Charter Parties I –
Course 8450
Please become thoroughly familiar with each of the terms and acronyms listed below. We will discuss many
(but not all) of them in class. You should also consult a good shipping and / or chartering dictionary.
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About (for e.g. “about 6 months”)
About (for e.g. “about 25,000 metric tons of grain”)
A.B.S.
Accept / Except (A/E)
Address commission
Air draft
All told
Always afloat
APS
ARA
A.S.B.A.
A.S.B.A. Code of Ethics
ASBATIME 1981
ATDNSHINC
Average accidents to vessel or cargo
Back to back charter
Backtrading
Bale cubic
Ballast bonus
Baltic Exchange
Baltime
Barecon
Barrel
Beaufort Scale
Beam
Bill of lading (straight, order, clean, dirty)
BIMCO
Break bulk
Broker’s authority
Broker’s breach of warranty of authority
Broker’s channels
Bunkers on delivery
Bunkers on redelivery
B.V.
Cash (Masters) advances
C and F sale
Charterers market
CHOPT
Classification Society
Clause Paramount
COGSA
Commission (brokerage)
Competitive broker
Constants
Conwartime Clauses
Cubic cargo
Deadweight
Default of men
Deficiency of men
Disponent owner
Displacement
DLOSP
DOP
Down to marks
Double bottoms
Draft
Drydocking
Due despatch
DWAT
DWCC
Ejusdem generis
E and O Insurance
Fiduciary
F D and D Insurance
Firm offer
Firm order
First class charterer
First open water
Fixture
Flag of convenience
FOB sale
FONASBA
Freeboard
Freight collect B/L
Full reach and burden
Fumigations
FWAD
FWDD
General average
GMT
Grab discharge
Grace period (anti technicality) clause
Grain cubic
Gross registered tonnage
Grounding
Hague Rules (Hague Visby Rules)
Head owner
Hire
Hire “in advance”
Hull and machinery insurance
HSS
IGS
IFO
ILOHC
IMO
IWL
Inherent vice
Interclub Agreement
ITF
ITF clause
Jason Clause
Knot
Laycan
Letter of Indemnity (LOI)
Light displacement
LOA
LBP
Long tom
Maritime lien
Mate’s receipt
MDO
MGO
Metric ton
Min / max
Mutual exceptions clause
NAABSA
Nautical mile
Net registered tonnage
NYPE 46
NYPE 93
OBO
Off hire
Off hire survey
On hire survey
“Our Word - Our Bond’
Owners market
Overlap
Panama Canal Tonnage
Partial final award (arbitration)
Pilotages
Plimsoll Mark
Port (husbanding) agent
Prepaid freight B/L
Prior hire
Prohibition of Lien Clause
Prompt Ship
Protective Clauses
P and I Club
P and I Club letter of undertaking
Protective Agents
Principal / agent relationship
Recap (telex, fax or email)
Redelivery
Redelivery bonus
Redelivery in like good order
Registered owner
Redelivery notice
Requisition
R.I.N.A
Safe port / berth
Seaworthiness
Self-trimming bulker
Short ton
S.M.A.
S and P broker
Stowage factor
Spot vessel
Stability
strapping
SSW
Stem
Stevedore standby time
Supercargo
Sub - charter
Subject details
Subject open (or unfixed)
Subject stem
Subject receivers
Suez Canal Tonnage
Summer loadline zone
SWAD
Tacking
tanktop
TBN
TEU
TIP
TPI
TTL
Tramp vessel
Tween deck
Undisclosed principal
UKAH
USAC
USNH
Ullage
Underlap
VLCC
Whatsoever
Wing tanks
Winter North Atlantic Zone
Withdrawal
WOG
WWR
York Antwerp Rules