Bulk carrier, the Glossary
A bulk carrier or bulker is a merchant ship specially designed to transport unpackaged bulk cargo—such as grain, coal, ore, steel coils, and cement—in its cargo holds.[1]
Table of Contents
183 relations: Able seaman, Aggregate (composite), Alang, Alternator, American Bureau of Shipping, Angle of list, Angle of repose, Atlantic Ocean, Atlantska plovidba, Ballast tank, Bauxite, Beam (nautical), Boatswain, Bridge, Bulbous bow, Bulk cargo, Bulldozer, Cape Horn, Cape of Good Hope, Capesize, Carbon steel, Cargo ship, Chartering (shipping), Chemical tanker, Chief cook, Chief engineer, Chief mate, Chief steward, Chinamax, Chittagong, Coast, Coastal trading vessel, Code of Safe Practice for Ships Carrying Timber Deck Cargoes, Collier (ship), Concrete, Container ship, Conveyor belt, Conveyor system, Cornships Management and Agency, Corrosion, Corrugated galvanised iron, Crane (machine), Croatia, Crosshead, Daewoo, Dampskibsselskabet Torm, Deadweight tonnage, Deck cadet, Deck department, Derrick, ... Expand index (133 more) »
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Able seaman
An able seaman (AB) is a seaman and member of the deck department of a merchant ship with more than two years' experience at sea and considered "well acquainted with his duty".
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Aggregate (composite)
Aggregate is the component of a composite material that resists compressive stress and provides bulk to the composite material.
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Alang
Alang is a census town in Bhavnagar district in the Indian state of Gujarat.
Alternator
An alternator is an electrical generator that converts mechanical energy to electrical energy in the form of alternating current.
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American Bureau of Shipping
The American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) is an American maritime classification society established in 1862.
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Angle of list
The angle of list is the degree to which a vessel heels (leans or tilts) to either port or starboard at equilibrium—with no external forces acting upon it.
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Angle of repose
The angle of repose, or critical angle of repose, of a granular material is the steepest angle of descent or dip relative to the horizontal plane on which the material can be piled without slumping.
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Atlantic Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, with an area of about.
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Atlantska plovidba
Atlantska plovidba d.d. is a Croatian shipping company.
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Ballast tank
A ballast tank is a compartment within a boat, ship or other floating structure that holds water, which is used as ballast to provide hydrostatic stability for a vessel, to reduce or control buoyancy, as in a submarine, to correct trim or list, to provide a more even load distribution along the hull to reduce structural hogging or sagging stresses, or to increase draft, as in a semi-submersible vessel or platform, or a SWATH, to improve seakeeping.
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Bauxite
Bauxite is a sedimentary rock with a relatively high aluminium content.
Beam (nautical)
The beam of a ship is its width at its widest point.
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Boatswain
A boatswain, bo's'n, bos'n, or bosun, also known as a deck boss, or a qualified member of the deck department, is the most senior rate of the deck department and is responsible for the components of a ship's hull.
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Bridge
A bridge is a structure built to span a physical obstacle (such as a body of water, valley, road, or railway) without blocking the path underneath.
Bulbous bow
A bulbous bow is a streamlined flaring or protruding bulb at the bow (or front) of a ship just below the waterline.
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Bulk cargo
Bulk cargo is commodity cargo that is transported unpackaged in large quantities.
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Bulldozer
A bulldozer or dozer (also called a crawler) is a large, motorized machine equipped with a metal blade to the front for pushing material: soil, sand, snow, rubble, or rock during construction work.
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Cape Horn
Cape Horn (Cabo de Hornos) is the southernmost headland of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago of southern Chile, and is located on the small Hornos Island.
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Cape of Good Hope
The Cape of Good Hope (Kaap die Goeie Hoop) is a rocky headland on the Atlantic coast of the Cape Peninsula in South Africa.
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Capesize
Capesize ships are the largest dry cargo ships with ball mark dimension: about 170,000 DWT (deadweight tonnage) capacity, 290 m long, 45 m beam (wide), 18m draught (under water depth). Bulk carrier and Capesize are ship types.
