MARITIME ABBREVIATIONS
AA: Always afloat
AAAA: Always accessible always afloat
ARA: Amsterdam-Rotterdam-Antwerp range
ABT: About
ADCOM/ADDCOM: Address Commission
AFSPS: Arrival First Sea Pilot Station
AG: Arabian Gulf (= Persian Gulf)
AGW: All going well
AHL: Australian hold ladders
ANTHAM: Antwerp-Hamburg range
APS: Arrival pilot station
ARAG: Amsterdam-Rotterdam-Antwerp-Ghent range
ATDNSHINC: Any time day and night, Sundays and holidays Included
ATUTC: Actual times used to count
BC: Bulk carrier
BL: Bill of lading
BAF: Bunker adjustment factor
BBB: Before breaking bulk. (opening the hatch covers for discharging)
BDI: Baltic Dry Index
BENDS: Both ends (Both ports, loading and discharging ends)
BIMCO: The Baltic and International Maritime Council
BL: Bale
BM: Beam
B/N: Booking note
BOB: Bunker on board
Boffer: Best offer
BROB: Bunkers remaining on board
BSS: Basis
BT: Berth terms
BWAD: Brackish water arrival draft
C/P: Charter Party
CAF: Currency adjustment factor
CBFT: Cubic feet
CBM: Cubic meters
CFR: Cost and freight
CHOPT: Charterers option
CHTRS: Charterers
CIF: Cost, insurance and freight
CIP: Carriage and insurance paid to
Clean (CPP): Refined petroleum products
CO2: Carbon dioxide
COA: Contract of Affreightment
COB: Closing of business / Clean on Board
COD: Cash on delivery
COGSA: Carriage of goods by Sea act
CONS: Consumption
COP: Custom of port
CP (or C/P): Charter party
CPT: Carriage paid to
CQD: Customary quick dispatch
CR: Crane
CST: Centistoke
D/A: Disbursement account
DAF: Delivered at frontier
DAPS: Days all purposes (Total days for loading & discharging)
DDP: Delivered duty paid
DDU: Delivered duty unpaid
DEM: Demurrage
DESP: Dispatch
DHDATSBE: Dispatch half demurrage on all time saved both ends
DHDWTSBE: Dispatch half demurrage on working time saved both ends
DISCH: Discharge
DK: Deck
DLOSP: Dropping last outwards sea pilot
DNRCAOSLONL: Discountless and non-returnable cargo and/or ship lost or not lost
DO: Diesel Oil
DOC: Document of Compliance – refers to the ISM Code. Means a document issued to a
Company which complies with the requirements of the ISM Code.
DOLSP: Dropping off last sea pilot
DOP: Dropping outward pilot
DPA: Designated Person Ashore
DRC: Document Review Committee
DRK: Derrick, crane, winch
DWAT: Deadweight all told
DWAT (or DWT): Deadweight
DWCC: Deadweight cargo capacity
DPS: Dynamic positioning system
EC: East Coast
EIU: Even if used
ELVENT: Electric ventilation
ETA: Estimated time of arrival
ETC: Estimated time of completion
ETD: Estimated time of departure
ETS: Estimated time of sailing
EXW: Ex. works
FAC: Fast as can
FAS: Free alongside ship
FCA: Free carrier
FDD: Freight Deadfreight Demurrage (Brokerage commission)
FDD: Freight Demurrage Defence (Insurance)
FDEDANRVAOCLONL: Freight deemed earned, discountless and non-refundable, vessel
and/or cargo lost or not lost
FD: Free dispatch
FEU: Forty Foot Equivalent Units
FHEX: Fridays and holidays excepted
FHINC: Fridays and holidays included
FILO: Free in/liner out
FIO: Free in/out
FIOS: Free in/out stowed
FIOST: Free in/out, stowed and trimmed
FIOT: Free in/out and trimmed
FLT: Full liner terms
FO: Fuel oil
FO: Free out
FOB: Free on board
FOC: Flag of convenience
FOR: Free on rail
FOT: Free on truck
FOW: First open water
FPSO: Floating production, storage and offloading vessel
Free EXINS: Free of any extra Insurance
FRT: Freight
FWAD: Fresh water arrival draft
FWDD: Fresh water departure draft
FYG: For your guidance
FYI: For your information
GA plan: General arrangement plan
GEOROT: Geographical rotation
GLS (GLESS): Gearless
GM: General manager
GR: Grain
GO: Gas oil
GP: Grain capacity
GRD: Geared
