Ocean shipping

Ocean shipping

Relating to the transportation of goods across an ocean or sea.

Industry: Maritime; Transportation

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astern

Maritime; Ocean shipping

A backward direction in the line of a vessel's fore and aft line; behind. If a vessel moves backwards it is said to move astern; opposite to ahead.

at sea

Maritime; Ocean shipping

In marine insurance this phrase applies to a ship which is free from its moorings and ready to sail.

Carriage of Goods by Sea Act

Maritime; Ocean shipping

A law enacted in 1936 covering the transportation of merchandise by sea to or from ports of the united states and in foreign trades.

Any person who, through a contract of carriage, undertakes to perform or procure the performance of carriage by rail, road, sea, air, inland waterway, or by a combination of modes. (see also common ...

bulk

Maritime; Ocean shipping

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 ...

Cost, insurance and freight (C.I.F.)

Maritime; Ocean shipping

Export term in which the price quoted by the exporter includes the costs of ocean transportation to the port of destination and insurance coverage.

buoy

Maritime; Ocean shipping

A floating object employed as an aid to mariners to mark the navigable limits of channels, their fairways, sunken dangers, isolated rocks, telegraph cables, and the like; floating devices fixed in ...