG Persian Gulf)

AGRIPODS:Agricultural products

AGW:All going well

AGWWP:All going well weather permitting

AH:Range of ports between and including Antwerp and Hamburg

Ah (AH):After hatch

AhL:Australian hold ladders

AICS:Associate of Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers, London

AIMS:American Institute of Merchant Shipping

ANTHAM:Antwerp-Hamburg Range

AOG:Act of God

Ap or A/P:Aft perpendicular (of ship); after peak; all purposes; additional premium

API:American Petroleum Institute

APS:Arrival Pilot Station

AFPS:Arrival First Pilot Station

APT:After peak tank

AR:Antwerp - Rotterdam range

ARA:Antwerp - Rotterdam - Amsterdam range

ARAG:Amsterdam - Rotterdam - Antwerp - Ghent Range

ARH:Antwerp - Rotterdam - Hamburg range

ARHB:Antwerp - Rotterdam - Hamburg - Bremen range

ASA:Always safe(ly) afloat

ASAP (asap):As soon as possible

ASBA:Association of Shipbrokers and Agents

ATA:Actual Time of arrival

ATDN:Any time day and night

ATDNSHINC:Any Time Day/Night Sundays and Holidays Included

ATN:Aids to Navigation

ATRS:American Tank Rate Schedule

ATS:Actual time saved or All time saved

ATSB/ATSBE:All time saved both ends

ATSDO:All time saved loading only

ATUTC:Actual Times Used to Count

AWH:Available workable hatches

AWTSBE:All working time saved both ends

AWTSDO:All working time saved discharging only

AWTSLO:All working time saved loading only

AWTWL:All within Institute Warranty Limits

B.H.(range):Range of ports between and including Bordeaux & Hamburg

B.P.(bp/b.p.):Between perpendiculars; boiling point (gases).

B.S.:Boiler survey; bunker surcharge.

B.S. & W.:Bottom (or base) sediment and water.

b/d:Barrels per day.

B/E:Break even; (customs) bill of entry; bill of exchange.

BE, Bends:Both ends.

b/h:Barrels per hour.

BL, B/L (Bs/L):Bale capacity; Bill of Lading (plural of B/L).

B/N (b/n):Booking note.

B/O (b/o):Bulk/oil carrier.

B/R:Bordeaux of Rouen.

BA:Buenos Aires.

Bareboat Charter:Contract or hire of a ship under which the shipowner is usually paid a fixed amount of charterhire for a certain period of time during which the charterer is responsible for the operating costs and voyage costs of the ship as well as arranging for crewing (see Time Charter and Voyage Charter)

BACAT:Barge aboard catamaran

BAF:Bunker Adjustment Factor

Bar (brl):Barrel.

BB:Ballast bonus; bar bound; below bridges; bulbous bow; bareboat

BBB:Before Breaking Bulk

BBCD:Bareboat-cum-demise.

BC:British Columbia; British Channel.

BD:Bar draft, below deck.

BDI:Both dates (days) inclusive (or included).

BEAM:The maximum breadth of a ship

BENDS:Both Ends (Load & Discharge Ports)

BENELUX:Belguim, the Netherlands and Luxembourg

Bext.:Breadth extreme.

BFI:Baltic Freight Index

BFO:Bunker fuel oil.

BH (B/H):Bill of health; bulkhead.

BHF:Bulk harmless fertilizers.

Bhp (BHP):Brake horse power (oil engines).

Bi/Bl:Both inclusive.

BIBO:Bulk in, bag out.

BIFFEX:The Baltic International Freight Futures Exchange

BIMCO:Baltic & International Maritime Council

BK:Bar keel.

BL:Bale

BLK:Bulk (unpackaged solid cargo such as coal, ore and grain)

BSEA:Black Sea.

BLST (BST):Ballast. (Ballast: A substance, usually water, used to improve the stability and control the draft of a ship) (A vessel is said to be “in ballast” when it is steaming without cargo and carrying water as Ballast which is discharged before loading at the next loading port)

BM:Beam

BOA:Berthing on arrival.

BOB:Bunker on Board

BOD:Bunker on Delivery; Board of Directors.

BOFFER(S):Best Offer(s)

BOR:Bunkers on re-delivery.

BORO:Bulk, Oil and roll-on, roll-off vessel.

BROB:Bunkers Remaining on Board

BS:Broken Stowage

BSS:Basis

BSS 1/1:Basis 1 Port to 1 Port

BST:British Summer Time, British Standard Time.

BT (bt):Berth terms.

BTD:Butadiene (cargo for gas carrier).

BTU:British Thermal Unit.

BW/BWA:Brackish water/ brackish water allowance.

C:Shine, Sundays and holidays included.

C & F (CFR):Cost and freight.

C and/or J:China and/or Japan.

C of B:Centre of Buoyancy

C&F:Cost and Freight

C&F FO:Cost & Freight Free Out

c.f.g:cubic feet of gas

c.f.g.d./hr./min:cubic feet of gas per day / hour / minute

c.f.hr./sec.:cubic feet per hour/second

C.I.F.:Cost, insurance and freight.