Carbon steel
Carbon steel is a steel with carbon content from about 0.05 up to 2.1 percent by weight.
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Cargo ship
A cargo ship or freighter is a merchant ship that carries cargo, goods, and materials from one port to another. Bulk carrier and cargo ship are ship types.
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Chartering (shipping)
Chartering is an activity within the shipping industry whereby a shipowner hires out the use of their vessel to a charterer.
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Chemical tanker
A chemical tanker is a type of tanker ship designed to transport chemicals in bulk. Bulk carrier and chemical tanker are ship types.
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Chief cook
A chief cook (often shortened to cook) is a seniormost unlicensed crewmember working in the steward's department of a merchant ship.
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Chief engineer
A chief engineer, commonly referred to as "Chief" or "ChEng", is the most senior licensed mariner (engine officer) of an engine department on a ship, typically a merchant ship, and holds overall leadership and the responsibility of that department.
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Chief mate
A chief mate (C/M) or chief officer, usually also synonymous with the first mate or first officer, is a licensed mariner and head of the deck department of a merchant ship.
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Chief steward
A chief steward is the senior crew member working in the steward's department of a ship.
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Chinamax
Chinamax is a standard of ship measurements that allow conforming ships to use various harbours when fully laden, the maximum size of such a ship being draft, beam and length overall.
Chittagong
Chittagong, officially Chattogram (Côṭṭôgrām, Chittagonian: চাটগাঁও Sāṭgão), is the second-largest city in Bangladesh.
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Coast
A coastalso called the coastline, shoreline, or seashoreis the land next to the sea or the line that forms the boundary between the land and the ocean or a lake.
Coastal trading vessel
Coastal trading vessels, also known as coasters or skoots, are shallow-hulled merchant ships used for transporting cargo along a coastline.
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Code of Safe Practice for Ships Carrying Timber Deck Cargoes
The Code of Safe Practice for Ships Carrying Timber Deck Cargoes (TDC Code) is the International Maritime Organization (IMO) standard for the safe carriage of timber deck cargoes.
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Collier (ship)
A collier is a bulk cargo ship designed or used to carry coal. Bulk carrier and collier (ship) are ship types.
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Concrete
Concrete is a composite material composed of aggregate bonded together with a fluid cement that cures to a solid over time.
Container ship
A container ship (also called boxship or spelled containership) is a cargo ship that carries all of its load in truck-size intermodal containers, in a technique called containerization. Bulk carrier and container ship are ship types.
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Conveyor belt
A conveyor belt is the carrying medium of a belt conveyor system (often shortened to belt conveyor).
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Conveyor system
A conveyor system is a common piece of mechanical handling equipment that moves materials from one location to another.
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Cornships Management and Agency
Cornships Management and Agency Inc. was a Turkish shipping company.
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Corrosion
Corrosion is a natural process that converts a refined metal into a more chemically stable oxide.
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Corrugated galvanised iron
Corrugated galvanised iron (CGI) or steel, colloquially corrugated iron (near universal), wriggly tin (taken from UK military slang), pailing (in Caribbean English), corrugated sheet metal (in North America), zinc (in Cyprus and Nigeria) or custom orb / corro sheet (Australia) is a building material composed of sheets of hot-dip galvanised mild steel, cold-rolled to produce a linear ridged pattern in them.
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Crane (machine)
A crane is a machine used to move materials both vertically and horizontally, utilizing a system of a boom, hoist, wire ropes or chains, and sheaves for lifting and relocating heavy objects within the swing of its boom.
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Croatia
Croatia (Hrvatska), officially the Republic of Croatia (Republika Hrvatska), is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe.
Crosshead
In mechanical engineering, a crosshead is a mechanical joint used as part of the slider-crank linkages of long reciprocating engines (either internal combustion or steam) and reciprocating compressors to eliminate sideways force on the piston.
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Daewoo
Daewoo (literally "great universe" and a portmanteau of "dae" meaning great, and the given name of founder and chairman Kim Woo-choong) also known as the Daewoo Group, was a major South Korean chaebol (type of conglomerate) and automobile manufacturer.
Dampskibsselskabet Torm
TORM based in Copenhagen, Denmark, is a shipping company that owns and operates product tankers.
