Dictionary of shipping

This fifth edition of Alan Branch's comprehensive and internationally established dictionary contains an additional 4,000 new entries, taking the total to some 18,000 definitions.
First published over thirty years ago, this latest edition contains all the terms for conducting international business. The work embraces the four elements of the international contract - finance, carriage, insurance and export sale - and includes terms relating to international business, marketing, banking, seaports, airfreight, documentation, shipping, multi-modalism, electronic data interchange, marine insurance and tourism.
Useful appendices include: Exportmaster consignment flowchart, Exportmaster operations flow chart, Exportmaster sales process and shipping process flowcharts, Major ports and their location, Currencies, Conversions of weights and measures, plus IMO Dangerous Goods labels.
This new edition is conveniently contained in a more compact format.