The single point mooring system. A catenary anchor leg mooring system consists of a large buoy anchored by catenary mooring lines.

The curve produced by a uniform, flexible wire or chain when suspended by its ends. Anchor chains from a buoy or a towing wire between vessels will take this shape.

Term used in the offshore industry for a major hydrocarbon release that results from uncontrolled developments and that may lead to serious danger to personnel.

The world’s fastest ferry FRANCISCO was delivered in 2013 to the Argentinean owner Buquebus from the Australian shipbuilder Incat Tasmania Pty Ltd.

The maximum permissible pressure in cargo hoses.

A vessel with two hulls and a deck structure between them.

Case of death or serious injury to a person in an accident or shipping disaster, also used about a distressed vessel.

Iron with the carbon content of 1.8 to 4.5%. White cast iron is hard and brittle. Grey cast iron is softer, machinable and less brittle.

A ro-ro vessel designed to transport cassettes. The cassettes are put onto the vessel using terminal tractors with lift-trailers.

A wheelless steel platform used to transport paper reels on ro-ro forest products. Terminal tractors use lift-trailers to handle it.

In this system, LNG is heated by propane in a closed loop and the propane is heated by seawater.

The application of protective devices in which the device nearest to the source of power has short circuit ratings equal to or in excess of the maximum prospective short circuit current...

This term, usually refers to a steamship company, but can also refer to vessel.

Pipe schedules are designations of pipe wall thicknesses as given in American National Standard Institute, ANSI B36.10.

Butt-welded joints, socket-welded joints, slip-on welded sleeve joints, flanged joints, threaded joints, expansion joints.

Components such as sleeves, elbows, tees, bends, flanges, etc., which are used to join pipe sections.

The pins or bolts that hinge the rudder to the gudgeons on the sternpost or rudderpost.

Local rusting at pinholes or holidays.

Tiny holes through the entire paint film down to the substrate formed during application and drying.

The activity carried out by a pilot assisting the master of a ship in navigation while entering or leaving a port.