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Oil

This category refers to oil as petroleum, a liquid flammable that occurs in nature that has a complex mixture of hydrocarbons and other varying liquid organic compounds. Oil is found in geologic formations under the Earth's surface.

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Lasting

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Crew members in some sailing ships that go up on the masts to perform movements on the set of sails.

Route

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1 - The path followed by a boat. 2 - The direction which the boat takes from a fixed point on the surface of the Earth. It rarely matches the stem direction, due to wind and current action, which ...

Davit

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Metal column, normally rotating, having its superior part curved in order to receive a device to hoist or lower. It serves to hoist or lower small ships or other weighs.

Kind of commodity navigation

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Kind of ship used to register load.It can be called long haul, coasting trade, river, lake or ocean. So the commodity is characterised according to its origin and destination.

Crude oil

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Mixture, in variable proportions, of solid, liquid or gas hydrocarbons, in the normal conditions that it is presented, in its natural state, under pressure and at relatively high temperatures in the ...

Kind of operation

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It defines the way commodities are loaded or unloaded in a ship, being named after the kinds of equipment used in the task.

Cruising speed

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Speed at which the ship has the highest steaming radius. In the naval force they also call cruising speed, the speed with which a ship or a naval force should move between two points or during a ...