PSI
Pounds Per Square Inch or Pre Shipment Inspection
PSI
Pounds per square inch (lbsin2). A common unit of pressure particularly vapor pressure. Some folks express pressure specifications in kPa or bars. 1.0 lbin2 = 0.068947 bar = 6.8947 kPa
PSIG
Pounds Per Square Inch Gauge
PSIX
Port State Information Exchange (USCG)
PSPC
Polystyrene Packaging Council (USA)
PSR
Perils at Sea Revision
PST
Pacific Standard Time; Per Short Ton
PSV
Platform Supply Vessel -designed to supply offshore oil platforms
PT
Port or Private Terms or Product Tanker
PTC
Ports & Terminal Committee
Public Service Commission
A name usually given to a State body having control or regulation of public utilities.
Publishing Agent
Person authorized by transportation lines to publish tariffs or rates, rules, and regulations for their account.
PUFA
Poly-Unsaturated Fatty Acids. Fatty acids having two or more double bonds in their carbon chain. The most common poly-unsaturated fatty acid is linoleic acid. CH3 (CH2)4 CH = CH CH2 CH = CH(CH2)7 COOH Corn oil, sunflowerseed and soyabean oil are rich in poly-unsaturates. Poly-unsaturated fatty acids are recognised as more healthy than saturated fatty acids.
Puigs
""Pigs"" are used for cleaning pipelines. Hard pigs consist of several, usually three, discs of plastic on a central shaft. They are a close fit in the pipeline to be cleaned. They are pushed through by gas or air and evacuate any product ahead of them in the pipeline. They can also be fitted with wear compensating wire brushes when a more thorough pipe cleaning operation is required. Soft pigs consist of cylindrical plugs of foamed plastic, pushed through the pipeline in the same way.
Pulp Carrier
A vessel designed for carrying paper pulp
Pulp Temperature
Procedure where carrier tests the temperature of the internal flesh of refrigerated commodities to assure that the temperature at time of shipment conforms to prescribed temperature ranges.
Pumping Platform
A platform dedicated to pumping operations
Pup
A short semi–trailer used jointly with a dolly and another semi–trailer to create a twin trailer.
Purplefinder
Tracks, monitors and reports on remote assets. PurpleFinder® uses satellite GPS in conjunction with satellite or land-based communication services to provide global, two-way, real-time, web-access to standard and exception-based asset position reporting,
Pusher Tug
A vessel equipped to push cargo carrying barges and pontoons. May be articulated to work with specifically designed barge(s)
PVC
Polyvinyl Chloride. A polymer of vinyl chloride used to make a diverse range of cost-effective products with various levels of technical performance suited to a wide range of applications. Many of these PVC products are used everyday and include everything from medical devices such as medical tubing and blood bags, to footwear, electrical cables; packaging, stationery, and toys.
PW
Packed weight or Piece weight
PWHD
Per Workable Hatch Day
PWWD
Per Weather Working day
PX
Pump Room (OCIMF acronym)
Pygas
An abbreviation of pyrolysis gasoline.
Pyrolisis gasoline
Pyrolysis Gasoline, or Pygas, is a naphtha-range product with a high aromatic content, used either for gasoline blending or as a feedstock for a BTX extraction unit. Pygas is produced in an ethylene plant that processes butane, naphtha or gasoil.
Pyrolysis
Application of heat to change molecular structure. The oil industry ordinarily reserves this term for processes which break hydrocarbons without the assistance of a catalyst, such as steam cracking and cooking.
Pyrolysis gasoil
The distillate fuel oil produced by a heavy liquids steam cracker. This material usually finds use as a distillate blendstock.
Pyrolysis gasoline
The aromatics-rich naphtha-range stream produced in sizeable quantities by an ethylene plant when it cracks butane, naphtha, or gasoil. Pygas resembles reformate. It can serve as a high-octane blendstock for motor gasoline or as a feedstock for an aromatics extraction unit.
Pyrophoric
A substance which ignites spontaneously upon exposure to air (or oxygen).
Peanut Oil
The oil expressed or extracted from the seed of the groundnut ("Arachis Hypogaea") after removing the husk and the germ. Groundnuts are extensively cultivated in China, India, USA and in a number of African countries, for example Senegal, Nigeria and Sudan. The plant is unusual in pushing its unripe seed into the ground, where ripening takes place. Groundnut oil is a highly prized cooking oil.
Q88
Questionnaire 88; Q88.com is a web based questionnaire generator that allows you to create questionnaires for vessels.
QAR
Quality assurance representative (ISM)
QC
Quality at Captain's (option)
QI
Qualified Individual (OPA 90)
QTE
Quote. The act of a charterer to make known that a ship is sought for a particular cargo or, as a shipowner, to advertise the availability of his ship for charter. Most often this activity is carried out using the services of shipbrokers.
Quality Assessment
Often termed ""Quality Control"" or ""QC"", it is the measurement of chemical or physical properties to establish whether a sample conforms to specification. In manufacturing, such laboratory analyses are carried out periodically and the results are used to optimise the process. In trade, it is the basis of specifications in the contract between buyer and seller.