C.I.F. & E.:Cost, insurance, freight and exchange.

C.I.F.F.I.:Cost, insurance, freight, commission and interest.

C.I.F.F.O.:Cost, insurance, freight, and free out.

C.I.F.I. & E.:Cost, insurance, freight, interest and exchange.

C.I.F.L.T. (CIFLT):Cost, insurance and freight, London terms.

c.m.p.s:centimetres per second

C.O:Country of origin; cargo oil; case oil

c.o.d.:Cash on delivery.

C/N:Credit Note

C/P (c/p orCP):Charter party.

C/V/E:Cable, victuals and entertainment.

CABAF:Currency and bunkering adjustment factors.

CABE (cabe):Charterer’s agents both ends.

CAF:Currency adjustment factor.

CAN:Calcium ammonium nitrate (cargo).

CAR (CARIB):Carribean Islands.

CB & H Cont. (BH):Continent between Bordeaux and Hamburg.

CBFT (or CFT):Cubic Feet

CBM:Cubic Meter

CBT:Clean ballast tanks

cc.hr./min:Cubic centimeter per hour/minute

CD:Customary Despatch

CENSA(pron.Kensa):Council of European and Japanese National Shipowners Associations.

CFR (or C&F):Cost and Freight

CH & H:Continent between Le Havre and Hamburg

CHA:Customs house agent.

CHINPAC:China Sea, Indian and Pacific Oceans.

CHN:China.

CHOPT:Charterers Option

Charter:The hire of a ship for a specified period of time or to carry a cargo for a fixed fee from a loading port to a discharging port. The contract for a charter is called a charterparty

Charter-Hire:A sum of money paid to the shipowner by a charterer under a time charterparty for the use of a vessel

CHRTS:Charterer(s) (the individual or company hiring a ship)

CIF:Cost, Insurance & Freight.

CIM:International Convention Concerning the Carriage of Goods by Rail.

CIP:Carriage and insurance paid to.

CKD:Completely knocked down

CLC:Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution Damage, 1969.a

CMI:Comite Maritime International.

CMR:Convention on the Contract for Intrntnl Carriage of Goods by Road.

cnr:Charter not reported.

COA:Contract of Affreightment (An agreement between shipowner and shipper concerning the freight of a defined amount of cargo. The shipowner chooses the ship)

COACP:Contract of Affreightment Charter Party

COB:Cargo on board; close of business.

COFR:Certificate of Financial Responsibility.

COGS (COGSA):Carriage of Goods by Sea (Act).

COMP:Completing.

CONFI:Confidential.

CONS:Consecutive; consumption.

Cont. (Cont.):Continent or Europe.

COP: Custom Of Port

COW:Crude Oil Washing

CP (or C/P):Charter Party

CPD:Charterers Pay Dues

CPP:Clean petroleum products.

CPT:Carriage paid to.

CQD:Customary Quick Despatch

CR (cr):Current rate; carrier’s risk.

CRD:Current rate discharge.

CRISTAL:Contract Regarding an Interim Settlement to Tanker Liability for Oil Pollution Damage.

CRL:Current rate of load.

CRN:Crane

CROB:Cargo Remaining on Board

CS:Laden Cape, ballast Suez.

CSC:International Convention for Safe Containers

CSD:Closed shelter deck

CST (c/s):Centistokes.

CT:Centre tank; cargo tank; cubic tonnage of a ship.

CTO:Combined transport operator

CTR:Container Fitted

CVO:Certificate of value and origin

CVs (consec):Consecutive voyages.

Cwt.:Hundred weight.

D1/2D (DHD):Despatch money payable at half demurrage rate

D.O:Delivery Order

d.p.:Direct port.

D.T:Deep Tank

D/A (DA):Discharge afloat, Disbursement Account

D/C:Deviation clause; (in) direct continuation.

D/P:Documents against payment

D/R/D:Dunnage, removal and disposal.

daa:Discharge always afloat.

DAF:Delivered at frontier.

DAMFORDET:Damages for Detention.

DAP (DAPS):Days all purpose; di-ammonium phosphate (fertilizer).

DB (db):Double bottom.

DBB (d. b. b):Deals, battens and boards (timber).

DBE:Despatch payable both ends

DBEATS:Despatch (payable) both ends, all time saved

DBEWTS:Despatch (payable) both ends, working time saved.

DBT:Double Bottom Tanks

DD:Daily discharge; dry docking.

DDO (ddo):Despatch discharging only.

DDP:Delivered duty paid.

DDU:Delivered duty unpaid.

DEC:De-ratting exemption certificate.

DEL (DELY):Delivery.

DEM:Demurrage (Quay Rent).

DEM-DES(P):Demurrage and dispatch.

DEQ:Delivered ex-quay

Der (DR):Derricks.

