ABS(American Bureau of Shipping) : The ABS is one of the world's leading ship classification societies of USA. |
AIMS(American Institute of Merchant Shipping) : The AIMS is a shipowner's societies of USA. |
AFRA(Average Freight Rate Assessment) : The AFRA is, since April 1954, the freight rate index of tanker, which is proposed by the broker (the commission agent) committee of tanker at London. |
All Told (Total Deadweight Tonnage) : The ships weight tonnage subtract, on full loading, the light displacement from the ships displacement. |
AP for aged vessels : The AP for aged vessels is, according to the ship's obsolescence, the extra premium to offset the increase of danger to be caused by the ships service. |
ASA(American Shipbuilding Association) : The ASA is the national trade association that represents
Americas premier shipbuilders. that is, the big six shipbuilding industries company in opposition to the shipping agreement of OECD secede from the SCA (Shipbuilders Council of America). |
ASSONAVE : The ASSONAVE is the societies of shipbuilding industries of Italy. |
Assemble System : The assemble system is the highly rationalized modem system for ship's construction. |
AWES : The AWES means a societies of shipbuilding industries of europe. |
Ballast : The ballast is the weight to protect danger or unbalance through the loading or shifting of any weight on ship. |
BFI (Baltic Freight Index) : The BFI is the weighted averaging index of freight, according the mainly each service line of 12 lines in the Baltic freight rendezvous of London, since the 1985 to make public to be used at the futures market. |
BIMCO (Baltic International Maritime Council) : The BIMCO, established in 1905, is the worlds leading private association of shipping companies. |
Block Building : The block building means a block construction in the shipbuilding. |
Breast in : The ‘breast in' means the work to moor ship alongside the quay. |
Builder's Certificate : builder's certificate means a certificate of shipyard. |
Bulk Carrier : The Bulk Carrier is represented to the Bulker or generally BC, as the ship for carrying
of bulk. |
Bulk container : The Bulk Container is classified by the dry bulk container to be designed to transport the bulk cargo and the tank container to transport the liquid cargo, such as the foods, all kinds of oil and chemicals etc. |
Bulkhead : The Bulkhead is the wall to partition the internal space of ship into compartments, to be established for the ship’s safety, the leak and fire protection. |
BV : Bureau Veritas (The BV is a classification societies of France.) |
CAD : Computer Aided Design |
CAM : Computer Aided Manufacturing |
Capesize B.C : The Capesize BC is the maximum ship’s size of Bulk Carrier to be able to come into port. |
Cavitation : The cavitation is a phenomenon of representing in propeller |
CESA (Committee Of European union Shipbuilders' Association) : The shipbuilding companies of european-union become a members of the CESA |
CGRT : Since it is difficult to look on as the same quantities of work for the Tankers and LNG carrier, was brought in the index to supplement this problem. |
Chemical Tanker : The Chemical Tanker is a carrier of chemical products. |
CIRR (Commercial Interest Reference Rates) : The CIRR is the interest rate to be added up the 1 percent to the earnings rates of a national loan. |
Classification Society : The Classification Societies is the organ to inspect or overhaul the ship regularly under and after ship's construction. |
Consortium : The Consortium means the combined enterprise to perform together the container's service, which requires the massive capital investment. |
COA (Contract Of Affreightment) : The COA means the contract of maritime carriage. |
Cow (crude oil washing) : The COW is the washing technique to dissolve and inject under pressurization by the fixed washer in the process to pump a portion of loading crude oil, using the dissolving capability of the crude oil |
DNV : The DNV is a classification societies of Norway. |
Draft Survey : The Draft Survey is the survey by the maritime inspector to decide loading height of cargo at a shipping point. |
Dredger : The dredger is a special vessel for dredging. |
Economical Speed : It means the most economical speed, which the ship is able to voyage the maximum cruising radius using the minimum fuel consumption and expenses. |
