Maritime Glossary
Source-cited definitions for shipping, engineering, navigation, and regulatory terminology. Confidence-scored and verified against primary IMO, IHO, and industry sources.
- Tankeroil tanker · product tanker · chemical tanker
- A bulk-liquid cargo ship carrying oil, chemicals, liquefied gas, or other liquid commodities in integral tanks.
- vessel-typescargohigh confidence
- Time CharterT/C
- A charter under which the owner provides a crewed, maintained vessel for a period at a daily hire rate.
- commercialcharteringhigh confidence
- Trimlongitudinal trim
- The difference between a vessel's aft draft and forward draft.
- vessel-measurementsseamanshipengineeringhigh confidence
- Twenty-Foot Equivalent UnitTEU
- The standard unit of container volume in shipping, based on a 20-foot ISO container.
- cargovessel-measurementscommercialhigh confidence