DES:Delivered ex-ship

DET:Detention

DETS:Details.

DF:Dead Freight

DFD:Demurrage, free dispatch.

Dft:Draft (also spelt, draught).

dh:Double hull.

DHD:Despatch half demurrage

DHDATSBE:Dispatch Half Demurrage on All Time Saved Both Ends

DHDWTSBE:Dispatch Half Demurrage on Working TIme Saved Both Ends

DIRTY:Crude black oil.

DISCH:Discharge

DK:Deck

DLOSP:Dropping last outward sea pilot.

DLY:Daily.

DNRCAOSLONL:Discountless and Non-Returnable Cargo and/or Ship Lost or Not Lost

DO (d.o.):Diesel oil.

DOHP:Dropping outward harbour pilot.

DOLSP:Dropping Off Last Sea Pilot

DOP (dop):Dropping outward pilot.

DOSP:Dropping outward sea pilot.

DOT:Department of Transportation

DPD:Discharge port disbursements.

DPP (d.p.p.):Dirty petroleum products.

DRATE:Discharge rate.

DRC (d.r.c):Daily running cost.

DRI:Direct reduced iron (cargo).

DRK:Derrick

DWA:Dock water allowance.

DWAT (dwat):Deadweight all told.

DWCC(dwcc):Deadweight cargo capacity.

Dwct:Deadweight cargo tons.

DWOC:Decline without counter.

DWT:Deadweight (tonnage) (the maximum weight of cargo and supplies that can be carried by a ship, expressed in long tons (2,240 lbs)

E:East.

e.o.h.p.:Except otherwise herein provided.

E.O.P.:End (completion) of passage.

EAT:Expected (or estimated) arrival time.

Eb:Empty ballast

EC:East Coast; European Communities

ECCP:East Coast (UK) coal port

ECGB:East Coast of Great Britain.

ECI:East coast of India

ECM:East coast of Mexico

ECNA:East Coast of North America.

ECSA:East Coast of South America.

ECUK:East Coast of United Kingdom.

ECUS:East Coast of U.S.A

EDI:Electronic data interchange.

EGM:Export general manifest.

EI:East Indies

EIU:Even if used.

ELVENT:Electric Ventilation

ENE:East North-East.

EOP:End (Completion) of passage

EP:Estimated position.

ERLOAD:Expected ready to load.

ERV:Each round voyage.

EST:European Standard Time.

est.:Estimated.

ETA:Estimated Time of Arrival

ETBC:Easy trimmer bulk carrier.

ETC:Estimated Time of Completion

ETD:Estimated Time of Departure

ETF:Expected time of finishing

ETR:Expected to be ready.

ETS:Estimated Time of Sailing

EUROMED:European Mediterranean.

EXW:Ex Works

F & D:Freight and demurrage

F.DESP:Free dispatch.

F.DIS:Free discharge.

FAC:Fast as can

Faccop:Fast as can, according to the custom of the port.

FAF:Fuel adjustment factor

FAK:Freight all kinds (containers)

FAS:Free alongside; free arrival station.

FBD:Freeboard.

FBL:FIATA Combined transport bill of lading

FC:Fund Convention (for oil pollution damage).

FCA:Free to Carrier.

FCC:First class charterer

FCL:Full container load

FCS:Fresh of capture and seizure.

FCSSS:For Christ’s sake say something (slang).

FD:Free discharge; free of dispatch.

FDD:Freight Demurrage Deadfreight

FDEDANRSAOCLONL:Freight Deemed Earned Discountless & Non-Refundable Ship and/or Cargo Lost or Not Lost

FDESP:Free Dispatch

FDIS:Free Discharge

FEAST:Far East

FEU:Forty foot equivalent unit.

Ffa:Free from alongside.

FFI:For further instructions.

FH:First half

FHEX:Fridays, Holidays Excluded (Muslim Countries)

FHINC:Fridays and holidays included.

FIB:Free into barge; free into bunkers.

FICS:Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers, London.

FILO:Free in and liner out.

FILTD:Free in, liner terms discharge

FIO:Free In/Out.

FIOLS:Free in and out, lashed and secured.

FIOS:Free in and out, and stowed.

FIOSpT:Fee in and out, spout trimmed.

FIOST:Free in and out, stowed and trimmed.

FIOT:Free In/Out and Trimmed.

FISLSD/LO:Free in, stowed, lashed, secured and dunnaged /liner out.

FIT:Free In Trimmed OR Free of income tax

FIW:Free In Wagon

FLASH:Feeder lighter aboard ship

FLT:Full liner terms; forklift truck.

FMC:Federal Maritime Commission

FMS:Fathoms

FO:Free overside; fuel oil; furnace oil; for orders; free out.

FO (IFO):Fuel Oil (Intermediate Fuel Oil)

FOB:Free on Board.

FOBS:Free on board and stowed.

FOBT:Free on board and trimmed.

FOC:Flag of Convennience; free of conveyance; also free of charge

FOD:Free of damage.

