And; North
North Continent
National Association of Securities Dealers and Investment Managers
Noth Atlantic Treaty Organization
No claim for accident reported
National Committee on International Trade Documentation
No commercial value
Not east of
National Economic Development Council
Not elsewhere mentioned.
Not elsewhere specified.
Nominal horse-power
No known or reported loss
(Lloyd's) Underwriters Non-Marine Association
National Motor Freight Classification.
Not north of
Notice of cancellation
Net operating profit
North Pacific Coast Freight Bureau.
Non vessel operating common carrier
New York Standard Time
Not applicable / Not acceptable / Not available
New building
New charter, New crop
Not east of
Not north of
Not south of
Not west of
No advice, No account, Not applicable
No funds
No mark
New terms (grain trade)
North Atlantic; North America; nearest approach
Not always Afloat
Not Always Afloat but Safely Aground
National Advisory Council on International Monetary and, Financial Policies
A free trade agreement comprising the U.S.A., Canada, and Mexico.
Naphta
A private organization having representatives throughout the main harbors in the U.S. It is empowered to inspect cargoes of a hazardous nature and issue certificates which are automatically approved by the Coast Guard.
A flag carrier owned or controlled by the state.
New building
National Cargo Bureau
National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan
Non-conformance report (ISM)
Norwegian Continental Shelf
North Coast South America
No commercial value
National Defense Executive Reserve
No Deadfreight For Charterers Account Provided Minimum Quantity Supplied
The opposite to Spring Tides
Abbreviation for Not Elsewhere Classified.
Negotiations
Not East of but including Greece
Not east of but including Greece and excluding Albania, Yoguslavia and former Yoguslavia
Not east of but including Greece and excluding Yoguslavia and former Yoguslavia and Albania
Shipments consisting entirely of units of a single commodity, such as cars, lumber, or scrap metal.
Not elsewhere provided
Abbreviation for Not Elsewhere Specified.
When three or more different sizes of an article are placed within each other so that each article will not project above the next lower article by more than 1/4 inch.
Implies that cargo is presented stacked in the contour of similarly shaped cargo, it may be likened to a stack of plates
The number of tons of cargo which a vessel can carry when loaded in salt water to her summer freeboard marks. Also called cargo carrying capacity, cargo deadweight, and useful deadweight.
Free of charters' commission.
Equals gross tonnage minus deductions for space occupied by crew accommodations, machinery, navigation equipment, and bunkers. It represents space available for cargo (and passengers). Canal tolls are based on net (registered) tonnage.
The weight of the goods alone without any immediate wrappings; e.g., the weight of the contents of a tin can without the weight of the can.
North East of West Coast Italy
Nigeria
No heat crude
Nominal horse power
Norwegian International Ship Registry
New Jason clause in C/P
Nippon Kaiji Kyokai
Nippon Kaiji Kyokai
Nautical mile
Norwegian Maritime Directorate
National Motor Freight Classification.
Nautical miles per day
Not north of George Washington Bridge (i.e. New York)
Not North Of George Washington Bridge
Number
A sum of money normally paid by a charter airline to a scheduled airline in order that it waives its right of objection to its government, thus allowing a charter to take place. The amount is usually a fixed percentage of the gross cost of a charter. Tantamount to a bribe, this is common practice in the Middle East and Africa.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Not On Banned List
Not Otherwise Enumerated.
Not Otherwise Herein Provided.
Abbreviation for Not Otherwise Indexed.
Abbreviation for Not Otherwise Indexed By Name.
Norwegian controlled foreign company in lowtax country
New Orleans
Nominations
Non Reversible Laytime
A shipping line which operates on a route served by a liner conference but which is not a member of that conference.
then saved days will not be added to discharge time allowed.
North Pacific (Ports)
Notice of Readiness, or Not Otherwise Rated.
Notice of Readiness tendered and accepted
Norwegian classification society.
Notice of Readiness tendered
Abbreviation for Not Otherwise Specified.
