Maritime Terms, Abbreviations and Acronyms

All rigging, cranes, etc., utilized on a ship to load or unload cargo.

The tender of one lot of cargo at one time from one shipper to one consignee on one bill of lading.

The person or company who is usually the supplier or owner of commodities shipped. Also called Consignor.

A joint Bureau of the Census’ International Trade Administration form used for compiling U.S. ex- ports. It is completed by a shipper and shows the value, weight, destination, etc., of export shipments as well as Schedule B commodity code.

Shipper’s communication(s) to its agent and/or directly to the international water–carrier. Instructions may be varied, e.g., specific details/clauses to be printed on the B/L, directions for cargo pickup and delivery.

The document required by the carrier or freight forwarders to obtain (besides the data needed) authorization to issue and sign the air waybill in the name of the shipper.

Shipments loaded and sealed by shippers and not checked or verified by the carriers.

A non–profit entity that represents the interests of a number of shippers. The main focus of shippers associations is to pool the cargo volumes of members to leverage the most favorable service contract rate levels.

The act of the U.S. Congress (1916) that created the U.S. Shipping Board to develop water transporta- tion, operate the merchant ships owned by the government, and regulate the water carriers engaged in commerce under the flag of the United States. As of June 18, 1984, applies only to domestic offshore ocean transport.

Effective June 18, 1984, describes the law covering water transportation in the U.S. foreign trade.

Amends the Act of 1984 to provide for confidential service contracts and other items.

Shipper’s instructions to carrier for forwarding goods; usually the triplicate copy of the bill of lading.

Shipment

A thin coating that is applied to new steel in a newbuilding shipyard to protect it from corrosion during the building process

A vessel adapted for uses as a shopping complex

A prop or support placed against or beneath anything to prevent sinking or sagging.

Quality data on a shipment derived from storage tank samples taken prior to loading or quantity determination based on storage depletion in the course of loading. Shore tank gauging could also give useful information on the quantity of oil discharged into a receiver's terminal. The industry ordinarily tests discharge (often called outturn) quality of unloaded oil before it moves ashore. These data come from unloading line or ship's composite samples. Suppliers and receivers often use shore figures to verify or dispute ship's figures.

Short Sea Shipping means the movement of cargo by sea between ports situated in geographical Eu- rope or between those ports situated in non-European countries having a coastline on the enclosed seas bordering Europe (Baltic, Mediterranean and Black). It is a successful mode of transport in Eu- rope.

A weight unit of measure equal to 2,000 pounds.

Anhydrous fats used in the bakery industry, catering trade and also in domestic kitchens. Plasticity is imparted to these products by texturisation of the feed stock (generally blends of two or more oils and fats) in scraped surface tube coolers to produce small crystals enmeshing liquid oil in a crystalline network. In some cases, gas is also incorporated to improve their plasticity. Animal fats, being solid fats, were the first materials used for making shortenings. Compound shortenings using liquid oil and oleo-stearin from animal fats replaced 100% animal fat-based shortening. Hydrogenation of oils enabled the manufacturer to replace animal fat with hydrogenated oil and develop shortenings based on 100% vegetable oils/fats. Shortenings are formulated and produced to satisfy specific markets and users requirements and therefore show a wide variation in physical properties. The following types of shortenings can be listed - a. bakery shortenings (e.g. plastic shortenings, high ratio cake shortenings and liquid shortenings). b. industrial shortenings for the catering trade, and c. domestic shortenings.

Shaft horse power

State Historic Preservation Office (or Officer)

Polyethylene or similar substance heat–treated and shrunk into an envelope around several units, thereby securing them as a single pack for presentation or to secure units on a pallet.

Shuaibu

A tanker for the bulk carriage of crude oil specifically for operation between offshore terminals and refineries. Is typically fitted with bow loading facilities

Single/tweendeck

SIDS Initial Assessment Meeting - See HPV Programme

SIDS Initial Assessment Profile (SIAP) - See HPV Programme

SIDS Initial Assessment Report (SIAR) - See HPV Programme

A lift truck fitted with lifting attachments operating to one side for handling containers.

A container fitted with a rear door and a minimum of one side door.

Screening Initial Data Set Dossier - See HPV Programme

The Society of International Gas Tanker & Terminal Operators: The Society is a non-profit making company, formed to promote high operating standards and best practices in gas tankers and terminals throughout the world. It provides technical advice and s

A draft payable upon presentation to the drawee.

Society of International Gas Tanker and Terminal Operators

Similar

A facility which has no cracking or other secondary processing hardware. "Simple yields," therefore, mean the product slate such an unsophisticated plant can make from crude. See topping yields.

A triglyceride comprised of three identical fatty acids.

Ship SIR (Chemical) and (Gas)

Styrene Information and Research Council (USA)

Ship Inspection Report Exchange: The OCIMF managed database system that will hold the Inspection Reports carried out by participating members. The aim is to reduce the duplication of the number of inspections carried out on vessels.

Stopping in transit

Simplification of International Trade Procedures (Board)

Are bearers (timber or steel) positioned under cargo to enable fork lift handling at port, and for ease of rigging and lashing on board ship

Superior kerosene oil

South Korea

A small triangular sail set above the skysail in order to maximize effect in a light wind.

Sailed or Salvage Loss

Shipper's load and count

Shipper's Load and Tally

Shippers load and count.All three clauses are used as needed on the bill of lading to exclude the carrier from liability when the cargo is loaded by the shipper.

Sailed

Loaded containers moving within the railroad system that are not clearly identified on any internally generated reports.

Stability and Load Lines and on Fishing Vessels' Safety

A wire or rope contrivance placed around cargo and used to load or discharge it to/from a vessel.

