L.A.S.H. Lighters or barges are loaded and transported with such a ship.
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RESIDUAL DIRT CAPACITY
The dirt capacity remaining in a service loaded filter element after use, but before cleaning, measured under the same conditions as the dirt capacity of a new filter element.
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TOP-OFF
To fill a ship which is already partly loaded with cargo or bunkers.
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BREAK BULK CARGO
Goods that must be loaded aboard a ship individually, and not in intermodal containers or in bulk, carried by a general cargo ship.
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LOADED TO THE GUNWALES
Having cargo loaded as high as the ship's rail.
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PLIMSOLL LINE
A special marking, positioned amidships, that indicates the draft of the vessel and the legal limit to which the vessel may be loaded for specific water types and temperatures.
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CAMELS
Loaded vessels lashed tightly, one on each side of another vessel, and then emptied to provide additional buoyancy that reduces the draught of the ship in the middle.
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RAILHEAD
End of the railroad line or point in the area of operations at which cargo is loaded and unloaded.
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PIGGYBACK
A rail transport mode where a loaded truck trailer is shipped on a rail flatcar.
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TRACTOR-TRAILER
A truck that have three main units. The front section where the driver sits is called the cab or the tractor (because it pulls a load). Cargo is loaded into the metal box (container), which is loaded onto the wheel base called a chassis or a trailer.
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APRON
The area immediately in front of or behind a wharf shed on which cargo is lifted. On the 'front apron,' cargo is unloaded from or loaded onto a ship. Behind the shed, cargo moves over the 'rear apron' into and out of railroad cars.
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