Grain capacity
Group of Ten
Group of Twenty-Four
Group of Five
Group of seven: the finance ministers and central bankers of seven leading industrial nations
Group of Seventy-Seven
General License - COCOM
General License - Destination
Gibraltar - Hamburg range
General License - Non-Naval Reserve
General License - Temporary Export
General Average
General Average
Gross arrived damaged value
Grain & Feed Trade Assoc
Gross arrived sound value
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
Great Britain
Government Form (chartering)
Germanischer Lloyd
Greenwich Mean Time
Gross net earned premium income
Gross original premium
Good safety
Grain / bale capacity
General Average
General Arrangement Plan
Gallon
A group of stevedores, usually four to five members, with a supervisor assigned to a hold or portion of the vessel being loaded or unloaded.
A narrow portable platform used as a passage, by persons entering or leaving a vessel moored alongside a pier or quay.
Specially designed for the transport of condensed (liquefied) gases. The most important gases are: ammonia, ethylene, LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas), which consists mainly of methane, and is cooled to a temperature of minus 163 degrees Celcius, and LPG (Liquefied Petroleum Gas) such as butane and propane.
Good And Safe (Port) Both ENDs
Abbreviation for General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. A multilateral treaty to help reduce trade barriers between the signatory countries and to promote trade through tariff concessions. The World Trade Organization (WTO) superseded GATT in 1994.
Gross ballast bonus
Abbreviation for Government Bill of Lading.
Great circle
General Conditions
Good Day
GDynia/GDansk
Good Day
Abbreviation for General Department Store Merchandise. A classification of commodities that includes goods generally shipped by mass-merchandise companies. This commodity structure occurs only in service contracts.
Good Day
General cargo
General Conditions
Gencon'94 charter party
A non-bulk oil cargo composed of miscellaneous goods.
Any of various export licenses covering export commodities for which validated export licenses are not required.
A government contract warehouse for the storage of cargoes left unclaimed for a designated number of days after availability. Unclaimed cargoes may later be auctioned publicly.
GENeralS or general cargo
Geographical
In geographical rotation
In geographical rotation
Ports in order of calling
Geographical Rotation
Gibraltar
Germanischer LLoyd
Gearless
Gearless
Global Maritime Distress and Safety System
Greenwich mean time
Grain capacity
General Conditions
Gross National Product: GDP plus the net income accruing from foreign sources.
German North Sea
Gas oil
Gulf of Mexico
Gross operating profit
Cargo owned by or subsidized by the Federal Government.
General purpose
Global Positioning System
Grain capacity
Gross Weight.
Grain / bale capacity
Cubic capacity in grain
Geared
Ports in the lakes of Canada and/or USA popular for grain shipments. In Canada: Port Arthur and Fort William in Lake Superior; Hamilton, Kingston, Toronto and Prescott in Lake Ontario. In USA: Chicago, Milwaukee in Lake Michigan; Duluth and Superior in Lake Superior and Toledo in Lake Erie.
Cargo ship developed to carry raw materials and manufactured goods on the Great Lakes. Most carry bulk cargoes of grain, iron ore, or coal.
Abbreviation for General Rate Increase. Used to describe an across-the-board tariff rate increase implemented by conference members and applied to base rates
Gross tonnage is the basis on which manning rules and safety regulations are applied, and registration fees are reckoned. Port fees are also often reckoned on the basis of GT and NT. GT and NT are defined according to formulas which take account, among other things, of the volume of the vessel's enclosed spaces (GT) and the volume of its holds (NT).
Freight money collected or to be collected without calculating the expenses relating to the running cost of the ship for the voyage undertaken.
A common measurement of the internal volume of a ship with certain spaces excluded. One ton equals 100 cubic feet; the total of all the enclosed spaces within a ship expressed in tons each of which is equivalent to 100 cubic feet.
Deliberate contact by a ship with the bottom while she is moored or anchored as a result of the water level dropping.