FOFFER:Firm Offer

FOG:For Our Guidance

FOM:Flag, ownership and management.

FONASBA:Federation of National Association of Shipbrokers and Agents

FOQ:Free on quay.

FOR:Free On Rail

Freight (FRT):The price paid to a shipowner for the transportation of a cargo from one specific port to another. Freight often applies to voyage charters

Freight Rate:The agreed freight charge calculated by metric tons of cargo or deadweight ton per month

FW:Fresh water

G:Grain capacity.

G.A.:General Average.

G.B.:Great Britain.

G/B (GR/BL):Grain / bale capacity.

GBB:Gross ballast bonus.

GC:General cargo; great circle.

GENCAR (GENCGO):General cargo.

GEOG RTN:In geographical rotation.

G-H RGE:Gibraltar - Hamburg range

GIB:Gibraltar.

GLESS:Gear less.

GLFD:Gas oil.

GLS:Gearless

GN (or GR):Grain (capacity)

GNCN:Gencon (General Conditions)

GO:Gas Oil

GOP:Gross operating profit.

GP:General purpose

GRD:Geared.

GRT:Gross register ton.

GSB:Good Safe Berth

GSP:Good Safe Port

GSSL:Ports of Genoa, Savona, Spezia or Leghorn.

GSSLNCV:Ports of Genoa, Savona, Spezia, Leghorn, Naples, Civetta or Vecchia

GT:Gross tonnage.

GTEE:Guarantee

H.A. or D.:Le Havre, Antwerp or Dunkirk.

H.H. (H/H):Ports between and inclusive of Le Havre and Hamburg.

Ha:Hatch, hatchway.

HAT:Highest astronomical tide.

HBR:Hamburg range.

HC:hatch cover; hold cleaning.

HCHTRS:Head charterers.

HCM:Ho Chi Minh City.

HD:Half dispatch.

Handy (HDY):Vessel in a size between 20,000 - 40,000 dwt and mostly have gear on board (crane or derrick)

Handymax (Hdymax):Vessel in a size between 40 - 60,000 dwt (also called super or supra max). For handymax (or supramax) type of vessel being built onward 2000, are mostly equiped not also with crane but have grabs on board as well.

HDLTSBENDS:Half Dispatch Lay Time Saved Both Ends

HDWTS:Half Despatch Working Time Saved

HDWTSBE:Half dispatch working time saved both ends

HFO:Heavy fuel oil.

HG:Heavy grain.

HHDW:Handy Heavy d.w. (scrap)

HHDWS:Heavy, handy, deadweight scrap

HLESS:Harmless

HMB:Heavy motor block

HMS:Heavy Melting Scrap

HNS:Hazardous and Noxious Substances

HO:Hold

Ho/Ha:Holds/hatches.

HR/HRDS:Hampton Roads

HSD:High speed diesel.

HSS:Heavy grains, Soyabeans and sorghums

HVF:Heavy viscosity fuel oil.

HW:High Water

HWDW:Heavy, handy, dead weight.

HWLTHC:Height waterline to top hatch.

HWONT:High water at ordinary neap tides

HWOST:High water at ordinary spring tides

I.A.C.S. (IACS):International Association of Classification Societies.

IATA:International Air Transport Association.

IBC:Intermediate bulk carrier.

ICC:International Chamber of Commerce.

ICS:Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers; International Chamber of Shipping.

IDL:International Date Line.

IFO:Intermediate fuel oil.

IGM:Import general manifest.

IGS:Inert Gas System.

IHAM:Immigham

IHP:Indicated horse power.

ILO:International Labour Organisation, Geneva.

ILOHC:In lieu of hold cleaning.

ILOW:In lieu of weighing.

IMB:International Maritime Bureau.

IMDG:International Maritime Dangerous Goods

IMO:International Maritime Organisation

IN&/OR OVER:Goods carried below or on deck

IND:Indication

INDO:Indonesia.

INMARSAT:International Maritime Convention on Communication by Satellite.

INTERCARGO:International Association of Dry Cargo shipowners.

INTERTANKO:International Association of Independent Tanker Owners.

IOPC:International Oil Pollution Compensation

IOT (INCLOT):Including overtime.

ISF:International Shipping Federation.

ISM:International Safety Management (Code).

ISO:International Standards Organisation.

ITF:International Transport Worker’s Federation.

IU:If Used

IUATUC:If used actual time used to count

IUHTAUTC:If Used, Half Time Actually to Count

IWL:Institute Warranty Limits

J. & W.O.:Jettison and washing overboard.

JBL:Jubail

Jett:Jettison.

JV:Joint venture.

K:“000” i.e. thousand, e.g. 2K = two thousand.

k, kn, knt, kt, knot:Knot; nautical miles (6080 feet or 1853 metres) per hour.

KMT:Distance from keel to mast.

KRS:Koreans.

L:Laden.

L/D:Loading/discharging.

