Shipping Glossary
SPDSteamer pays dues |
Spine CarAn articulated five-platform railcar. Used where height and weight restrictions limit the use of stack cars. It holds five, forty-foot containers or combinations of forty and twenty-foot containers |
Split B/LOne of two or more B/Ls which have been split from a single B/L |
SpottingPlacing a container where required to be loaded or unloaded |
SPRSPECIAL PRIMAGE |
SpreaderA piece of equipment designed to lift containers by their corner castings |
SRCSTORAGE CHARGE |
SSCSPEC.SOLICITING COMPENS. |
SSPDShortshipped |
StabilityThe force that holds a vessel upright or returns it to upright if keeled over. Weight in the lower hold to increase stability. A vessel is stiff if it has high stability, tender if it has low stability |