GRT: Gross registered tonnage
GSB: Good, safe berth
GSP: Good, safe port
GTEE: Guarantee
H&M: Hull and machinery insurance
HA: Hatch
HDLTSBENDS: Half dispatch laytime saved both ends
HDWTS: Half dispatch working (or weather) time saved
HFO: Heavy fuel oil
HMS: Heavy metal scraps
HO: Hold
HW: High water
ICT: Information communication technology
ICW: Intercoastal waterway
ILO: International Labour Organization
IMDG: International Maritime Dangerous Goods code
IMO: International Maritime Organisation
INMARSAT: International Maritime Satellite System
ISM Code: International Safety Management Code
ISMA: International Ship Managers Association
ISPS: International Ship and Port Facility Security Code
ITF: International Transport Workers’ Federation
IU: If used
IUHTAUTC: If used, half time actually used to count
IWL: Institute Warranty Limits
L/C: Letter of credit
LAT: Latitude
LOA: Length overall
LOF: Lloyds Open Form
LOI: Letter of indemnity
LOLO: Lift on – lift off
LOW: Last open water
LPG: Liquefied petroleum gas
LS (or LUMPS): Lump sum freight
LSD: Lashed secured dunnaged
LSFO: Low sulphur fuel oil
LT: Liner terms
LT: Long ton = 1 016.05 kilogram (2 240 lbs)
LTHH: Liner terms hook/hook
LW: Low water
L/CAN: Laycan (Layday cancelling date)
M/V: Motor vessel / merchant vessel
MDO (DO): Marine diesel oil
MDO / MGO: Marine diesel oil/marine gas oil
MED: Mediterranean Sea
MIN/MAX: Minimum/Maximum
MOA: Memorandum of agreement
MOLCHOPT: More or less charterers option
MOLOO: More or less owners option
MT: Metric ton
NAABSA: Not always afloat but safely aground
NCB: National Cargo Bureau
NOx: Nitrogen oxides
NM: Nautical mile
NOR: Notice of readiness
NRT: Net register tonnage
NYPE: New York Produce Exchange
OBO: Ore/bulk/oil vessel
OO: Owners option
OWS: Owners
P&I: Protection and indemnity Insurance
PC: Period of charter
PCC: Pure car carrier
PCGO: Part cargo
PCT: Percent
PCTC: Pure car and truck carrier
PDA: Pro forma disbursement account
PDPR: Per day or pro rata
PG: Persian Gulf
PHPD: Per hatch per day
PUS: Passed us
PWWD: Per weather working day
QA: Quality assurance
RECAP: Recapitulation of the terms agreed
ROB: Remaining on board
RT: Revenue Ton
RT43: Measure for capacity by a car which is 4.125 m long, 1.550 m wide and 1.420 m high
SAR: Search and Rescue
SB: Safe berth
SBT: Segregated ballast tanks
SD (or SID): Single decker
SF: Stowage factor
SHEX: Sundays and holidays excluded
SHINC: Sundays and holidays included
SMC: Safety management certificate
SOC: Shipper owned container
SOF: Statement of facts
SOPEP: Shipboard Oil Pollution Emergency Plan
SP: Safe port
SSHEX: Saturdays, Sundays, holidays excluded
SSHINC (or SATSHINC): Saturdays, Sundays, holidays included
STCW: Standards of Training, Certificates and Watchkeeping
STBC: Self-Trimming Bulk Carrier
SUB: Subject to
SOx: Sulphur oxides
SWAD: Salt water arrival draft
SWDD: Salt water departure draft
T/C: Time charter
TBN: To be nominated
TC: Time charter
TCP: Time charter party
TEU: Twenty Feet equivalent unit
TTL: Total
TW: Tween decker
UER: Undesired event report
ULCC: Ultra Large Crude Carrier
USC: Unless sooner commenced
UTC: GMT
UU: Unless used
UUIUATUTC: Unless used. If used actual time used to count
VCM: vessel contingency manual
VLCC: Very Large Crude Carrier
VLOC: Very Large Ore Carrier
WS: Worldscale
WCCON: Whether customs cleared or not
WIBON: Whether in berth or not
WIFPON: Whether in free pratique or not
WIPON: Whether in port or not
WLTOHC: Water line-to-hatch coaming
WOG: Without guarantee
WP: Weather permitting
WRIC: Wire rods in coils
WWD: Weather working day
WWWW: WIBON, WCCON, WIFPON, WIPON
YAR: York-Antwerp Rules
