VARIOUS TERMS IN PORT OPERATION Flashcards
Place with sufficient depth of water where vessels may anchor.
Anchorage
The water area at the port entrance via which vessels navigate to make for the shelter; the gate of the port or protected areas of the port
Approaches
Container that is physically damage which may allow exposure of cargoes to adverse conditions, natural elements and pilferage.
Bad Order Container (BOC)
Means a naturally or artificially enclosed or nearly enclosed body of water in free communication with the sea.
Basin
The part of the pier/ wharf that is occupied by a vessel or place where a vessel may tie up
Berth
The maneuvering of a vessel from the anchorage or pilot station to a berth, including the action to make fast the vessel alongside
Berthing
A strong post on a ship or a dock holding a hawser fast
Bollard
The extreme forward end of a vessel.
Bow
Ingot of gold or silver regarded as raw materials
Bullion
Terms used to descrive cargoes carried in bulk, not package in separate units.Loose coal,sugar, oil and ores are example of bulk cargoes
Bulk Cargoes
A floating object moored to the bottom to guide vessels in navigation.
Buoy
The load of a vessel or goods and merchandise put on board a ship to be carried to a certain port.
Cargoes
Any individual, partnership or corporation recognized by the PPA to provide CH services at government ports.
Cargo Handling Operator (CHO)
A natural or artificial waterway of perceptible extend which either periodically or continuously contains moving water or which forms a connecting link between two bodies of water; or part of a body water deep enough to be used for navigation through the area otherwise too low for navigation
Channel
An equipment used to carry containers from one place to another under the law by prime movers or tractors as extension of ship’s gear unless declared as an extension of ship’s gear unless declared as an importation
Chassis
Services of tallying marks, Countermarks and numbers, quantity, conditions of cargoes whether in good or bad order and measurement of breakbulk or bulk cargoes, containers performed by a duly
authorized cargo checker.
Checking services
Cargoes packed in containers for easy handling or transporting of the same as a unit
Containerized Cargo
A structure so designated to hold and keep articles, materials and product together inside a hold in the form of boxes, tanks or the like for singular or unit handling and transport, generally having an internal volume or capacity or not less than 1CBM. Containers are further defined according to their uses as dry cargo, refrigerated, liquid, bulk, platform,
open top, solid bulk, ventilated etc
Container
Berthing space especially designed and constructed to accommodate containerships
Container Berth
A warehouse or a transit shed adjacent to the Container Yard used for sorting and storage of container cargo
Container Freight Station (CFS)
A cargo vessel designed and constructed primarily to carry containers.
Containership
A port facility designed to provide an integrated use of berthing facilities for containership and harbor transport system for containers and their contents
Container Terminal
A designated areain a container terminal usually adjacent to the marshalling yard where containers and chassis are received, stocked and arranged/ dispatched.
Container Yard (CY)
A signal station generally located at a place which commands a full view of the container terminal. It supervises by signals, telephones or other means of communicating the movements, stacking and handling of containers in the terminal.
Control Tower
A cargo vessel designed and constructed primarily to carry break bulk and limited quantity of cargo.
Conventional Ship
Substances, which, by chemical action, will
cause severe damage when in contact with living
tissue, or in the case of leakage, will materially damage or even destroy freight or the means of transport.
Corrosives
Substances, materials and
articles covered by the International Maritime
Dangerous Goods (IMDG) Code and/or those which on account of their nature cannot be stored in general cargo space or handled at the same time as innocuous cargoes as they may expose people and property to harm or destruction by fire, explosion, poison or other dangers to life.
Dangerous Cargoes
A platform or roof which a section of a ship holds, serving as floor
Deck
Are vessels which are not engaged in commercial
trade as certified by the MARINA or PCG
Decommissioned Vessels
Locks, cuts entrances inclined plane, waterways and works and things appertaining to any dock
Dock
All or any of the work or those duties associated with the work performed on shore or on board a vessel of loading or discharging to/from a vessel whether engaged in maritime or inland port, harbor, dock, wharf, quay or similar place which such work is carried out
Dockwork
A person who works on shore and on board vessel.
Dockworker
The amount assessed against a vessel engaged in international trade or foreign trade that do not berth but drop anchor at either government or privately owned whether operated exclusively or commercially.
Dockage at Anchorage
The amount assessed against a vessel engaged in international or foreign trade, including those engaged in barter trade, for mooring or berthing at pier, wharf, bulkhead wharf at any national port or for mooring or making fast to a vessel so berthed
Dockage at Berth
A buoyor spar used in mooring a boat.
Dolphin
The depth/level of the vessel below the waterline, measured vertically from the waterline to the lowest part of the hull.
Draft
Includes harbor fees, tonnage and wharfage dues, berthing charges, and port dues and any other dues or fees imposed by virtue of existing law or PD 857.
Dues
The business of leasing or providing CH gears, equipment and appliance for cargo movement or delivery
Equipment Hire
Material used for protection of cargo
Dunnage
A dock from which the water can be temporarily excluded in order to effect repairs to hulls and keels of ships or vessels
Drydock
Waster matter extracted from the body as sweat or urine or feces.
Excrete
A part of a waterway kept open and unobstructed for navigation.
Fairway
A container loaded with cargoes belonging to a single consignee and/or covered only by 1 B/L
Full Container Load (FCL)
A pad or cushion of rope, wood, old tires, etc. hung over a ship’s side to protect it in docking
Fender
A cylindrical chimney or smoke stack
Funnel
A group of cargo workers employed to work on board a ship or ashore for loading and unloading of cargoes to and from the ship or vice-versa.
Gang
Also referred to as breakbulk cargoes are those that are listed in a number of bill of lading each consisting of different commodities. These shall include, but not limited to, bagged cargoes, crates, cylinders, cases, baskets, bales, rolls and such other like or similar type of packing, including vehicles, live animals, crated or uncrated fowls such as chickens, ducks and the like and other loose cargoes
General Cargoes