Maritime Glossary
Source-cited definitions for shipping, engineering, navigation, and regulatory terminology. Confidence-scored and verified against primary IMO, IHO, and industry sources.
- COLREGSInternational Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea · IRPCS · Rules of the Road
- The international rules prescribing how vessels must behave to avoid collisions at sea.
- navigationsafetyregulationhigh confidence
- Carbon Intensity IndicatorCII
- An IMO operational rating that measures a ship's CO₂ efficiency and assigns an annual grade from A (best) to E.
- decarbonizationregulationhigh confidence
- Charter PartyC/P
- A contract between a shipowner and a charterer for the hire of a vessel or cargo space.
- commerciallegalcharteringhigh confidence
- Classification Societyclass society
- A non-governmental organisation that establishes and maintains technical standards for ship design, construction, and maintenance.
- regulationsafetyorganizationshigh confidence
- Container Shipcontainership · box ship
- A cargo vessel designed to carry intermodal shipping containers in standardised cell guides.
- vessel-typescargohigh confidence