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Deadweight tonnage
Deadweight tonnage (also known as deadweight; abbreviated to DWT, D.W.T., d.w.t., or dwt) or tons deadweight (DWT) is a measure of how much weight a ship can carry.
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Deck cadet
A deck cadet or trainee navigational deck officer or nautical apprentice is an apprentice who has to learn the basic duties of a deck officer on board a ship.
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Deck department
The deck department is an organisational team on board naval and merchant ships.
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Derrick
A derrick is a lifting device composed at minimum of one guyed mast, as in a gin pole, which may be articulated over a load by adjusting its guys.
Developed country
A developed country, or advanced country, is a sovereign state that has a high quality of life, developed economy, and advanced technological infrastructure relative to other less industrialized nations.
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Diesel engine
The diesel engine, named after Rudolf Diesel, is an internal combustion engine in which ignition of the fuel is caused by the elevated temperature of the air in the cylinder due to mechanical compression; thus, the diesel engine is called a compression-ignition engine (CI engine).
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Dockworker
A dockworker (also called a longshoreman, stevedore, or docker) is a waterfront manual laborer who loads and unloads ships.
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Double hull
A double hull is a ship hull design and construction method where the bottom and sides of the ship have two complete layers of watertight hull surface: one outer layer forming the normal hull of the ship, and a second inner hull which is some distance inboard, typically by a few feet, which forms a redundant barrier to seawater in case the outer hull is damaged and leaks.
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Draft (hull)
The draft or draught of a ship is a determined depth of the vessel below the waterline, measured vertically to its hull's lowest—its propellers, or keel, or other reference point.
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Dunkirk
Dunkirk (Dunkerque, Duunkerke, Duinkerke or Duinkerken) is a commune in the department of Nord in northern France.
Electric generator
In electricity generation, a generator is a device that converts motion-based power (potential and kinetic energy) or fuel-based power (chemical energy) into electric power for use in an external circuit.
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Engine department
An engine department or engineering department is an organizational unit aboard a ship that is responsible for the operation, maintenance, and repair of the propulsion systems and the support systems for crew, passengers, and cargo.
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Engine room
On a ship, the engine room (ER) is the compartment where the machinery for marine propulsion is located.
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Excavator
Excavators are heavy construction equipment primarily consisting of a boom, dipper (or stick), bucket and cab on a rotating platform known as the "house" - although the largest form ever, the dragline excavator, eliminated the dipper in favor of a line and winch.
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Fatigue (material)
In materials science, fatigue is the initiation and propagation of cracks in a material due to cyclic loading.
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Fednav
Fednav is a privately owned Canadian company in the maritime transport industry, involved in transporting over 30 million tonnes of bulk cargo and break bulk cargo worldwide.
Flag state
The flag state of a merchant vessel is the jurisdiction under whose laws the vessel is registered or licensed, and is deemed the nationality of the vessel.
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Floor plan
In architecture and building engineering, a floor plan is a technical drawing to scale, showing a view from above, of the relationships between rooms, spaces, traffic patterns, and other physical features at one level of a structure.
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Four-stroke engine
A four-stroke (also four-cycle) engine is an internal combustion (IC) engine in which the piston completes four separate strokes while turning the crankshaft.
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Fourth engineer
A fourth engineer or third assistant engineer is the most Junior engine officer in the engine department of a merchant vessel.
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Free surface effect
The free surface effect is a mechanism which can cause a watercraft to become unstable and capsize.
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Gantry crane
A gantry crane is a crane built atop a gantry, which is a structure used to straddle an object or workspace.
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Gearbulk
Gearbulk Holding Limited is an international shipping company headquartered in Pfäffikon, Switzerland.
Grain trade
The grain trade refers to the local and international trade in cereals such as wheat, barley, maize, and rice, and other food grains.
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Great Lakes
The Great Lakes (Grands Lacs), also called the Great Lakes of North America, are a series of large interconnected freshwater lakes in the east-central interior of North America that connect to the Atlantic Ocean via the Saint Lawrence River.