Geographic Response Plan (generally appended to ACPs)
Geographic Response Strategies (generally appended to ACPs/GRPs)
Gross register tonnage
Good Safe Berth
Generalized System of Preferences
Good safe port berth
Ports of Genoa, Savona, Spezia or Leghorn
Ports of Genoa, Savona, Spezia, Leghorn, Naples, Civetta or Vecchia
Gross Standard Volume
Gross tonnage
General License - Technical Data Publicly Available
General License - Technical Data Restricted by Written, Assurance
General License - Technical Data Restricted without, Written Assurance
Guarantee
Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Technische Zusammenarbeit
Abbreviation for Gross Vehicle Weight. The combined total weight of a vehicle and its container, inclusive of prime mover.
The Organization (French: Organisation pour la Mise en Valeur du Fleuve Gambie, OMVG) promotes the construction of dams for hydroelectric and irrigation purposes. The organization was established in June 1978; headquarters are in Dakar, Senegal. Members include: the Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, and Senegal.
A specialised tanker built to comply with Marpol 73/78 Annex 1 and the appropriate IMO Code for Vessels Carrying Liquefied Gases in bulk.
Industry-related: A point at which freight moving from one territory to another is interchanged between transportation lines.
A barge without means of independent propulsion which carries break bulk cargoes, may be single or multi decked.
An self propelled barge with a single deck for the carriage of various types of dry cargo
Breakbulk freighters, car carriers, cattle carriers, pallet carriers and timber carriers.
A single or multi deck cargo vessel for the carriage of various types of dry cargo. Single deck vessels will typically have box shaped holds. Cargo is loaded and unloaded through weather deck hatches
A general cargo ship with the additional capability to be loaded and unloaded by ro-ro access to a limited portion of the cargo space
A vessel designed for the transportation of Break Bulk Cargoes, May Be Single Or Multi Decked. Not designed for operation in open sea.
A general cargo ship with accommodation for the carriage of more than 12 passengers
A vessel designed for the transportation of dry cargo and with capacity for carriage of passengers. Not designed for operation in open sea
A general cargo ship fitted with tanks for the additional carriage of liquid cargo
A general cargo ship with reversible hatch covers; one side is flush and the other is fitted with baffles for use with liquid cargoes. Containers can be carried on the hatch covers in dry cargo mode
When U.S. Customs orders shipments without entries to be kept in their custody in a bonded warehouse.
A portable generator which can be attached to a refrigerated container to power the refrigeration unit during transit.
A tanker for the bulk carriage of glue
In the Far East, a warehouse where goods are stored and delivered.
The front rails of the chassis that raise above the plane of the chassis and engage in the tunnel of a container leading to the connection to tractor.
A bill of lading issued by the U.S. government.
A vessel equipped to obtain material from the sea bed by use of a grab or backhoe. The material may be carried on board, transferred to other vessels, pumped ashore or deposited elsewhere using a spray
A non propelled dredger pontoon fitted with a system of grabs
A non propelled pontoon used for the purpose of operating a grain elevator
Terms under which the carrier has to arrange and pay for cargo handling
Applies to vessels, not to cargo, (0.2+0.02 log10V) where V is the volume in cubic meters of all enclosed spaces on the vessel.
Entire weight of goods, packaging and freight car or container, ready for shipment. Generally, 80,000 pounds maximum container, cargo and tractor for highway transport.
A consolidation service, putting small shipments into containers for shipment
Guaranteed
The GCC, established in May 1981, seeks to strengthen cooperation (in areas such as agriculture, industry, investment, security, and trade) among its six members: Bahrain, Kuwait, Quatar, Oman, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. The GCC, created in response to the outbreach of the Iran-Iraq war, established the Gulf Standards Organization in November 1982 and the Gulf Investment Corporation in 1984. The presidency of the GCC rotates yearly among members. Council headquarters are in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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