LA:Los Angeles

LASH:Lighter aboard ship (barge carrier).

LAT:Lowest austronomical tide; latitude.

Laycan or Lay/Can or L/C or LYCN:Layday (first date) / Canceling (last date) - of ship and cargo readiness

LB:Long Beach

LBP:Length between perpendiculars.

LC (L/C):London clause; letter of credit; laycan.

LCI:Lambert’s Capesize Index.

Lcr:Lowest current rate.

LDN:London; Laden

LDO:Light diesel oil.

LDPT:Load Port

LEFO:Land’s end for orders.

LGFM:Lond Grain Fixures Market

LHAR:London, Hull, Amsterdam or Rotterdam.

LIFO:Liner in, Free out; Last in, First out

LL:Laden legs; loadlines.

LLT:London landed terms.

LM:Lane metres.

LMC:Lloyd’s machinery certificate.

LNG:Liquefied natural gas (carrier).

LO:Lubricating oil.

LO/LO:Load-on and load-off or Lift-on and lift-off vessel.

LOA:Length Overall of the vessel

LOF:Lloyd’s Open Form. (Salvage Agreement), 1995.

LOI:Letter of indemnity.

LOW:Last open water.

LPD:Load port disbursements.

LPG:Liquified petroleum gas

Lpl:Liverpool

LQT:Liverpool quay terms.

LRATE:Load rate.

LS:Lumber (timber) summer loadline.

LS (or LUMPS):Lumpsum

LSD:Landing ship dock; landing, storage and delivery

LSD:Lashed Secured Dunnaged

LSLSDU:Loaded, stowed, lasned, secured, dunnaged and unlashed.

LT (It/Its):Long ton; liner terms; London terms.

Lt. V:Light vessel.

LTBENDS:Liner terms, both ends.

LTS (BE):Laytime saved (both ends).

LW:Low Water

LWNA:Lumber Winter North Atlantic (loadline).

M:Metre; measure; measurement.

M/R:Mate’s receipt.

M/V:Motor Vessel

MAA:Mina Al Ahmadi

MAP:Mono-ammonium phosphate

MARPOL:Convention for the Prevention of Maritime Pollution from ships (1973/1978).

MATS:Material(s), (i.e. dunnage).

MB:Merchant Broker

MB/T:Motor blocks/ turnings.

MBTE:Methyl, butyl, tertiaer ether

MDO:Marine diesel oil.

MED:Mediteranean

MEX:Mexico.

MH:Main hatch.

MHWN:Mean high water neaps (formerly, HWONT).

MHWS:Mean high water springs (formerly, HWOST).

MIC:Man-in-charge.

MICS:Member of the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers, London.

MIN/MAX: Minimum/Maximum

MIO:Millon(s).

ML:Motor launch.

MLD:Moulded.

MLLW:Mean low low water.

MLS:Miles.

MLW:Mean low low water.

MLWN:Mean low water neaps

MLWS:Mean low water springs

MOL:More or Less

MOLCHOPT:More or Less Charterers Option

MOLOO:More or Less Owners Option

MOP:Muriate of Potash (fertiliser)

MOS:Months.

MPP:Multi-purpose (vessel).

MRX:Medium range cross-purpose tanker.

MS:Motor shop; motor spirit; machinery survey.

MSA:Merchant Shipping Act.

MSC:Manchester Ship Canal; Maritime Safety Committee (of IMO).

Mst:Measurement.

MSV:Motor support vessel.

Mt:Empty.

MT:Metric ton (tonne); multimodal transport; main terms; motor tanker.

MTL:Mean tidal level.

MTO:Multimodal transport operator.

MTPA:Million metric tonnes per annum.

MV, M/V, M.V.:Motor vessel.

N:and; north

N.CONT / N.CONTI:North Continent.

n.E.:Not east of.

n.e.p.(NEP):Not elsewhere provided.

n.m.:Nautical mile.

n.N.(N/N):Not north of

N.O.P.:Net operating profit.

n.o.p.:Not otherwise provided.

n.S.:Not south of.

n.W.:Not west of.

N.Y.T.:New York Standard Time.

N/B:New building.

N/t:New terms (grain trade).

NA:North Atlantic; North America; nearest approach.

NAA:Not always Afloat

NAABSA:Not Always Afloat but Safely Aground

NCB:National Cargo Bureau

NCSA:North Coast South America

NES(n.e.s):Not elsewhere specified.

NEW:North West Europe

NEWCT:North East of West Coast Italy.

NHP:Nominal horse power.

NJ:New Jason clause in C/P.

NMPD:Nautical miles per day.

NNGWB:Not north of George Washington Bridge (i.e. New York).

NOLA:New Orleans

NOPAC:North Pacific (Ports)

NOR (N/R):Notice of Readiness.

NOR T & A:Notice of Readiness tendered and accepted.

NORT:Notice of Readiness tendered.

NPK:Nitro Phosphatic Kompound

NR:Northern Range of Ports (in US)

NR T (nrt):Not register tonnage.

