The content of this booklet is arranged in two big parts - the first part provides necessary instructions for the carriage of the refrigerated cargoes and the second part is dedicated to the transportation of the frozen fish by reefers. The refrigerated cargoes are commonly perishable to some degree and their safe transportation mainly depends on maintaining the proper storage conditions in the course of the transportation.

This equally applies to all transportation modes and all refrigerated cargoes, though the conditions are considered much more critical for the long journeys and perishable commodities. These cargoes would normally include chilled and frozen goods, including fresh fruits/vegetables. The frozen goods generally will not suffer in case of over-cooling while chilled goods can easily get damaged by the low temperature. Successful transportation of the chilled and frozen goods seriously depends on the correct carriage instructions, defining the technical conditions for the transportation.

Should the carriage instructions be wrong, inadequate, incomplete or contradictory then the problems can definitely be expected, including the risk of cargo loss and subsequent claims. The way of stowing the cargo is also very important for the safe and successful transportation, however this volume is mainly concentrated on the carriage instructions themselves...

The correct, satisfactory and adequate securing and stowage of the cargo are of critical importance for the overall safety of the ship's crew, the ship, and the cargo itself. If the cargo is not properly stowed and secured, taking into account the time of the year and the intended voyage, subject cargo may easily get shifted from its original position and start moving, potentially sustaining serious damage and also causing the damage to the vessel and even endanger the human lives.

The content of the present LP Guide is intended to take the readers through some fundamental practical rules that shall be remembered by all people involved in cargo operations during each loafing and securing of the cargo; it clearly describes where they can found all relevant rules and regulations, general industry recommendations and required guidance, as well as the recommended established methods that shall be used for specific cargo items; it also provides readers with the necessary guidance related to the points to remember during the planning of the passage and during the passage itself.

The authors of the volume has set out the fundamentals and give the references to the documents providing the rules to follow. The Guide contains lot of the useful information, e.g. relating to the calculation of the lashings, taken from the relevant Codes, but only those considered essential to make the text clearly understood...

This is a basic publications released to introduce the beginners to the navigational tools and vocabulary as well as to the established and effective celestial navigation techniques. In the list of the recommended navigational instruments are the H. O. 259 tables which are in a very wide use among the amateur marine navigators owing to their simplicity and ease of use.

In fact, there are no pre-requisites for using this book - the readers are only expected to be able to read, add/subtract, understand the angles and know how to use the protractor. Al sailors will for sure enjoy this volume, regardless of their experience - the content of this classic book will definitely be equally useful and interesting to everyone from armchair-navigators to the racers and circumnavigators. The celestial navigation, i.e. steering by the stars is the art perfected by the seafarers of ancient Polynesia navigating over thousand years before Europeans.

The book covers all important aspects of celestial navigation, including required equipment, language and taking a sight, line of position and plotting it, fix, determining the latitude, moon and starts, three-star fix, start finding, polishing the celestial navigation skills etc. Three appendices presented at the end provide readers with the table of formulas, and list of abbreviations and symbols commonly used in celestial navigation.

The present report has been worked out by the OECD Maritime Transport Committee and made available to a public. The document itself has been arranged in four major parts. The first part provides some pure introductory information. The second part addresses the existing regimes of maritime cargo liabilities, and their common elements and differences, in particular.

The third part of the paper is mainly dedicated to the existing regimes on which significant differences have been there. Finally, the fourth and last part of the booklet contains the valuable concluding remarks. There are also some annexes in the book providing the information supplementary to the main content of the publication. Subject annexes are covering the description of the project, list all organizations that have been consulted on July Paper, address the liability for the transported cargo on multi-modal journeys, providing some preliminary analysis of the subject issues.

The fourth annex presents a good technical comparison of the responsibilities taken by the carriers together with their liability for cargoes under the main regimes of cargo liability. And, finally, the last annex provides the readers with a comparison of various liability limits, and notice periods that are set for the notifications of damage or loss, plus the timelines for initiation of the associated legal proceedings under the above mentioned main cargo liability regimes.