Quarantine
A restraint placed on an operation to protect the public against a health hazard. A ship may be quarantined so that it cannot leave a protected point. During the quarantine period, the Q flag is hoisted.
Quay
A structure attached to land to which a vessel is moored.See also Pier and Dock.
Quoin
A wedge–shaped piece of timber used to secure barrels against movement.
Quota
The quantity of goods that may be imported without restriction during a set period of time.
Quotation
An offer to sell goods at a stated price and under stated terms.
QWCT
Quay weight crane tonnage dues
QWT
Quay weight; Quay weight and Tonnage Dues
R&CC
Riots and civil commotion
R+M/2
A misleading, but popular, expression of (R+M)2. See antiknock index.
R.S.V.P.
Repondez, s'il vous plait (Please reply)
R/P
Return to Port (for orders)
R/T
Round trip or Radio Telephone or Rye Terms
R/V or RND or RV
Round voyage
RAC
Response Action Contractor
Rack blending
The practice of adding one or more components to a gasoline blend at an inland distribution terminal. Frequently, due to logistics, this type of blending occurs at the end of the distribution line. For instance, a supplier will add ethanol to finished gasoline while loading delivery trucks for shipment to retail outlets. This method of blending prevents ethanol, which has an affinity for water, from separating from the gasoline blend (phase separation) during transportation through a pipeline system.
Rack price
The truckload price charged by a supplier to customers which buy motor gasoline on an FOB terminal basis.
Radar Platform
A platform for operating radar equipment from
Radio Station Vessel
A vessel specifically adapted for used as a radio broadcasting station
Radioactivity
The property of some substances to emit invisible and potentially harmful radiation.
Raffinate
What remains of a reformate or pyrolysis gasoline stream after aromatics extraction. These paraffinic, naphtha-range mixtures usually have too low an octane rating for use in motor gasoline, but good properties for steam cracking. Butylene streams produced by ethylene plants also go by the name raffinate, or raff.
Rag Top
A slang term for an open–top trailer or container with a tarpaulin cover.
Rail Division
The amount of money an ocean carrier pays to the railroad for overland carriage.
Rail Grounding
The time that the container was discharged (grounded) from the train.
Rail Vehicles Carrier
A single or multi deck cargo ship with rails for the carriage of rail vehicles which are loaded via ramps
Ramp
Railroad terminal where containers are received or delivered and trains loaded or discharged. Original- ly, trailers moved onto the rearmost flatcar via a ramp and driven into position in a technique known as “circus loading.” Most modern rail facilities use lifting equipment to position containers onto the flatcars.
Ramp–to–Door
A movement where the load initiates at an origin rail ramp and terminates at a consignee’s door.
Ramp–to–Ramp
A movement of equipment from an origin rail ramp to a destination rail ramp only.
Ramsbottom carbon
A measurement of hydrocarbon mixtures' tendency to leave carbon deposits (coke) when burned as fuel or subjected to intense heat in a processing unit such as a catalytic cracker. See CONRADSON CARBON.
Rancidity
Rancidity is the development of off-odours and off-flavour in edible oils and fats or manufactured food products caused by oxidative deterioration. Primary oxidation products are odourless and tasteless but certain secondary decomposition products have particularly potent off-flavours and are detected by the palate at extremely low concentrations.
Rapeseed Oil
The oil obtained from the seeds of ""Brassica Napus"" and ""Brassica Campestris"". In common with other brassica oils such as mustard oils, rapeseed has a high content of erucic acid. Since this was found to have some adverse nutritional effects in animal feeding trials, breeding research has succeeded in producing low erucic or zero erucic acid oils. In addition, rapeseed oil contains sulphur containing chemicals which cause difficulty in processing. These have also been removed by breeding. The importance of rapeseed oil is that the crop can be grown in northerly climates such as Sweden, Germany, Poland and Canada, where other oilseeds crops do not succeed.
RAPL
Rotterdam - Amsterdam Pipeline
Rate Basis
A formula of the specific factors or elements that control the making of a rate. A rate can be based on any number of factors (i.e., weight, measure, equipment type, package, box, etc.).
Rateably
On a rateable basis. The industry uses this expression for paced delivery of product. Crude, for instance, can move from buyer to seller at some speed like a thousand barrels per day. The idea applies most naturally to pipeline-carried commodities.
Raw Materials
The primary raw materials of the oleochemicals industry are tall oil, tallow, coconut oil, palm oil, palm kernel oil, soybean oil, sunflower oil and canola oil.
RBCT
Richards Bay Coal Terminal
RBD
Refined, Bleached and Deodorised Oil. The initial letters of the words Refined, Bleached and Deodorised are used as a quality description of a fully processed oil. In Malaysia, RBD is used for a physically refined oil. After transport, RBD oils have to be re-refined before using them in the final food product.
RC
Refrigerated Container or Running Costs
