Triangular plates often used for joining angle bar to plate steel. … [Read more...]

A short length of the ship’s anchor cable which is found between the ‘Anchor Crown ‘D’ Shackle’ and the fist joining shackle of the cable. It may contain a swivel and usually is made up of only a few links. … [Read more...]

If charterers have the option of loading or discharging a ship in several ports within a particular range for example, "ARH range" (Antwerp-Rotterdam-Hamburg range), it is important to stipulate that if this option is exercised, the ship will be ordered to proceed to the ports in a geographical rotation. Sometimes the charterparty will contain an express clause dealing with port rotation. … [Read more...]

This is part of the description of the cargo-carrying capacity of the ship. It is sometimes termed "Grain space capacity" or "Grain space”. If the ship is to carry dry bulk cargo, in granular or particle form, the cargo compartments for the cargo must be described in such a way that it can be calculated how many tonnes the ship can carry. The stowage factor of the commodity would be used in such a calculation. The volume of the cargo compartments is measured from side to side, even between the ship's frames, because that is the manner in which a dry-bulk cargo will flow when loaded into the … [Read more...]

Charterers of coal, ore, phosphate in bulk, wheat, bulk sugar, grains etc. which can be discharged by grabs, often stipulate that no cargo must be loaded in "deep tanks". Deep  tanks  are generally found in older style "general cargo ships" which had cargo compartments divided into separate holds (even modern dry cargo ships' cargo spaces are divided into "holds") and when the ship had to carry some liquid cargo (for example, vegetable oil) as pan of its general cargo, it required steel tanks within  the cargo spaces. Such tanks were part of the structure of the ship and could be used even for … [Read more...]

is a cargo ship constructed or adapted and used for the carriage in bulk of any liquefied gas or other products listed in the table of Chapter 19 of the IGC Code. … [Read more...]

a large heavy-lifting structure found at container terminals employed to load/discharge containers to and from container vessels. Some container vessels carry their own traveling gantry crane system on board  … [Read more...]

The upper edge of a vessel or boat's side.That horizontal plank which covers the heads of the timbers between the main and fore drifts.  … [Read more...]

Running ashore (hitting the bot-tom). … [Read more...]

A term used to cover all of the anchor gear. … [Read more...]