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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 CarrierBC Bucharest Convention for the Protection of the Black Sea Against Pollution

BC CodeCode of Safe Practice for Solid Bulk Cargoes (IMO)New name New name - International Maritime Solid Bulk Cargoes Code

(IMSBC)

BCHCode

Code for the Construction and Equipment of Ships Carrying DangerousChemicals 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 CarrierBLR 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 Manufactur ing Practices

BMU Bermuda (Flag)

BN Booking Note

BNM Broadcast Notice to Mariners

BNWAS Bridge Navigational Watch Alarm SystemBOB 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 SurchargeBS&W Bottom Sediment and Water

BSC Brit ish Shippers Council

BSEP Black Sea Environment Programme

BSS Basis

BSS 1/1 Basis 1 Port to 1 Port

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Abbreviations and acronyms - BIMCO https://www.bimco.org/Members/Technical/Acronyms/B.asp

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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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