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Great Lakes Waterway
The Great Lakes Waterway (GLW) is a system of natural channels and artificial locks and canals which enable navigation between the North American Great Lakes.
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Guinea
Guinea, officially the Republic of Guinea (République de Guinée), is a coastal country in West Africa.
Gulf of Mexico
The Gulf of Mexico (Golfo de México) is an ocean basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, mostly surrounded by the North American continent.
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H. Vogemann
The H. Vogemann Group is a German shipping company.
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Hamburg
Hamburg (Hamborg), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg,.
Handymax
Handymax and Supramax are naval architecture terms for the larger bulk carriers in the Handysize class. Bulk carrier and Handymax are ship types.
Handysize
Handysize is a naval architecture term for smaller bulk carriers or oil tanker with deadweight of up to 50,000 tonnes, although there is no official definition in terms of exact tonnages. Bulk carrier and Handysize are ship types.
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Harvest
Harvesting is the process of collecting plants, animals, or fish (as well as fungi) as food, especially the process of gathering mature crops, and "the harvest" also refers to the collected crops.
HD Hyundai Heavy Industries
HD Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. (HHI) is the world's largest shipbuilding company and a major heavy equipment manufacturer.
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Hold (compartment)
View of the hold of a container ship A ship's hold or cargo hold is a space for carrying cargo in the ship's compartment.
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Hull (watercraft)
A hull is the watertight body of a ship, boat, submarine, or flying boat.
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International Association of Classification Societies
The International Association of Classification Societies (IACS) is a technically based non-governmental organization that currently consists of twelve member marine classification societies.
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International Code for the Safe Carriage of Grain in Bulk
The International Code for the Safe Carriage of Grain in Bulk (International Grain Code) is the International Maritime Organization (IMO) standard for the safe carriage of Grain cargoes on ships, primarily transported on Bulk carriers.
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International Maritime Organization
The International Maritime Organization (IMO; Organisation maritime internationale; Organización Marítima Internacional) is a specialised agency of the United Nations responsible for regulating maritime transport.
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International Maritime Solid Bulk Cargoes Code
The International Maritime Solid Bulk Cargoes Code (IMSBC Code) is the International Maritime Organization (IMO) standard for the safe carriage of bulk cargoes, primarily transported on bulk carriers.
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John Bowes (steamship)
John Bowes, built on the River Tyne in England in 1852, was one of the first steam colliers.
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Kamsar
Kamsar is a port city in Guinea, West Africa.
Labor intensity
Labor intensity is the relative proportion of labor (compared to capital) used in any given process.
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Lake freighter
Lake freighters, or lakers, are bulk carrier vessels operating on the Great Lakes of North America. Bulk carrier and lake freighter are bulk carriers and ship types.
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Length overall
Length overall (LOA, o/a, o.a. or oa) is the maximum length of a vessel's hull measured parallel to the waterline.
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Lifeboat (shipboard)
A lifeboat or liferaft is a small, rigid or inflatable boat carried for emergency evacuation in the event of a disaster aboard a ship.
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Lloyd's Register
Lloyd's Register Group Limited, trading as Lloyd's Register (LR), is a technical and professional services organisation and a maritime classification society, wholly owned by the Lloyd’s Register Foundation, a UK charity dedicated to research and education in science and engineering.
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LNG carrier
An LNG carrier is a tank ship designed for transporting liquefied natural gas (LNG). Bulk carrier and LNG carrier are ship types.
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Lock (water navigation)
A lock is a device used for raising and lowering boats, ships and other watercraft between stretches of water of different levels on river and canal waterways.
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Merchant ship
A merchant ship, merchant vessel, trading vessel, or merchantman is a watercraft that transports cargo or carries passengers for hire. Bulk carrier and merchant ship are ship types.
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Motorman (ship)
A motorman, also known as a qualified member of the engineering department (QMED), is the seniormost rate in the engine room of a ship.
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MS Berge Stahl
MS Berge Stahl was a bulk carrier.
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MS Ore Brasil
MS Ore Brasil, previously known as Vale Brasil, is a very large ore carrier owned by the Brazilian mining company Vale.