The present CCS Rules apply to the two types of steel floating docks operating fixedly in sheltered waters - cassoon type and pontoon type. In the first type of FDD (floating dry dock) both wing walls and bottom caisson are continuous and inseparable, while in the second type the bottom is formed of non-continuous pontoons while the wing falls are continuous.

The pontoons of the floating dock may be either detachable or, alternatively, they may be permanently attached to the wing walls. China Classification Society will, however, give special consideration to the FDD of other types. These Rules are applicable to the floating dock contracted for construction on or after the date of entry into force of the Rules. This also applies to the floating dock converted from a ship.

The Rules consist of six major chapters covering general provisions, hull structure, stability, maximum submerged draught mark, freeboard and working, machinery installations, electrical installations, fire protection, fire detection, and fire extinction. Apart from the designers and constructors of the floating dry docks. this book will be of great use for everyone willing to get some knowledge of the requirements that generally apply to such structures.

Two books making this RYA training set contain all required materials. The content of the first book is arranged in two parts; the chapters of the first part cover the sextant, the meridian passage sight and non-meridian passage sight logic, spherical/PHZ triangle, plotting the position lines, position fixing, planets, Moon and stars, the Pole Star, compass checking and Great Circle Sailing plus valuable tips on practical use of the sight reduction tables.

The second part of the same book address the meteorology including synoptic charts, berg winds and fog prediction, weather bulletin schedule, passage planning/making, systems of satellite navigation. In addition, it contains the solutions to the examples and extracts taken from nautical almanac and sight reduction tables.

The second book of the set continues with the meteorology, additionally covering the coastal effects and weather picture, air masses and winds, clouds and fog, occlusions and storms, navigation areas and revolving storms, plus the list and explanation of the terminology in use and instructions on preparation of the synoptic charts, weather forecasting, thunderstorms, plus several appendices addressing the inversions and fog prediction, berg winds, and also containing the synoptic charts for different regions. General explanation of the satellite navigation systems has also been provided.

And here comes the perfect and so easy to follow an understand guidance to building boats for amateurs. This book has become world popular among boatbuilders as a result of the simple and straightforward way of explanation. The authors of the publication presented all information using a tack-and-tape method as well the framing method, which is more conventional.

There are so many people who have managed to build the boats using the designs, techniques and data provided on the pages of this publication. The duet of authors consisting of the professional boatbuilder Harold Payson and professional designer Phil Bolger created a perfect reference source. the secret of the success of this book was the proper combination of the boatbuilding genius and excellent writing style of Payson with the amazing designs prepared by Bolger.

The general technical knowledge and a huge number of construction plans and drawings allows the boatbuilding enthusiasts to construct nearly everything from a regular six-foot boat to a twenty-five-foot classic schooner. The book is written having the newcomer in mind, that is why the authors preferred not to go too deep into technical information - all the construction methods presented there are fool-proof, practical and easy to implement.

Here is an excellent and very informative guide to the vessels and weapons of the Royal British Navy fleet. The publication opens with the comprehensive review of the Royal Navy which is then followed by the several sections where the author details the fleets of the Royal Navy and Auxiliary, together with the support vessels being operated under the contract.

The content of the book is also covering the Army and Royal Mariners, giving some overview of the Border Force. The text of the publication is featuring wealth of the technical and other information and is supplemented with the numerous color images for each of the vessels of this class; the book is also offering its readers the class listings and technical specifications of all the vessels addressed, their silhouettes and pennant numbers, plus some brief notes.

The publication is concluding with a listing of the vessels that are preserved within the UK and operating after decommissioning in secondary roles, plus the summary of the ships which were scrapped. We would definitely recommend the present book by Steve Bush to all people with the interest in naval warfare, and particularly in the warfare of the British Navy fleet as they will find all required information in a single volume.