Maritime Terms, Abbreviations and Acronyms

Delay in Startup Insurance is a policy to protect the seller of a construction project from penalties if the project is not completed on time. See “Liquidated Damages.”

Diving System

Deep Tank

Attempting to import merchandise into a country at a price less than the fair market value, usually through subsidy by exporting country.

Protection from damage, for ventilation and, in the case of certain cargoes, to provide space in which the types of a fork lift truck may be inserted.

Duration

Dates to the 1600s Anglo-Dutch wars and was likely British propaganda claiming that the Dutch troops were so cowardly they wouldn’t fight unless fortified with copious amounts of schnapps. The term has come to mean false courage induced by drink, or the drink itself.

The amount on which an Ad Valorem or customs duty is calculated.

Dock water allowance

Deadweight. Weight of cargo, stores and water, i.e. the difference between lightship and loaded displacement

Deadweight. Weight of cargo, stores and water, i.e. the difference between lightship and loaded displacement

Deadweight cargo capacity

Deadweight cargo tons

Decline without counter

East

Exploration and Production function of the Shell Group

Except otherwise herein provided

End of passage

Engine and Bridge aft

Unattended engine room

Ethyl alcohol = ethanol

Expected arrival time

Empty ballast

European Basic Acrylic Monomer Group, a sector group of the Association of Petrochemicals Producers in Europe (APPE). For more information, click here.

A receeding current

EBIS, the European Barge Inspection Scheme: Started operations on 1st July 1998. The Scheme has been developed by oil and chemical companies as part of their commitment to improving the safety of tanker barging operations within Europe. The main aim of E

Ethyl Butyl Ketone, solvent

East Coast

European Communities

Effective concentration 50%: The concentration of a material which produces 50% response in the defined end-point. The EC50 should be cited for a specific exposure period.

East Coast (UK) coal port

Electronic Chart Display

Electronic Chart Display and Information System. Electronic Chart Display and Information System - An ECDIS is a ship borne electronic navigational device designed to display digital nautical charts that is tested and type-approved to international standards and may be used, in conjunction with appropriate ENCs and backup arragements, as a means of primary navigation. The use of ENCs in a type-approved ECDIS and with appropriate back up arrangements, is the only paperless chart option for SOLAS vessel navigation. All ECDIS systems are required to be able to load and display digital nautical charts in standard S-57/S-63 format, and some systems may also accept data in a proprietary SENC format. In addition, an ECDIS is only an ECDIS, when it is using official electronic nautical charts (ENCs) that have been produced by an authorised body, such as a hydrographic office. The use of an ECDIS in conjunction with ENCs and appropriate back up arrangements, is the only legal option for so-called paperless navigation.

Existing Chemicals Group

East Coast of Great Britain

Epichlorohydrin

East coast of Ireland

East coast of India

East coast of Mexico

The U.S. Exporters Competitive Maritime Council. An association primarily of U.S. engineering, procurement and construction companies and their freight forwarders that was formed jointly by the Maritime Administration in 1997 to seek solutions to transportation problems and enhance the export of U.S. project cargoes.

Eastern Central Motor Carriers Association.

East Coast of North America

European Council for Plasticizers and Intermediates, a sector group of Cefic.

Engine Control Room

Electronic Chart System

Electronic Chart System - An ECS is any ship borne electronic navigational device that is designed to display digital nautical charts but is not tested and type-approved as an ECDIS. An ECS may be used as an aide to navigation by a SOLAS vessels but cannot be used as a primary means of navigation or to satisfy SOLAS chart carriage requirements. ECS system are widely used in non-SOLAS applications and as they are not type-approved they can incorporate special features that meet particular application requirements, such as portable pilot units. Many ECS systems use proprietary chart data formats and do not accept digital chart data in standard S-57/S-63 or dENC format.

East Coast of South America

European currency units

East Coast of United Kingdom

East Coast of U.S.A

European Council of Vinyl Manufacturers

The accumulation of an excessive amount of watery fluid in cells and tissues. Pulmonary edema is an excessive buildup of water in the lungs, for instance, after inhalation of a gas that is corrosive to lung tissue.

An angle piece fitted over the edge of boxes, crates, bundles and other packages to prevent the pressure from metal bands or other types from cutting into the package.

Electronic data interchange

A cargo ship designed for the bulk transport of Edible Oils in tanks. Tanks will be stainless steel or lined. New vessels will be classified as chemical carriers

A tanker for the bulk carriage of edible oils which is not suitable for trading in open waters. New vessels will be classified as chemical tankers as defined in the International Bulk Chemical Code

International data interchange standards sponsored by the United Nations. See UN/EDIFACT.

Effective Daily Recovery Capacity

Ethylenediamine Tetraacetic Acid. See Ethyleneamines

European Economic Community

Energy Efficiency Design Index

Energy Efficiency Operational Indicator

European Ethylene Producers Committee (a sub-group of LOSG). For more information, click here.

Eastern European Terminal Forum

European Flavor and Fragrance Association

A vessel equipped for the transportation of effluents. Discharge at sea is now illegal

European Fuel Oxygenates Association, a sector group of the Association of Petrochemicals Producers in Europe (APPE).

European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations

European Free Trade Association

Ethylene Glycol. Generic term for a family of ethylene glycols, the most important of which is monoethylene glycol.

Ethylene Glycol Butyl Ether

Ethylene Glycol Butyl Ether Acetate

Code for Existing Ships Carrying Liquefied Gases in Bulk

Enhanced Group Calling

Export general manifest

Ethylene glycol monobutyl ether

Egypt

East Indies

European IPPC Bureau (See Best Available Techniques)

Even if used

Even if used both ends

Electric motor room (OCIMF acronym)

A polymer that forms a disorganized molecular pile capable of uncoiling and recoiling in response to physical force and its removal. This ability to yield and recover makes a substance rubbery. Industry turns molecules into flexible, strectchable, compressible, resilient goods.

A polymer with the properties of rubber. Polymers that can be formulated as elastomers are polyurethane, butyl rubber, silicones and specially treated ethylene-propylene copolymers.

A non propelled pontoon used for the purpose of electricity generation

corrosion involving at lest one anodic reaction and one cathodic reaction

Corrosion protection achieved by electrical control of the corrosion potential. See also anodic protection and cathodic protection

Electronic conductor in contact with an electrolyte

voltage measured in the external circuit between an electrode and reference electrode in contact with the same electrolyte

Interfacial reaction which gives rise to a transfer of charge between an electronic conductor and an electrolyte

Medium in which electric current is transported by ions

Elemica is a trademark of the Elemica group of companies.

A charge for services performed in connection with floating elevators or charges assessed for the handling of grain through grain elevators.

An act of Congress (1903) prohibiting rebates, concession, misbilling, etc. and providing specific penalties for such violations.

Emission Limit Value

Electric Ventilation

Order to restrict the hauling of freight.

Emergency Management Division

East Mediterranean

The sovereign power to take property for a necessary public use, with reasonable compensation.