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MV Bright Field
was a bulk cargo ship that collided with the Riverwalk Marketplace shopping complex in New Orleans, Louisiana, on the afternoon of Saturday, December 14, 1996, after losing engine power.
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MV Flare
MV Flare (P3GL2) was a Cypriot-registered bulk carrier that sank with the loss of 21 lives in the Gulf of St. Lawrence on January 16, 1998.
MV Paul R. Tregurtha
MV Paul R. Tregurtha is a Great Lakes-based bulk carrier freighter.
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MV Sygna
MV Sygna was a Norwegian bulk carrier built by Austin & Pickersgill for J. Ludwig Mowinckels Rederi in 1967. Bulk carrier and MV Sygna are bulk carriers.
Naval architecture
Naval architecture, or naval engineering, is an engineering discipline incorporating elements of mechanical, electrical, electronic, software and safety engineering as applied to the engineering design process, shipbuilding, maintenance, and operation of marine vessels and structures.
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New Carissa
MV New Carissa was a freighter that ran aground and broke apart on a beach near Coos Bay, Oregon, United States, during a storm in February 1999.
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Newcastle upon Tyne
Newcastle upon Tyne, or simply Newcastle (RP), is a city and metropolitan borough in Tyne and Wear, England.
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Occupational Safety and Health Administration
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is a regulatory agency of the United States Department of Labor that originally had federal visitorial powers to inspect and examine workplaces.
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Oil tanker
An oil tanker, also known as a petroleum tanker, is a ship designed for the bulk transport of oil or its products. Bulk carrier and oil tanker are ship types.
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Oiler (occupation)
An oiler (also known as a "greaser") is a worker whose main job is to oil machinery.
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Ordinary seaman
An ordinary seaman (OS) is a member of the deck department of a ship.
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Ore
Ore is natural rock or sediment that contains one or more valuable minerals concentrated above background levels, typically containing metals, that can be mined, treated and sold at a profit.
Ore-bulk-oil carrier
An ore-bulk-oil carrier, also known as combination carrier or OBO, is a ship designed to be capable of carrying wet or dry cargoes. Bulk carrier and ore-bulk-oil carrier are ship types.
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Oshima Shipbuilding
Oshima Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. is a privately held Japanese shipbuilding company.
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Pallet
A pallet (also called a skid) is a flat transport structure, which supports goods in a stable fashion while being lifted by a forklift, a pallet jack, a front loader, a jacking device, or an erect crane.
Panama
Panama, officially the Republic of Panama, is a country in Latin America at the southern end of Central America, bordering South America.
Panama Canal locks
The Panama Canal locks (Esclusas del Canal de Panamá) are a lock system that lifts ships up to the main elevation of the Panama Canal and down again.
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Panamax
Panamax and New Panamax (or Neopanamax) are terms for the size limits for ships travelling through the Panama Canal. Bulk carrier and Panamax are ship types.
Passenger
A passenger is a person who travels in a vehicle, but does not bear any responsibility for the tasks required for that vehicle to arrive at its destination or otherwise operate the vehicle, and is not a steward.
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Port
A port is a maritime facility comprising one or more wharves or loading areas, where ships load and discharge cargo and passengers.
Port of Liverpool
The Port of Liverpool is the enclosed dock system that runs from Brunswick Dock in Liverpool to Seaforth Dock, Seaforth, on the east side of the River Mersey and the Birkenhead Docks between Birkenhead and Wallasey on the west side of the river.
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Port of Newcastle
The Port of Newcastle is a major seaport in the city of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.
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Portline
Portline Transportes Marítimos Internacionais, SA., often simply called Portline is a Portuguese shipping company.
Propeller
A propeller (colloquially often called a screw if on a ship or an airscrew if on an aircraft) is a device with a rotating hub and radiating blades that are set at a pitch to form a helical spiral which, when rotated, exerts linear thrust upon a working fluid such as water or air.
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Regional integration
Regional Integration is a process in which neighboring countries enter into an agreement in order to upgrade cooperation through common institutions and rules.
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Resonance
In physics, resonance refers to a wide class of phenomena that arise as a result of matching temporal or spatial periods of oscillatory objects.
