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Home » A-Z Of Maritime Terms

A-Z Of Maritime Terms

by Joshua
July 27, 2020
in Shiptalk

This glossary of maritime terms is offered as an aid to better understanding what is meant by those who make their living from ports and ships.

BONDED WAREHOUSE – An area of security approved by custom authorities for the safekeeping or deposit of goods liable for excise duty but not yet subject to that duty.

BOW THRUSTERS – A propeller at the lower sea-covered part of the bow of the ship, which turns at right angles to the fore-and-aft line and thus provides transverse thrust as a manoeuvring aid.

B/p or BOP – Balance of payments.

BOX – a term used for a container.

BOXTIME – Standard BIMVO time charter for container ships.

BREADTH – See Beam

BREAKBULK VESSEL – A general, multipurpose, cargo ship that carriers cargoes of non-uniform sizes, often on pallets, resulting in labour-intensive loading and unloading.

BREAK BULK CARGO – Goods carried in the hold of ships and not in containers.

BULK – Cargo shipped in loose condition and of a homogeneous nature. Cargoes that are shipped unpackaged either dry, such as grain and ore, or liquid, such as petroleum products. Bulk service generally is not provided on a regularly scheduled basis, but rather as needed, on specialized ships, transporting a specific commodity.

BULK CARRIER – Ship specifically designed to transport large amounts of cargoes such as sugar, grain, wine, ore, chemicals, liquefied natural gas; coal, ore etc. See also LNG Carrier, Tanker, OBO Ship.

BULKHEAD – A name given to any vertical partition which separates different compartments or spaces from one another.

BUNKERS – Fuel consumed by the engines of a ship; compartments or tanks in a ship for fuel storage.

BUOY – A floating object marking the navigable limits of channels, sunken dangers, isolated rocks, telegraph cables etc.

CABLE SHIP – a specially constructed ship for the laying and repairing of telegraph and telephone cables across channels, seas, lakes, and oceans.

CABOTAGE – The carriage of goods or passengers for remuneration taken on at one point and discharged at another point within the territory of the same country.

CABOTAGE POLICIES – Reservation of a country's coastal (domestic) shipping for its own flag vessels.

CAPESIZE – a term used to describe a ship, usually a dry or wet bulker, that is too large to transit the canals and as a consequence must travel via the 'capes', ie Cape of Good Hope and Cape Horn.

CARGO HANDLING – The act of loading and discharging a cargo ship.

CARGO PLAN – A plan giving the quantities and description of the various grades carried in the ship's cargo tanks, after the loading is completed.

CARGO PREFERENCE – Reserving a portion of a nation's imports and exports to national-flag vessels.

CARRIERS – Owners or operators of vessels providing transportation to shippers. The term is also sometimes used to refer to the vessels, i.e. ore carriers.

CERTIFICATE OF REGISTRY – A document specifying the nation registry of the vessel.

CHANDLER – a person who deals in the selling of provisions, dried stores, etc.

CHARTER – Hiring out of a ship by a shipowner.

CHARTERER – The person who has chartered the ship for a specified period of time.

CHARTER RATES – The tariff applied for chartering tonnage in a particular trade.

CHARTER PARTY – A contractual agreement between a ship owner and a cargo owner, usually arranged by a broker, whereby a ship is chartered (hired) either for one voyage or a period of time.

*To be continued next week

 


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