The business of running ships, from refuelling and chartering charges to transshipment and registration. An entry belongs here when the cited article calls the concept a practice of ship fuelling, chartering, trans-shipment or registration. It excludes rail and road concepts. Entries are placed by what their own cited article says, so each one sits in the narrowest group its source supports, and the group page lists it beside the other members.
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Wikipedia: Bunkering
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Bunkering is the supplying of fuel for use by ships (such fuel is referred to as bunker), including the logistics of loading and distributing the fuel among available shipboard tanks.
Wikipedia: Demurrage
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"Demurrage" in vessel chartering is the amount of liquidated damages owed by a charterer to a shipowner when the charterer remained in possession of the vessel for the purpose of loading and unloading (laytime) beyond the time allowed by contract.
Wikipedia: Transshipment
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Transshipment, trans-shipment or transhipment is the shipment of goods or containers to an intermediate destination, then to another destination.
Wikipedia: Flag of Convenience
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Flag of convenience (FOC) refers to a business practice whereby a ship's owners register a merchant ship in a ship register of a country other than that of the ship's owners, and the ship flies the civil ensign of that country, called the flag state.
Wikipedia: Roll-on/Roll-off
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ships are cargo ships designed specifically to transport wheeled cargo
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