Browse the glossary using this index

Special | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z | ALL

Page:  1  2  3  4  5  (Next)
  ALL

A

A vessel's empty weight

When a ship is empty of cargo, fuel, lubricating oil, water ballast, fresh or processed water stored in tanks, purchasable stores, passengers, crew, and their personal effects, its water capacity is expressed in tons.

Apartments for living

public corridors, bathrooms, cabins, work spaces, hospitals, cinemas, relaxation and hobby rooms, hairdressers, canteens without cooking equipment, and other similar facilities.

Arrangement for liquid fuel

equipment preparing liquid fuel for supply to a boiler fired with such fuel, or equipment preparing heated liquid fuel for supply to an internal combustion engine; it includes all oil pressure pumps, filters and heaters that use oil with a pressure greater than 0.18 N/mm2.

Atrium

These are public areas located in any one primary vertical section that covers three or more open decks.

B

Bulker tanker

It is a ship built to carry both oil cargo in cargo tanks and solid cargo in holds.

Bulkhead deck

The transverse watertight bulkheads can only reach this deck, which is the highest.

C

Cargo area

It is the part of the ship where the cargo holds, cargo tanks, waste tanks, and cargo pump rooms are installed, as well as pumping stations, cofferdams, ballast tanks adjacent to the cargo tanks and voids, and deck areas that entirely cover the part of the ship where the cargo tanks are situated.

Cargo ship

indicates a vessel that meets the definition in Chapter I, Regulation 2. (g).

Cargo spaces

These are cargo rooms, oil cargo tanks, tanks for other liquid cargoes, and ventilation lines that lead to these rooms.

Carrier of gas

denotes a cargo ship built or retrofitted for the carriage of any liquefied gas or other product specified in Chapter 19 of the International Gas Carrier Code in its cargo tanks (as defined in Chapter VII, Regulation 11, Clause 1).


Page:  1  2  3  4  5  (Next)
  ALL