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River
A river is a natural flowing freshwater stream, flowing on land or inside caves towards another body of water at a lower elevation, such as an ocean, lake, or another river.
Sailor
A sailor, seaman, mariner, or seafarer is a person who works aboard a watercraft as part of its crew, and may work in any one of a number of different fields that are related to the operation and maintenance of a ship.
Sanoyas Hishino Meisho
Sanoyas Hishino Meisho Corporation is a Japanese company that consists of four principal business groups and twelve affiliated companies.
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Scantling
Scantling is a measurement of prescribed size, dimensions, or cross sectional areas.
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Sea captain
A sea captain, ship's captain, captain, master, or shipmaster, is a high-grade licensed mariner who holds ultimate command and responsibility of a merchant vessel.
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Seafarer's professions and ranks
Seafaring is a tradition that encompasses a variety of professions and ranks.
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Seattle
Seattle is a seaport city on the West Coast of the United States.
Seawaymax
A Seawaymax vessel is one of the maximum size that can fit through the canal locks of the St. Lawrence Seaway, linking the inland Great Lakes of North America with the Atlantic Ocean. Bulk carrier and Seawaymax are ship types.
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Second engineer
A second engineer or first assistant engineer is a licensed member of the engineering department on a merchant vessel.
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Second mate
A second mate (2nd mate) or second officer (2/O) is a licensed member of the deck department of a merchant ship holding a Second Mates Certificate of Competence, by an authorised governing state of the International Maritime Organization (IMO).
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Self-discharger
SS Carl D. Bradley unloading hopper in 1958 A self-discharger (or self-unloader) is a ship that is able to discharge its cargo using its own gear.
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Seto Inland Sea
The, sometimes shortened to the Inland Sea, is the body of water separating Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu, three of the four main islands of Japan.
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Ship breaking
Ship breaking (also known as ship recycling, ship demolition, ship scrapping, ship dismantling, or ship cracking) is a type of ship disposal involving the breaking up of ships either as a source of parts, which can be sold for re-use, or for the extraction of raw materials, chiefly scrap.
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Ship classification society
A ship classification society or ship classification organisation is a non-governmental organization that establishes and maintains technical standards for the construction and operation of ships and offshore structures.
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Ship registration in Hong Kong
The Hong Kong Shipping Register was set up in 1990 under the Hong Kong Merchant Shipping (Registration) Ordinance, administered by the Marine Department (Hong Kong).
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Ship stability
Ship stability is an area of naval architecture and ship design that deals with how a ship behaves at sea, both in still water and in waves, whether intact or damaged.
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Ship-owner
A shipowner, ship owner or ship-owner is the owner of a ship.
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Shipbuilding
Shipbuilding is the construction of ships and other floating vessels.
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Shipwreck
A shipwreck is the wreckage of a ship that is located either beached on land or sunken to the bottom of a body of water.
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SOLAS Convention
The International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) is an international maritime treaty which sets out minimum safety standards in the construction, equipment and operation of merchant ships.
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South Korea
South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia.
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Spain
Spain, formally the Kingdom of Spain, is a country located in Southwestern Europe, with parts of its territory in the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and Africa.
Spontaneous combustion
Spontaneous combustion or spontaneous ignition is a type of combustion which occurs by self-heating (increase in temperature due to exothermic internal reactions), followed by thermal runaway (self heating which rapidly accelerates to high temperatures) and finally, autoignition.
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Springing
Springing as a nautical term refers to global (vertical) resonant hull girder vibrations induced by continuous wave loading.
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SS Edmund Fitzgerald
SS Edmund Fitzgerald was an American Great Lakes freighter that sank in Lake Superior during a storm on November 10, 1975, with the loss of the entire crew of 29 men.
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SS Lake Illawarra
SS Lake Illawarra was a handysize bulk carrier of 7,274 tons in the service of the Australian National Line.
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SS St. Marys Challenger
The SS St.
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St. Lawrence Seaway
The St.
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Steam engine
A steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid.
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Steamship
A steamship, often referred to as a steamer, is a type of steam-powered vessel, typically ocean-faring and seaworthy, that is propelled by one or more steam engines that typically move (turn) propellers or paddlewheels.
