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Ship management is the activity of managing marine vessels. The vessels under management could be owned by a sister concern of the ship management company or by independent vessel owners. A vessel owning company that generally has several vessels in its fleet, entrusts the fleet management to a single or multiple ship management companies.
AFS – Auxiliary, Fast Stores, class/type of ship. A supply ship that carries a little bit of everything, nicknamed "7-11" AFSB – Afloat Forward Staging Base [2] AG – Aerographer's Mate [1] AIMD – Aircraft Intermediate Maintenance Department (or Detachment) AK – Auxiliary, Cargo, class/type of ship. An attack transport.
LST - Landing Ship Tank MOP - Medic Operational Pouch (previously Medical Orderly Pouch) RAI - Returnable Ammunition Item, usually referring to expanded cartridges for live or blank round that are required to be returned after training exercises.
The National Association of Fleet Administrators, Inc. (NAFA) is a not-for-profit, individual membership professional society for professionals who manage fleets of automobiles, SUVs, trucks, vans, and a wide range of specialized mobile equipment for organizations in the United States and Canada.
A ship prefix is a combination of letters, usually abbreviations, used in front of the name of a civilian or naval ship that has historically served numerous purposes, such as identifying the vessel's mode of propulsion, purpose, or ownership/nationality. In the modern environment, prefixes are cited inconsistently in civilian service, whereas ...
The Baltic and International Maritime Council (BIMCO) is one of the largest of the international shipping associations representing shipowners. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] BIMCO states that its membership represents approximately 60 percent of the world's merchant shipping tonnage and that it has members in more than 130 countries, including managers, brokers ...
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Its future achievement is likely to be the implementation of the e-navigation. e-navigation does not aim at ships being electronically operated but gathering and displaying all navigation information through connected sources of information and harmonized data exchange. IALA is based near Paris in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France.