Ships of 400 gross tonnes and above are required to have on board and implement a Ballast Water Management Plan...
Ships conducting ballast water management must discharge fewer than 10 viable organisms per cubic metre that are...
Any method to kill, remove or render infertile, harmful or potentially harmful organisms within ballast water.
Ballast Water Treatment System (BWTS) is a system designed to remove and destroy/inactive biological organisms...
The procedure during which seawater ballast is introduced in specific tanks to achieve a desired stability, draught...
A special link between a floating pipeline and hopper dredger.
A commercial shipping trade organisation headquartered in Copenhagen. BIMCO is one of the largest international...
A unit of pressure equal to 100 000 Pascal (14.5 PSIG).
A charter in which the bare ship is chartered without crew. The charterer for a stipulated sum takes over the vessel...
A flat-bottomed craft of full body, applied for the transportation of bulky freight such as coal or lumber, sand...
A way of loading cargo into large barges and then in turn loading the barges into a ship.
Ships designed to carry either barges or containers exclusively, or some variable number of barges and containers...
A small, primitive sea animal with a calcareous shell which in its adult form lives attached to some alien object...
An instrument used to measure atmospheric pressure.
Engine speeds that create harmful torsional vibration. The operation within the barred range is to be avoided.
Measure of oil. There are 7.1 barrels of oil in one ton. Each barrel is approximately 159 litres.
A horizontal line drawn along the top edge of the keel from midships.
Measure of a lubricant’s reserve alkalinity. It is measured in milligrams of potassium hydroxide per gram (mg KOH/g).
That part of the overall ship design process, which commences with design concept and terminates when there is...
A collection of products or data, treated as one entity with respect to certain operations e.g. processing and...