Nitro Phosphatic Kompound
Northern Range of Ports (in US)
National Response Centre
Net registered tons. This tonnage is frequently shown on ship registration papers; it represents the volumetric area available for cargo at 100 cubic feet = 1 ton. It often is used by port and canal authorities as a basis for charges.
No sparring
New South Wales (Australia)
Net Tons.
Not to count
Not to count, even if used
Not to count, unless used
Navigation and Vessel Inspection Circular (USCG publication)
Non-vessel-operating common carrier, a ships agent, conducts business for the ship but does not operate the vessel.
Non-vessel owing common carrier
North West Europe
New York
New York
New York Produce Exchange Charter Party== Time Charter Form==
The NAC is responsbile for coordinating U.S. participation in the international financial institutions and the policies and practices of agencies of the U.S. government that make, or participate in making, foreign loans or that engage in foreign financial, exchange, or monetary transactions. With regard to international financial institutions, the Council seeks to ensure that their operations are conducted in a manner consistent with U.S. policies and objectives and with lending and other foriegn financial activities of U.S. government agencies. The Council formulates and reviews policies and programs for use by the U.S. representatives to these institutions and advises the Secretary of the Treasury on:- Policies and selected proposed transactions of the institutions; - Proposed actions by these institutions requiring U.S. approval on such subjects as the flotation of securities, increases in quotas and subscriptions, and changes in their articles of agreement; and - Problems relating to the administration and management of the international finnancial institutions. NAC membership includes: the Departments of the Treasury (as chair), State, and Commerce, the U.S. Trade Representative, the Federal Reserve System, the Export-Import Bank, and the International Development Cooperation Agency
In its international role, the NAL cooperates in database production, compilation of world lists of journals, publication exchange, cooperative indexing, and intern training. The NAL serves as the U.S. center for the international agricultural information system. The NAL's AGRICOLA database covers all aspects of agriculture via bibliographic records to documents, including international agricultural trade topics such as policy, research, flows of commodities, environmental, taxation, and sociological impacts. AGRICOLA is produced soley by the NAL. The NAL's Agricultural Trade and Marketing Information Center (ATMIC) disseminates information on agribusiness, countertrade (barter), exports, and trade development. The NAL is located in Beltsville, Maryland. See: Agriculture Information System
NASDA is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization of the 50 state departments of agriculture and those from the trust territories of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, and the Virgin Islands. Headquarters are in Washington, D.C.
The National Association of State Development Agencies, NASDA, was formed in 1946 to provide a forum for directors of state economic development agencies to exchange information, compare programs, and deal with issues of mutual interest. NASDA's organization includes International Trade and Foreign Investment components. Trade activities include maintenance of a State Export Program Database
The NDER Program, which is operated by the Commerce Department's Bureau of Export Administration, recruits and trains experienced business executives and other qualified civilians to serve in key government positions during periods of emergency. These reservists would augment Department of Commerce staff as required to respond to national security emergencies.
The NIC is comprised of the U.S. National Intelligence Officers and concentrates on problems of particular geographic regions and functional areas such as economics and chemical/biological warfare.
National security controls restrict exports of U.S. goods and technology which would make a significant contribution to the military potential of another country and thus be detrimental to Western countries' national security.
The NSC was established by the National Security Act of 1947 to advise the President with respect to the integration of domestic, foreign, and military policies relating to national security.
NSDs provide policy or procedural guidance and are signed by the President. In 1989, the President reorganized the national security council committee process (separate from the EARB). As reorganized, under the NSC, there are committees for CoCom, terrorism, nonproliferation, etc. NSDs were known as National Security Decision Directives, NSDDs, before President Bush's reorganization. NSD-1 reorganized the process; NSD-10 established the committees. The scope of coverage and the players are about the same under the NSD and NSDD processes.
In some cases, despite a finding of foreign availability of a controlled commodity, control is maintained over exporting the commodity because it is deemed a national security sensitive item. The term national security override is used to describe this circumstance. The term has also been used in other contexts. For example, under a November 16, 1990 directive, the President tasked the interagency control groups to move as many dual use items from the State Department's International Munitions List to the Commerce Department's Commerce Control List. In some circumstances, a national security override is applied to prevent transfer of a particular item.