Euroyards : Its members are AESA, HDW, Fincantieri, I’Atlantique, and Bremer Vulkan shipbuilding industries company etc., as the large scalee shipbuilding industries of Europe, and it was established to target for the interlocation way with the shipbuilding industries of Korea-Japan and the joint development of E3 Tanker. |
Feeder Service : The Feeder Service is the transport in aid of another transportation way. |
FEFC : The FEFC was established on 1879, and is the federation of freight, the closed federation, of the Far East and Europe service line with the history of 120 years. |
Freight Ton : The Freight Ton means the weight tonnage of cargo as the basis of counting of cargo freight. |
GMDSS : The GMDSS is the distress and safety system in all the world at sea. |
HBL : Hydrostatically Balanced Loading |
IACS : The IACS is the union of international classification societies of 7 nations of ABS etc. to be organized in October 1968, to mutually cooperate and council of common objects as the classification societies. |
IMIF : The IMF is the one to be make public with the one to respond to the scale No.3 by the Association of Intascalee on March, 1962, as also the representative committee of Intascalee Rate London Broker.. |
International Multimodal Transport :The IMT is the system to intend the rationalization and efficiency of transportation through combination with the merit of various vehicles, such as the train, the truck, the ship and the airplane etc. |
INTERTANKO : International Association of independent Tanker Owners. |
ISO : International Standardization Organization |
JSA : The Japanese Shipowners' Association. |
JSEA : Japan Ship Exporters Association |
Keel : The keel passes through the center of ship's bottom, as the longitudinal plate to conform to the ship's spine, and the ships block is assembled on that. Owing to sustain the ship's overall weight, it is the most important beam plate on the lower part plate of ship's hull structure. |
KR : The KR is a ship's classification societies of Korea. |
K/S : The K/S is the abbreviation of Kommandittselskap |
Light Displacement : The Light Displacement means the displacement in the condition of light draft, which is the condition to the excluded the weight of cargo. |
Lloyd's Register of shipping : The Lloyd’s Register of Shipping is the Lloyd's classification societies of UK, established in 1834, and its main service are the publication of a register book of shipping, the adjudication of ship's grade and etc. |
MARAD : Maritime Administration of Department of Transportation. |
Metric Ton : The Metric Ton is counted 1000kg to 1 ton, as the unit of weight. |
MSC : Maritime Safety Committee |
NK : The NK is a maritime classification societies of Japan |
OECD WP6 : Organization tor Economic Cooperation and Development, Working Party6 |
Operating Cost : The operating cost is the cost for ships management and maintain, and these costs are the crew's tee, the insurance, the maintenance, the strong, the lubricating oil and the spare fixtures cost, etc. |
Panamax B.C : The Panamax BC means the designed ship with the ship's breath, 32.2m to the able to ply the Panama Canal (Generally, 56,000 – 64,000 DWT) |
P&I Club : Protection and Indemnity Club |
PPP : Polluter Pays Principle |
SCA : The SCA is the societies of shipping industries of USA, to be established in 1920. |
SLB Service : The SLB is the type of sea and land complex transportation to deport to the district of europe by way of the Siberia continent from the Far East |
SUNAMAM : The National Maritime Superintendency |
TEU : Twenty-feet Equivalent Units |
Tramp : The tramper is a liner with an irregular running service on line. |
TSL : The TSL is the super high speed vessel of the latest fashion, to take developing aim at the security of seaworthiness, as the transportation vehicle with the speed 50 knots or more, the loading weight 1000 tons or more and the cruising distance 500 national miles or more. |
ULCC : The ULCC means the Tanker of super large scale, as 300,000 DWT class or more. |
UNEP : The UNEP is the organ under United Nations to be made to cover the protection problems of environment of earth. |
VLBC : Very Large Bulk Carrier |
VLCC : The VLCC means the super large tanker, that is, the very large crude oil carrier, 300,000 DWT or more. |
VOCC : The VOCC means the porter to be retaining the directly own ship, as the common carrier |
Voyage Charter : The Voyage Charter is the contract of carriage between the shipowner and the owner of goods to be concluded to transport the cargo from any harbor to another harbor. |