NRT:Net Restricted Tonnage

NS:No sparring.

NSW:New South Wales (Australia)

NT:Net tonnage; neap tides; new tonnage.

NTC:Not to count.

NTCEIU:Not to count, even if used.

NTCEUU:Not to count, unless used.

NVOCC:Non-vessel owing common carrier.

NY (NYK):New York.

NYPE:New York Produce Exchange

O.O.:Owner’s option.

o.t.:Overtime.

O/B:On board.

O/C:Open charter; ore carrier

O/D:Over deck.

O/O:Oil/ore (or ore/oil) carrier.

o/w:Outward.

oa:Overall

OA OK:Overage okay.

oaaoop:On arrival at or of the port.

OABE:Owners agents both ends

OAFSP:On arrival first sea pilot.

OAGE:Overage.

OAHPS:On arrival harbour pilot station

OAL:Overall length (same as LOA).

OAPEC:Organisation of Arabic Petroleum Exporting Countries.

OBO:Oil, bulk, ore carrier.

OBQ:On board quantity.

Oc B/L:Ocean bill of lading.

OCC:Outward clearance certificate; Oil Co-ordination Committee.

OCIMF:Oil Companies International Marine Forum

ODM:Oil discharge monitor

OECD:Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

O-H (O/H):Off-hire.

OHBC:Open hatch bulk carrier.

OO:Owners Option

OPA:(US) Oil Pollution Act, 1990 or Owners Protecting Agent

OPEC:Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries.

OPT(opt):Option.

OSB:One safe berth.

OSD/CSD:Open shelter deck or closed shelter deck (vessel).

OSH:Open Shelter Deck

OSP:One safe port.

OSPB:One safe port or berth.

OSV:Offshore supply vessel.

OWS:Owners

P & I (PANDI):Protection and Indemnity (Club).

P + C (P AND C):Private and confidential.

PANAMAX:Vessel in size between 60,000 - 80,000 dwt, of maximum lenght, breadth and draft (fully loaded) capable of passing through the Panama Canal

p.f.t.:Per freight ton.

p.p. (pp):Picked ports.

p.p.i.:Policy proof of interest.

p.t. (PT):Per ton; private terms.

PA (P/A):Particular average.

PAD:Pacific Australia Direct

PASTUS:Past Us

PB:Permanent bunkers; poop and bridge.

PBF:Poop, bridge and forecastle.

PC:Period of Charter, Port Clearance

pc:Part cargo, parcel cargo.

PCC:Pure car carrier.

PCGO:Part Cargo

PCM:Per calender month (hire).

PCNT:Panama Canal Net Tonnage.

PCO (PICO):Port in charterer’s option.

PCT:Percent

PCTC:Pure car and truck carrier.

PD:Port dues.

PDPR:Per day pro-rata.

PER SE:By Itself

PERDIEM:By the Day

PG (P/G):Persian Gulf (also, referred as AG = Arabian Gulf)

PHC:Port handling charges.

PHD:Per hatch per day.

PHO:Port health officer.

PHPD:Per Hatch Per Day

PIC:Person in charge.

PIOPIC:P & I Oil Pollution Indemnity Clause.

PLS:Please

PMO:Passing Muscat outbound

PMT:Per metric ton.

POA:Place of acceptance.

POB:Pilot on board.

poc (POC):Port of call.

pod (POD):Port of Discharge

POL:Petroleum, oil and lube Or Port of Loading

por (POR):Port of refuge.

PPS:Pumps (capacity in cubic metres).

PPT:Prompt

PPUK:Picked ports of U.K

PQ:Province of Quebec.

PRC:People’s Republic of China.

PSG:Passing

PSI:Pounds per square inch; pre shipment inspection.

pssg (PSSG):Passing.

PST:Pacific Standard Time.

pt B:Port bunkers.

PUS:Past us.

PWWD:Per Weather Working day

q.c:Quantity at Captain's option

q.n.:Quotation.

qlty:Quality.

Quad:Canada, EC, Japan & US

QWT:Quay weight

R of T:Range of tide.

r.d.:Running days.

R/E:Rate of exchange.

R/P:Return to port for orders.

R/T:Revenue ton.

R/V (RV):Round voyage.

RAPL:Rotterdam – Amsterdam Pipeline.

RBAY:Richards Bay

RBCT:Richards Boy Coal Terminal.

RCN:Research octane number.

RCVR:Receivers

RDC (rdc):Running down clause.

Rds:Roads.

Re-cap:Recapitulation (summary of main points).

RED:Rate, extras demurrage.

REDEL:Re-delivery.

RELET:To sub-charter

RNR:Rate not reported.

Roads (roads):Anchorage Area

ROB:Remaining on board.

RORO (ro-ro):Roll-on/roll-off (vessel).

RPM:Revolutions (or rotations) per minute.

RPS:Revolutions (or rotations) per second.

RPT:Repeat.

