Marine Encyclopaedic Dictionary

Eric Sullivan

• Publisher: Informa Law from Routledge
• Year: 2020
• ISBN:
  9781000288155
• Edition: 6
• Topic: Droit
• Subtopic: Droit maritime

Featuring over 20, 000 definitions, this dictionary has been revised to reflect changes and advances in the marine industry. It covers every aspect of the business, including shipbroking, chartering, marine insurance, ship's agency, freight forwarding, oil and gas, and air transport.

C

c or C Capacity; Carat; Carton; Case; Cent; Centigram; Centimetre; Centre; Chapter; Curie, q.v.; Currency; Current.

C Candle; Capacity; Capsule; Carbon; Cathode; Celsius; Cedi; Centigrade; Centre Lloyd’s Register notation; Chancery; Chapter; Chief; Chronometer time nautical; Church; Circa; Circus; City; Cloudy nautical; Collected; Compass Direction; Congress; Constant; Consul; Convertible; Correction altitude; Coulomb electric charge; Course; Course Angle nautical; Electrical capacity measured in Farad; Detached Clouds meteorology; Total capacity of containers; Lloyd’s Register notation signifying that the ship’s engines are compound; Roman numeral for the figure 100.

C-1 Vessel A United States Maritime Commission term in regard to standardisation of a cargo vessel having a single screw with diesel or turbine engines.

C-2 Vessel A United States Maritime Commission term in regard to standardisation of a cargo shelterdeck vessel with diesel or turbine engines.

C-3 Vessel A United States Maritime Commission term in regard to standardisation of a cargo shelterdeck vessel or a cargo passenger vessel having a single screw with diesel or turbine engines.

C.II Form Lloyd’s Register of Shipping Form related to a vessel’s Load Line.

C/- Coupon; Currency.

C/- or Cs. Case.

ca Circa Latin/Italian—About.

Ca Companhia Portuguese, Compania Spanish, Compagnia Italian—Company.

CA California, USA; Calcium; Controlled Atmosphere.

CA. Central America; Controlled Atmosphere.

C/A Charterers’ Agent/s.

C/A or C.A. Capital Allowances Tax; Capital; Current Account; Caterers’ Association; Central Accounting; Central America/Africa; Certificate of Airworthiness; Certifying Authority; Chartered Accountant; Chemical Abstracts; Chief Accountant; Child Allowances Tax; Chronological Age; Church Assembly; City Attorney; Civil Affairs; Civil Aviation; Claim Agents insurance; Claim Adjustment; Classical Association; College of Arms; Command Accountant; Commercial Agent; Community Association; Companies Act; Comptroller of Accounts; Constituent Assembly; Consular Agents; Consumer’s Association; Current Alternating; Current Assets; Court of Appeal; Cruising Association.

CAA or C.A.A. Capital Allowance Act; Central African Airways Corporation; Civil Aviation Aeronautics USA; Civil Aviation Authority; Collision Advance Aids; Community Action Agency USA; Cost Accountants’ Association.

CAAA Commuter Airline Association of America.

CAACE Comité des Associations d’Armateurs des Comunautes Européenes French—Committee of the Common Market Owners’ Association.

CAADRP Civil Aircraft Airworthiness Data Recording Programme.

CAAIS Canadian Assisted Action Information Systems.

CAAS Civil Aviation Authority Singapore.

CAB or C.A.B. Captured Air Bubble referring to Air Cushion Vessel; Civil Aeronautics Board USA; Co-operative Analysis Broadcasting; Consumers’ Advisory Board.

Cab (1) The visual control room aviation. (2) Sheltered corner position of a bridge. (3) Cabriolet. All types of wheeled carriage with a number plate for hire to the general public for transportation purposes—a taxi. The legal expression for cab is ‘hackney carriage’.

CABA or C.A.B.A. Compressed Air Breathing Apparatus.

Cabby Cab Driver; a taxi driver.

CABE or C.A.B.E. or c.a.b.e. Charterers’ Agents Both Ends. Charterparty expression.

Cabin A small room or compartment in a ship or aircraft to accommodate officers, crew or passengers.

Cabin Boy A youth employed on a passenger ship whose duty is to wait on officers and passengers.

Cabin Class An air or sea passenger seat or accommodation costing less than 1st or special class.

Cabin Passengers Passengers on ships who are accommodated in cabins as opposed to Steerage Passengers, q.v.

Cabin Staff Stewards, q.v., and stewardesses of the airline crew attending to the needs of passengers and other crew members.

Cable Telegram; A nautical length of 600 feet or 100 fathoms.

Cable or Telex Transfer A money remittance from one bank to another overseas bank by means of cable or telex. The telex system accelerates the payment procedure.

Cable Car or Cableway A form of car or carriage which moves along a cable carrying passengers or materials.

Cablegram A telegram via underwater cable. Commercially this is being replaced by the telex system. See Cable or Telex Transfer.

Cable Laid or Hawser Laid A rope pattern consisting of three strands of left hand twisted rope, each strand being an individual rope.

Cabo da Buona Speranza See Cabo Tormentoso.

Cabo Tormentoso Cape of Good Hope or Stormy Cape or Cabo da Buona Speranza.

Cableway See Cable Car.

Caboose (1) Last freight train car which is used by the crew. (2) Deck house on a ship particularly used for cooking. (3) Ship’s galley.

Cabotage or Cabotage Fare Certain countries give priority to commerce and tourism. On this understanding mutual agreements come into operation to develop freight and passenger services on a relatively cheap basis by way of encouragement. Nowadays cabotage air fares are applicable to groups of air travellers between countries with mutual agreements and where state licences are issued to operate these special flights.

Caboteur French—Coaster; Coasting Vessel.

Cab’t Cabinet.

CAC Central Arbitration Committee; Customs Additional Code.

CACA or C.A.C.A. Canadian Agricultural Chemicals Association; Cement and Concrete Association.

CACAS Civil Aviation Council of Arab States.

C.A.C.C. Civil Aviation Communications Centre.

CACD Computer-Aided Circuit Design.

Cacex Carteira do Comercio Exterior, Banco de Brazil Portuguese. Overseas Commercial Bank of Brazil.

Cache French—A hiding-place for provisions, ammunition etc.

CACM Central American Common Market consisting of Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica. A treaty signed in 1960 and put into operation in 1961.

cacoethes loquindi Latin—Mania for talking.

cacoethes scribendi Latin—Mania for writing.

CA Conf Cargo Agency Conference.

CACTLVO or C.A.C.T.L.V.O. Comprised and/or Arranged and/or Constructive Total Loss of Vessel Only marine insurance.

CACUL Canadian Association of College and University Libraries.

CAC & W Continental Aircraft Control and Warning.

CAD or C.A.D. or c.a.d. Cash Against Documents or Disbursements; Contract Award Date; Cash After Delivery; Computer Aided Design.

c-à -d C’est-à -dire French—That is to say; Namely.

CADC Central Air Data Computer; Colour Analys...