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C Council (IMO)
C (CNTR) Centre
C&E Customs and Excise (UK)
C&F Cost and Freight
C&F FO Cost and Freight Free Out
C/ES Extraordinary Council meeting (IMO)
C/SNEE CONSIGNEE. Name of agent, company or person receiving consignment
C/V Consecutive Voyage
CA Certified Agreement
CA Centre Aft
CA Controlled Atmosphere
CABAF Currency and Bunker Adjustment Factor
CAD Cash Against Documents
CAD Computer Assisted Design
CAF Currency Adjustment Factor
CAJEA Council of All Japanese Exporter's Association
CAM Computer Assisted Manufacture
CAN Calcium Ammonium Nitrate (Cargo)
CAP Condition Assessment Program
Very large bulk carrier with deadweight above 80,000 tons - normally
Capesize unable to transit Suez Canal and therefore have to sail round the Cape of
Good Hope to and from Europe
CAS Condition Assessment Scheme (IMO)
CAS Collision Avoidance System
CAS Continuous Automatic Control System Survey
CASP Computer Assisted Search Planning System
CASS Cargo Accounts Settlement System
Catfeed "Feedstock" to a catalytic cracker
CAXBS Composite Auxiliary Boiler Survey
CBA Competency based Assessment
CBA Cost Benefit Assessment
CBFS Carbon Black Feed Stock
CBFT Cubic Foot/Cubic Feet
CBM Cubic Metre
CBM Conventional Buoy Mooring
CU.M. Cubic Metres
CBS Cyprus Bureau of Shipping (Class Society)
CBT Competency Based Training
CBT Cumputer Based Training
CBT Clean Ballast Tanks
CCA Chemical Carriers Association
CCAF French Shipowner's association
CCC Clean Caribbean Cooperative
CCC Container Carrier Council
CCC Customs Co-Operation Council
CCF Capital Construction Fund (U.S.)
CCP Controllable Pitch Propeller
CCR Cargo Control Room
CCS (CS) China Classification Society (P.R. China)
CD Customary Dispatch
CDI Chemical Distribution Institute
CDS Chemical Data Sheet
CE EU Marking of approved products
CE Chief Enginer
CEC Commission of European Communities
Centre de Documentation de Recherche et d’Experimentations sur les
CEDRE pollutions accidentelles des eaux (Centre for Documentation, Research
and Development for Accidental Water Pollution)
CEDS Civil Engineering Data System
CEFIC European Council of Chemical Manufacturers' Federations
CEFOR Maritime insurer central association
CEN European Committee for Standardisation
CENELEC European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardisation
CENSA Council of European & Japanese National Shipowners Associations
Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act
CERCLA
("Superfund")
CERT Certificate
CES
Coast Earth Station (Satellite Ground Station)
INMARSAT
CESA Committee of EC Shipbuilders Associations (Formerly AWES)
CESMA Confederation of European Union Shipmasters Associations
CEU Car Equivalent Unit (Car carriers =10m3)
CFD Contract for difference. A type of crude oil swap.
CFE/TLE Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty Implementation

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CFR Code of Federal Regulations (U.S.)