RT:Right time of ship departure/arrival or rye terms.

RT:Revenue Tonne

RTBA:Rate to be agreed.

RTD:Round trip distance.

RUW:Ruwais (port)

S:Summer loadline; south.

S & P (S AND P):Sale and purchase.

S d/k:Shelter deck.

s.s. & c.:Same sea and country coast.

S/a:Safe arrival; subject to approval.

S/A (S.A.):South America; South Australia; South Africa; safe anchorage; Salvage Association.

S/F (SOF):Statement of facts.

S/N:Shipping note.

S/o:Shipowner.

S/S:Suez laden, Suez ballast.

SA/SHEX:Saturday afternoon/Sundays and holidays excepted.

SABIO:Stem and Berth in order

SATPM:Saturday P.M.

SB:Safe berth.

SBE:Standby engine.

SBM:Single buoy mooring (for oil tankers); soyabean meal (cargo).

SBT:Segregated ballast tanks.

SCNT:Suez Canal Net Tonnage.

SD:Single deck; self-discharging.

SDBC:Single Decker bulk carrier

SDR:Special Drawing Rights (IMF).

SDWT (sdwt):Summer deadweight.

SEA:South east Asia

SELFD:Self Discharging

SEMI-TRAILERS:Are usually 12.0 meter flatbed road trailers

SF:San Francisco; Summer Freeboard; Stowage factor.

SG:Specific gravity.

SH:Second Half

SHEX:Sundays and holidays excepted.

SHEXEIU:Sundays and holidays excepted, even if used.

SHEXUU:Sundays and holidays excepted, unless used.

SHINC:Sundays, Holidays Included

SHU:Shuaibu (port).

Sim Sub:Similar substitute.

SITPRO:Simplification of International Trade Procedures (Board).

SKO:Superior kerosene oil.

SKOR:South Korea

SL:Sailed.

SLT:Sludge Tank

SOB:Shipped on board.

SOC:Shipper Owned Container

SOF:Statement of Facts

SOLAS:International Convention on Safety of Life at Sea (1974/78).

SP:Safe Port

SPASS:Skaw - Passero (range)

spd:Ship pays dues; speed.

SPM:Single point mooring.

SPN:Spain

SOPT MARKET:The market for immediate employement of a vessel. Short term contracts, normally not longer than three months in duration.

SPT (spt):Spot.

SRBL:Signing and Releasing Bill of Lading

SS:Service speed; steamship; special survey.

SSHEX (or SATSHEX):Saturdays, Sundays, Holidays Excluded

SSHINC (or SATSHINC):Saturdays, Sundays, Holidays Included

SSW:Summer salt water.

STBC:Self-trimming bulk carrier

Stc:Said to contain

STCW:Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watch Keeping for Seafarers.

STD (std):Standard (timber trade).

STEM:Subject To Enough Merchandise (Availability of Cargo)

STERN:The aformost part of a ship

Sth:South

STL:Steel.

Stoa:Subject to owner’s approval.

Stw:Said to weigh.

SUB:Subject (to)

Sub open:Subject open

Sub stem:Subject stem (availability of cargo).

Subdets:Subject details (of C/P).

SUBDGS:Subject to Director-General of Shipping approval.

SUBs:Subjects (fixed on)

SUPER/SUPRAMAX:Vessel in a size between 50 - 60,000 dwt and mostly equiped with crane and have grabs on board.

SUIT:Suitable.

SV:Sailing vessel.

SW:Salt water; shipper’s weight.

SWAD:Salt Water Arrival Draft

SWDD:Salt water departure draft.

SWL:Safe working load (of cranes, derricks).

T:Tropical loadline

T/C Trip (TCT):Time charter trip.

T/P:Trans Pacific.

T/S:Time sheet; transshipment.

TAFHEX:Thursday afternoons Fridays and holidays excepted.

TARV (TA R/V):Trans Atlantic Round Voyage

TBA:To be advised.

TBD:To be declared.

TBMA:To be mutually agreed.

TBN:To be nominated

TC (T/C, t/c):Time charter (Contract for hire of a ship under which the shipowner is paid charterhire on a per day basis for a certain period of time, the shipowner being responsible for providing the crew and paying operating costs while the charterer is responsible for paying the voyage costs. Any delays at port or during the voyages are the responsibility of the charterer, save for certain specific exceptions such as loss of time arising from vessel breakdown and routine maintenance. (see Voyage Charter and Bareboat Charter)

TCE:Time charter equivalent (Freight revenues less voyage costs (bunker costs, port charges, agents fees, etc)

TCH:Time charter hire

TCM:Convention on the International Combined Transport of Goods.

TCT:Time charter Trip

TCY:Time charter yield

TDK:Tween decker.

TDW (tdw):Tons deadweight.

TECH:Toxic, explosive, corrosive and hazardous (dangerous cargo)

TEU:Twenty foot equivalent unit.

TF:Tropical fresh water loadline.