A vessel’s berth between two piers.

Fats consist of a complex mixture of glycerides and therefore do not have sharp melting points, unlike pure chemical substances. The slip point of a fat is the temperature at which a column of fat in an open capillary tube moves up the tube when it is subjected to controlled heating in a waterbath. Because of their polymorphic behaviour, the slip point of some fats is dependent on the previous temperature treatment, i.e. tempering of the sample and, therefore, not very reliable analysis.

Whereby a dedicated slop handling vessel supplies a quantity of oil to a vessel for tank washing and/or line flushing purposes.

A tank utilized to store the COW medium and receipt of tank washings.

A time or voyage charter under which the slot charterer has the right to use only a specified amount of the ship's container carrying capacity. In container liner trades, such charters may be reciprocal ("cross slot charters") between operators / carriers, in order to share capacity.

Slop Tanks

Shipper's load, stow and count

Stowed, lashed, secured, dunnaged

Sludge Tank

That element of the material in a ship's cargo tank which is essentially not free flowing. It consists or hydrocarbon waxes and may contain water/oil emulsions and sediments.

A slushy slurry of fat was obtained by boiling or scraping the empty salted meat storage barrels. This stuff called "slush" was often sold ashore by the ship's cook for the benefit of himself or the crew. The money so derived became known as a slush fund.

Styrene Monomer

Tankers often used in coastal waters -Size: 10,001 dwt - 19,000 dwt

Ship Management Certificate (ISM)

Small and medium-sized enterprise

Tank Cleaning: Minor residues of a smell-producing cargo left in lines, valves and pumps (including pump cofferdams) can contaminate a sensitive cargo. To neutralise the smell of some chemicals (e.g. Acrylate, Nitrobenzene or Pygas) the use of a smell killer may be recommended.

Safety Management Manual (ISM)

The temperature at which smoke is visibly evolved from an oil as it is being heated. The smoke point is highly dependent on the content of free fatty acids in the oil. A high smoke point is desirable, particularly when using an oil for frying.

An indication of how cleanly kerosene burns. The test reports how high a flame can extend above a wick-fed lamp without making soot.

Safety Management System

Ship's option or Shipping order

Soap is commonly used to describe the chemical compound formed by the reaction of an alkali or a metal with fat or fatty acids. Sodium soaps are the most usual products used for toilet and laundry washing. Calcium, potassium and ammonium salts have some specialised uses.

The aqueous by-product from the chemical refining operation that is comprised of soap, hydrated gums, water, oil and other impurities.

In the chemical refining of crude oils, free fatty acids are removed by neutralisation with alkali and settle to the bottom as alkali soaps, known as soapstock.

Shipped on board

Shipper Owned Container

Statement of Compliance for Port Facility

Statement of facts. At the end of the stay of the ship in the port the agent will make up the history with all data which are important for the Ship Owner and for the Charterer and that are related to the loading and the discharging of the ship. This historical state is called "statement of facts" or "port log" and serves as the basis for the drawing of the "time sheet" used for the calculating of the laytime and demurrage and possibly despatch money. The officer on board must record all information related to the loading or discharging *working hours, interruptions of loading and/or discharging) in the ship's log book or in a special workbook.

Shipowner's liability or Shipper owned/leased

International Convention for Safety Of Life At Sea (1974/78): The International regulations which relates to the safe construction and safety equipment to be carried on all sea going self propelled vessels.

Fats such as butter, margarine, bakery shortening, beef tallow and cocoa butter appear to be solid but are, in fact, a mixture of solid and liquid components. The proportion of solid present at various temperatures of use is often of interest in relation to the function to be performed, for example, the spreading of butter on bread. A simple and rapid measurement of the solid fat content (SFC) can be obtained by the use of a nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) instrument. The measurement depends on the fact that the protons of the combined hydrogen atoms of fat in the liquid state are more mobile than those of the fat in the solid state. The mobile protons are therefore more responsive to a magnetic field and this fact can be used to measure the proportion of liquid fat present. The method is superseding the dilation procedure.

The extent to which a substance mixes with a liquid to produce a solution

A solvent is a liquid that has the ability to dissolve, suspend or extract other materials, without chemical change to the material or solvent. Solvents make it possible to process, apply, clean or separate materials. Water is an inorganic solvent. Organic solvents include hydrocarbon solvents, oxygenated solvents and chlorinated solvents.

A process which usually uses hexane as a solvent to extract oil from oil-bearing materials. The residual oil left in extracted soyabean flakes or meal can be reduced to one percent or less. In the United States, nearly all soyabeans are processed by solvent extraction. A substantial part of cottonseed, flaxseed and other oilseeds is handled by this method.

Swedish Official Measure

When in port, and with the crew restricted to the ship for any extended period of time, wives and ladies of easy virtue often were allowed to live aboard along with the crew. Infrequently, but not uncommonly, children were born aboard, and a convenient place for this was between guns on the gun deck. If the child's father was unknown, they were entered in the ship's log as "son of a gun".

Standard Operating Procedures

Shipboard Oil Pollution Emergency Plan (ISM)

State On-Scene (On-Site) Commander

High in sulfur content. Sour vacuum gasoils, for example, contain more than about 0.5 sulfur, the common limit for sweet vacuum gasoils. Application of this term to natural gasolines tends to focus on mercaptan sulfur concentration. Sour natural gasolines test Doctor positive.

Petroleum with high sulfur content. In this case, high commonly means more than 1.0 weight percent.

Crude oil with a high sulphur content.

Under hook

Under hook discharge

see Northern grade. Motor gasoline that meets Colonial pipeline specifications for product delivered to points south of Greensboro, North Carolina