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B/D Barrels per day

B/L Bale
B/L Bill of Lading
BL Bill of Lading
B/N Booking Note
BAF Bunker Adjustment Factor
BAP Best Available Protection
BAREP Baltic Sea Position Reporting System
BBB Before Breaking Bulk (i.e. before discharge of cargo commences)
BBLS Barrels (Oil measure 1 barrel = approximately 159 litres)
BC Bulk Carrier
BC Bucharest Convention for the Protection of the Black Sea Against Pollution
Code of Safe Practice for Solid Bulk Cargoes (IMO)
BC Code New name New name - International Maritime Solid Bulk Cargoes Code
(IMSBC)
BCH Code for the Construction and Equipment of Ships Carrying Dangerous
Code Chemicals in Bulk (IMO)
BCM Distance from Bow to Centre of Manifolds
BDI Both Dates Inclusive
BDI Baltic Dry Index
BDN Bunker Delivery Note
BEL Belgium (Flag)
BENDS Both Ends (Load and Discharge Ports).
BFI Baltic Freight Index
BGCP Berth Grain Charter Party
BHD Bulkhead
BHP Brake Horse Power
BHS Bahamas (Flag)
BI Both Inclusive
BIIBA British Insurance and Investment Brokers Association
BIMCO Former Baltic and International Maritime Council - now BIMCO
BIPAR International Association of Producers of Insurance and Reinsurance
BISD Basic Instruments and Selected Documents (GATT)
BKI Biro Klasifikasi Indonesia (Indonesian Class Society)
BL Bulgarian Lloyd (Class Society)
BLADING Bill of Lading
BLF Bow Loading Facility
BLG Subcommittee on Bulk Liquids and Gases (IMO)
BLK Bulk
BLKCAR Bulk Carrier
BLR Boiler
BLRHS Boiler Heating Surface (Combined)
BLT Built
BLU Code Code of practice for the Safe Loading and Unloading of Bulk Carriers (IMO)
BM Beam
BM Boom
BM Mayanmar (Burma) (Flag)
BML Biodiversity Map Library (UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Center)
BMLA British Maritime Law Association
BMP Best Manufacturing Practices
BMU Bermuda (Flag)
BN Booking Note
BNM Broadcast Notice to Mariners
BNWAS Bridge Navigational Watch Alarm System
BOB Bunkers on Board
BOFFER Best Offer
BOSCA British Oil Spill Control Association
BOSVA British Offshore Support Vessel Owners Association
BPI Baltic Panamax Index
BPP Beet Pulp Pellets (Cargo)
BR Brazil (Flag)
BR Brazilian Registry (Class Society)
BRG Bearing
BRM Bridge Resources Management
BROA British Rig Owners Association
BROB Bunkers Remaining On Board
BS Boiler Survey
BS (B/S) Bunker Surcharge
BS&W Bottom Sediment and Water
BSC British Shippers Council
BSEP Black Sea Environment Programme
BSS Basis
BSS 1/1 Basis 1 Port to 1 Port
BS-SAP Black Sea Strategic Action Plan

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BT Bow Thruster
BTCS Butterworth Tank Cleaning System (high pressure jets of hot water)
BTM Bottom
BTX Benzene, Toluene and Xylenes
BV Bureau Veritas (French Class Society)
BW Ballast Water
BW Brackish Water
BWAD Brackish Water Arrival Draft
BWE Ballast Water Exchange
BWT Ballast Water Tank
BWT Ballast Water Treatment
BZ Belize (Flag)

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