THC:Terminal handling charges,

TIB:Trimmed in bunkers.

TIP:Takind inward pilot

TMK:Tonnage mark.

TNC:Time to next cargo

TNGE:Tonnage.

TOTCOM:Total commission.

TOVALOP:Tanker Owners Voluntary Agreement Concerning Liability for oil Pollution

Tp:Time in port.

TPC:Tons per centimeter (immersion).

TPCM:Tons per cubic metre

TPD:Tons per day.

TPI:Tons per inch

TPRV (TP R/V):Trans Pacific Round Voyage

TR:Tons registered.

TRND:To be renamed.

Ts:Time at sea.

TSP:Triple super phosphate

TST:Topside tank.

TT:Telegraphic transfer; Turn-time

TTL:Total

TW:Tween Decker

TWHD:Tons per working or workable hatch per day.

TYT:Thanks your telex.

U.K.f.o.:United Kingdom for orders.

U.K.H.A.D.:United Kingdom and Le Havre-Antwerp-Dunkirk range.

U.K.H.H.:United Kingdom and Le Havre-Hamburg range.

U/D:Under deck.

UK/Cont (B.H.):United Kingdom or Continent (Bordeaux-Hamburg range).

UK/Cont (G.H.):United Kingdom or Continent (Gibraltar-Hamburg range).

UK/Cont (H.H.):United Kingdom or Continent (Le Havre-Hamburg range).

UKC:United Kingdom or Continent

ULCC:Ultra large crude carrier (Ultra large crude carrier exceeding 320,000 dwt)

UNCITRAL:United Nations’ Commission on International Trade Law.

UNCTAD:United Nations’ Commission on Trade and Development.

USAC:United States Atlantic Coast.

USC:Unless sooner commenced.

USCG:United States Coast Guard.

USEC (USEA):United States East Coast.

USG:United States Gulf of Mexico.

USNH:United States North of (Cape) Hatteras (northern range).

USNP:United States North Pacific.

USSH:United States South of (Cape) Hatteras.

USWC (USWE):United States West Coast.

UU:Unless Used

UUIWCTAUTC:Unless Used in Which Case Time Actually Used to Count

V/C:Voyage charter (Contract for hire of a ship under which a shipowner is paid freight on the basis of moving cargo from a loading port to a discharge port. Normally per ton of cargo. The shipowner is responsible for paying both operating costs and voyage costs. The charterer is typically responsible for any delay at the loading or discharging ports) (see Time Charter and Bareboat Charter)

VGO:Vacuum gas oil.

VLCC:Very large crude carrier of approximately 200,000 to 320,000 dwt

VLOO:Very large ore/oiler (carrier).

VOC:Vessel operating carrier.

VPD:Vessel Pays Dues

VTMS:Vessel traffic management system.

VTS:Vessel traffic system

W:Winter loadline mark; Worldscale.

W/M:Weight and/or measurement.

WAG:West Asia gulf

WB:Water ballast, waybill.

WCA:West Coast Africa.

WCCOM (WICCON):Whether (in) customs cleared (clearance) or not.

WCCON:Whether Customs Cleared Or Not

WCNA:West Coast of North America.

WCSA:West coast of South America

WCUK:West Coast United Kingdom.

WCUS:West Coast United States.

WD:Working days.

WE/EI:West Britain/East Ireland.

WECON:Whether entered (in) Customs of not.

WEST:Western Europe.

WFA:With following alterations.

WHD:Per working (workable) hatch per day.

WHT:Wheat.

WHTC:Wordscale—hours, terms and conditions.

WIBON:Whether In Berth Or Not

WIFPON:Whether in free pratique or not.

WIPON:Whether In Port Or Not

WL:Waterline.

WLTHC:Waterline to top of hatch coaming.

WLTOHC:Water Line-To-Hatch Coaming

WNA:Winter North Atlantic loadline mark.

WOB:Washed overboard.

WOG:Without Guarantee

WP:Weather Permitting

WPD:Weather Permitting Day

WRIC:Wire Rods In Coils

WS:Worldscale (Worldscale (WS): International freight index for tankers. A method of calculation of payment for the transport of oil by ships, for a single or several consecutive voyages. Worldscale is a table giving the amount of USD pr ton oil for a number of standard routes. The rates listed in the table - so-called flat rates termed W100 - are revised annually)

WT:Wing tanks

WTSBE:Working time saved both ends (Also, WTSBENDS).

WVNS:Within Vessel's natural segregation

WW:Weather working.

WWAWIWL:Worldwide and always within Institute Warranty Limits

WWD:Weather Working Day

WWDSHEX:Weather working days, Sundays and holidays excepted.

WWF:Waterside Workers' Federation

WWR:When, Where Ready

WWWW:Wibon, Wccon, Wifpon, Wipon

X:Shex, Sundays and holidays excepted.

XS:In excess of.

X-Whse:Ex-warehouse.

YAR:York Antwerp Rules

Z:UTC = GMT

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