Maritime Glossary
Source-cited definitions for shipping, engineering, navigation, and regulatory terminology. Confidence-scored and verified against primary IMO, IHO, and industry sources.
- Flag Stateflag · state of registry
- The country under whose laws a ship is registered, granting nationality and imposing obligations on the vessel.
- regulationlegaloperationshigh confidence
- Floating Production, Storage and OffloadingFPSO
- An offshore vessel that processes hydrocarbons from a subsea reservoir, stores the crude oil on board, and periodically offloads to shuttle tankers.
- offshorevessel-typesoil-and-gashigh confidence
- Freeboard
- The vertical distance from the waterline to the upper surface of the freeboard deck, measured amidships.
- vessel-measurementssafetyregulationhigh confidence