Legislation, passed in 1981, that created the U.S. Travel and Tourism Administration and required the establishment of the Tourism Policy Council and the Travel and Tourism Advisory Board.
An annual report by USTR that identifies significant foreign barriers to and distortions of trade.
National treatment affords individuals and firms of foreign countries the same competitive opportunities, including market access, as are available to domestic parties.
This GATT Negotiating Group was formed as a direct result of pressure from resource-rich LDCs to have an additional forum to deal with their special concerns, including the removal of barriers to trade in natural resource-based products. There are different interpretations among participants as to whether this group includes only three traditional product areas examined during the early 1980s GATT Work Program on NRBPs: non-ferrous metals and minerals; fish and fish products; and wood and wood products, or whether the Group may also discuss barriers in non-traditional product areas such as energy-based products
Distance of one minute of longitude at the equator, approximately 6,076.115. The metric equivalent is 1852.
Any small undefined naval vessels
The B/L is a title document to the goods, issued to the order of a party, usually the shipper, whose endorsement is required to effect is negotiation. Thus, a shipper's order (negotiable) B/L can be bought, sold, or traded while goods are in transit and is commonly used for letter-of-credit transactions. The buyer must submit the original B/L to the carrier in order to take possession of the goods
A document of title (such as a draft, promissory note, check, or bill of lading) transferable from one person to another in good faith for a consideration. Non-negotiable bills of lading are known as straight consignment. Negotiable bills are known as order b/l's.
Within the Uruguay Round, a negotiating group is a forum in which contracting parties plan and manage the multilateral negotiations dealing with a particular issue. In the Uruguay Round, there are two major groups, the Group of Negotiations on Goods (GNG) and the Group on Negotiations of Services (GNS). Within the GNG, there are 14 issue-oriented subgroups.
Articles packed so that one rests partially or entirely within another, thereby reducing the cubic-foot displacement.
Net foreign investment is the sum of U.S. exports of goods and services, receipts of factor income, and capital grants received by the United States (net), less the sum of imports of goods and services by the United States, payments of factor income, and transfer payments to foreigners (net). It may also be viewed as the acquisition of foreign assets by U.S. residents, less the acquisition of U.S. assets by foreign residents. It includes the BPA statistical discrepancy.
The weight of an empty cargo-carrying piece of equipment plus any fixtures permanently attached.
(0.2+0.02 log10(Vc)) Vc (4d/3D)2, for passenger ships the following formula is added: 1.25 (GT+10000)/10000 (N1+(N2/10)), where Vc is the volume of cargo holds, D is the distance between ship's bottom and the uppermost deck, d is the draught N1 is the number of cabin passengers, and N2 is the number of deck passengers.) Ton is figured as an 100 cubic foot ton.
Weight of the goods alone without any immediate wrappings, e.g., the weight of the contents of a tin can without the weight of the can.
A naval vessel for laying submarine nets from boom defences
Opposite to Gross Terms
An organization established by the members of an ocean conference acts as a self-policing force with broad authority to investigate tariff violations, including authority to scrutinize all documents kept by the carriers and their personnel. Violations are reported to the membership and significant penalties are assessed.
Cargo which has been booked but does not arrive in time to be loaded before the vessel sails. See also Windy Booking.
The Customs tariff used by most countries worldwide. It was formerly known as the Brussels Tariff Nomenclature and is the basis of the commodity coding system known as the Harmonized System.
A revolving letter of credit that prohibits the amount not used during the specific period from being available afterwards
Required by some countries for protection against the dumping of certain types of merchandise or products.
See Straight B/L. Sometimes means a file copy of a B/L.
A cargo consolidator in ocean trades who will buy space from a carrier and subsell it to smaller shippers. The NVOCC issues bills of lading, publishes tariffs and otherwise conducts itself as an ocean common carrier, except that it will not provide the actual ocean or intermodal service.
Front of a container or trailer - opposite the tail.
Harmful to personnel or the environment.
A cargo vessel arranged to carry nuclear fuel in flasks
A nuclear fuel carrier which is loaded and unloaded by way of a ro-ro ramp