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bagged cargo
Maritime; Ocean shipping
Various kinds of commodities usually packed in sacks or in bags, such as sugar, cement, milk powder, onion, grain, flour, etc.
ballast
Maritime; Ocean shipping
Heavy substances loaded by a vessel to improve stability, trimming, sea keeping and to increase the immersion at the propeller. Sea water ballast is commonly' loaded in most ...
ballast movement
Maritime; Ocean shipping
A voyage or voyage leg made without any paying cargo in a vessel's tanks. To maintain proper stability, trim, or draft, seawater is usually carried during such movements.
ballast tank
Maritime; Ocean shipping
Compartments at the bottom of a ship or on the sides which are filled with liquids for stability and to make the ship seaworthy. Any shipboard tank or compartment on a tanker ...
bareboat charter
Maritime; Ocean shipping
(1) a charter in which the bare ship is chartered without crew; the charterer, for a stipulated sum taking over the vessel for a stated period of time, with a minimum of ...
anti-trust exemption
Maritime; Ocean shipping
The immunity from prosecution under the sherman act, granted to steamship companies in 1916, in recognition of the special services and value american flag merchant vessels ...
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