CFR (C&F) Cost and Freight
CFS Container Freight Station
CFS Cubic Feet per Second
CFTBS Cylindrical Fire-Tube Boiler Survey
CG Correspondence Group (IMO)
CG Coast Guard
CGDDMS Coast Guard Digital Data Management System
CH China (Flag)
CHCP Cargo Handling Cooperative Program
CHILREP Chilean Ship Reporting System
CHIRP Confidential Hazardous Incident Reporting Programme
CHOPT Charterer's Option
CHS Continuous Survey of Hull
CHTRS Charterers
CIF Cost Insurance Freight
Cost Insurance Freight and Commission. Seller pays all these costs to a
CIF(C)
nominated port or place of discharge
CIP Carriage and Insurance paid to...
CIP Freight carriage and insurance
CIRC Circular (IMO)
CIRC Circulating
CIRM International Radio-Maritime Committee
CIRRS Commercial Interest Reference Rates
Commonwealth of Independent States (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus,
CIS Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan,
Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan)
CIT Chartered Institute of Transport
CIT US Court of International Trade
CKD Completely Knocked Down
CL Continuous Liner
CLC 69 International Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution Damage, 1969
Protocol to the International Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution
CLC 92
Damage, 1992
CLPR Czech Register of Shipping (Class Society)
CLS Closed Loading system
CMA Companie d'Affretement
CME Assessment Model for Coastal and Marine Environments
CMF Composite Meter Factor
Comité Maritime International - the international association for maritime
CMI
law
CMS Continuous Survey of Machinery
CNG Compressed Natural Gas
CNIS Channel Navigation Information Service
CNR Charterer Not Revealed.
CNS Communications, Navigation and Surveillance
CO Cargo Oil
CO Chief Officer
Contract of Affreightment - Owners agree to accept a cost per revenue
COA
tonne for cargo carried on a specific number of voyages.
COACP Contract of Affreightment Charter Party
COB Closing of Business
COB Container/Oil/Bulk Carrier
COBLDN Closing of Business London
COBRA Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985
Commision Centroamerican de Transporte Maritimo (Managua,
COCATRAM
Nicaragua)
COD Cash On Delivery
COFR Certificate of Financial Responsibility (OPA 90)
COGSA Carriage of Goods by Sea Act(s)
COI Certificate of Inspection (Coast Guard)
COI Certificate of Insurance
Convention on the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at
COLREG
Sea, 1972 (IMO)
COMA Committee on Measurement Accountability
COMM Commenced
Sub-Committee on Radio-communications and Search and Rescue
COMSAR
(IMO)
Oil Companies European Organisation for Environment and Health
CONCAWE
Protection
CONS Consumption
CONT Continued
Market where prices are progressively higher for forward delivery dates
CONTANGO
than for nearer dates.
CONVER Conversion
COP Custom of the Port

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COR Certificate of Registry
CORDIS Community Research and Development Information Service (EU)
CORE National Contingency Response
COREDES Committee for research and development in European shipbuilding
COSPAS-
International Satellite Search and Rescue System
SARSAT
CoSWP Code of Safe Working Practices For Merchant Seamen
COT Cargo Oil Tank
COTCTFC Chaterer's Option To Complete To Full Cargo
COTP Captain Of The Port
COW Crude Oil Washing
CP (C/P) Charter Party
CPA Closest Point of Approach
CPD Charterers Pay Dues
CPP Clean Petroleum Products
CPP Controllable Pitch Propeller
CPT Carriage Paid To
CPY Cargo Preference Year
CQD Customary Quick Dispatch
CR Crane
CR Current Rate
CR China Corporation Register of Shipping (Class Society)
CRC Cold Rolled Coils (Cold Rolled Steel Plating Coils) (Cargo)
CR(D) Current Rate (Discharge)
CRF Construction Reserve Fund
Contract Regarding a Supplement to Tanker Liability for Oil Pollution
CRISTAL
(CHRISTAL ended in 1997)
CRN Crane
CROB Cargo Remaining on Board
Cargo Retention Clauses, introduced by charterers based on shortage of
CRT
delivered cargo because of increased oil prices
CRS Continuous Refrigeration Survey
CRS Croatian Register of Shipping (Class Society)
CSA Caribbean Shipping Association
CSA Chamber of Shipping of America
CSC Container Safety Convention (IMO)
CSD Closed Shelter Deck Ship
CSI Container Security Initiative
CSM Closed System Measurement
CSO Company Security Officer
CSR Continuous Synopsis Record
CSS Code of Shipmanagement Standards
CSS Code Code of Safe Practice for Cargo Stowage and Securing (IMO)
CST Centistokes (kinematic viscosity)
CST Central Standard Time
CSWR Chamber of Shipping War Risk CP clauses
C/T Cargo Tank
CT Cargo Tank
CTAC Chemical Transportation Advisory Committee
CTC Cargo Tank, Centre
CTL Constructive Total Loss
CTR Container Fitted
CTSH Correction Temperature of Tank Shell
CTU Cargo Transport Unit
CTW Cargo Tank, Wing
CTWUEC Committee of Transport Workers' Unions in the EC
CV Cape Verde Islands (Flag)
CVM Contingent Valuation Method
CVS Consecutive Voyages
CWA Clean Water Act (USA)
CWA Cooperative Working Agreements
CWTBS Cylindrical Water-Tube Boiler Survey
CY Container yard
CY Cyprus (Flag)
CZM Coastal Zone Management

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