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Stephenson Clarke Shipping
Stephenson Clarke Shipping Limited, established in 1730 is Great Britain's oldest shipping company.
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Stern
The stern is the back or aft-most part of a ship or boat, technically defined as the area built up over the sternpost, extending upwards from the counter rail to the taffrail.
Steward's assistant
A steward's assistant (SA) is an unlicensed, entry-level crewmember in the Steward's department of a merchant ship.
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Stowage factor
In shipping, the stowage factor indicates how many cubic metres of space one tonne (or cubic feet of space one long ton) of a particular type of cargo occupies in a hold of a cargo ship.
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Strait of Malacca
The Strait of Malacca is a narrow stretch of water, long and from 65 to 250 km (40–155 mi) wide, between the Malay Peninsula to the northeast and the Indonesian island of Sumatra to the southwest, connecting the Andaman Sea (Indian Ocean) and the South China Sea (Pacific Ocean).
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Suez Canal
The Suez Canal (قَنَاةُ ٱلسُّوَيْسِ) is an artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt, connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea through the Isthmus of Suez and dividing Africa and Asia (and by extension, the Sinai Peninsula from the rest of Egypt).
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Superstructure
A superstructure is an upward extension of an existing structure above a baseline.
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Taiwan
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia.
Tanker (ship)
A tanker (or tank ship or tankship) is a ship designed to transport or store liquids or gases in bulk. Bulk carrier and tanker (ship) are ship types.
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Third engineer
A third engineer or second assistant engineer is a rank of engine officer who is part of the engine department on a ship.
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Third mate
A third mate (3/M) or third officer is a licensed member of the deck department of a merchant ship.
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Tramp trade
A boat or ship engaged in the tramp trade is one which does not have a fixed schedule, itinerary nor published ports of call, and trades on the spot market as opposed to freight liners.
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Transmission (mechanical device)
A transmission (also called a gearbox) is a mechanical device which uses a gear set—two or more gears working together—to change the speed, direction of rotation, or torque multiplication/reduction in a machine.
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Turkey
Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly in Anatolia in West Asia, with a smaller part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe.
Turnaround time
Turnaround time (TAT) is the amount of time taken to complete a process or fulfill a request.
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Two-stroke engine
A two-stroke (or two-stroke cycle) engine is a type of internal combustion engine that completes a power cycle with two strokes of the piston (one up and one down movement) in one revolution of the crankshaft.
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United States dollar
The United States dollar (symbol: $; currency code: USD; also abbreviated US$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies; referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, American dollar, or colloquially buck) is the official currency of the United States and several other countries.
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United States Maritime Administration
The United States Maritime Administration (MARAD) is an agency of the United States Department of Transportation.
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Variable-pitch propeller (marine)
In marine propulsion, a variable-pitch propeller is a type of propeller with blades that can be rotated around their long axis to change the blade pitch.
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Waterway
A waterway is any navigable body of water.
Weight distribution
Weight distribution is the apportioning of weight within a vehicle, especially cars, airplanes, and trains.
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Wind wave
In fluid dynamics, a wind wave, or wind-generated water wave, is a surface wave that occurs on the free surface of bodies of water as a result of the wind blowing over the water's surface.
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Wiper (occupation)
A wiper is a position responsible for both cleaning the engine spaces and machinery of a ship and assisting the ship's engineers as directed.
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Witherby Publishing Group
Witherby Publishing Group, formerly known as Witherby Seamanship, is a technical publisher of maritime, nautical and navigation training, reference and regulatory materials.
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World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
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1,000,000
1,000,000 (one million), or one thousand thousand, is the natural number following 999,999 and preceding 1,000,001.
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1973 oil crisis
In October 1973, the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC) announced that it was implementing a total oil embargo against the countries who had supported Israel at any point during the 1973 Yom Kippur War, which began after Egypt and Syria launched a large-scale surprise attack in an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to recover the territories that they had lost to Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War.
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1979 oil crisis
A drop in oil production in the wake of the Iranian Revolution led to an energy crisis in 1979.
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See also
1852 introductions
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulk_carrier
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