Maritime acronyms and abbreviations, 2003

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Maritime Acronyms and Abbreviations 1
cA actinium
CA Alternating C urrent
A
CA altocumulus.
a altitude intercept (Ho~Hc); altitude I&CA Acquisition, Construction &
factor (change of altitude in 1 minute Improvement
of time from meridian transit); SIDACA Coast Guard Academy Information
assumed: ampere. System
A amplitude; augmentation; away CCA Antarctic Circumpolar Current.
(altitude intercept); Arctic/Antarctic (air
mass). a semimajor axis; anode; CCA Area Control Centre
angstrom; area of pipe; Area; CCA Automatic Control System Certified
Acceleration (in general); Ampere;
ACCU Automatic Control System Certified for
search area.
Unattended Engine Room
Å angstrom
DCA Allocated Configuration
A.L.R.S. Admiralty List of Radio Signals. Documentation
A.M.C. American Maritime Cases ECA American Council on Education
C/A aircraft ACFN American Committee for Flags of
D/A analog/digital Necessity
F/A All Fast GCA Annual Cargo Gear Survey
M/A automatic/manual ICA Allocated Configuration Identification
S/A Alongside TNICA Acoustic Intelligence
AA arithmetical average and Alum inum PICA Aviat ion Career Incentive Pay
Association KCA egdelwonKCA
AAAA Always Afloat, Always Accessible SMCA Aviation Computerized Maintenance
CAA Activity Address Code System
EAA Administration Acquisition Executive NCA Activity Control Number
PAA Affirmative Action Plan NCA Advance Change Notice
APAA American Association of Port Authority OCA Administrative Contracting Officer
SPAA Automated Aid Positioning System OCA Aircraft Co -ordinator
RAA After Action Report OCA Authorized Certifying Officer
ARAA Amsterdam -prewtnA -Rotterdam Area SPOCA Advisory C ommittee on Protection of
the Sea
SAA Annual Automation Control Survey
TOCA Advisory Committee on Offshore
OSAA Association of American Shipowners Technology
WAA Anti -Air Warfare PCA Agency Capital Plan
DNABA abandoned. PCA Alternate Compliance Program
CBA Activity -Based Costing PCA Area Contingency Plan
ABCI Allocated Baseline Configuration Index RCA Allowance Change Request
MCBA Activity Based Cost Managem ent SCA American Chemical Society
ABCU Automated Bridge Control System For SCA Arab Classification Society
Unattended Engine Room
A CU Air Control Unit
LBA Allocated Baseline
VCA Air Cushion Vehicle
NBA denodnabA
ADA Americans with Disabilities Act
SBA Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene
SADA Automatic Data Annotation System
SBA American Bureau of Shipping
(classification society) BDA African/Asian Development Bank
SBA Class of Vessel CDA Analog to Digital Converter
TBA About ADCCP Advanced Data Communications
Control Procedures
Maritime Acronyms and Abbreviations 2
MOCDA Address Com mission BFA Air Force Base
ddA Addendum CFA Allotment Fund Code
add'l additional. CFA Automatic Frequency Control
EDA Above -Deck Equipment CFA automatic frequency control.
CEDA Alaska Department of Environmental AFDD Accumulated Freezing -Degree Days
Conservation SPIFA American Federation of Information
FDA Automatic Direction Finding Processing Societies
©SOIDA Automated Data Inquiry for Oil Spills LFA -CIO Am erican Federation of Labor and
ADIZ Air Defense Identification Zone Congress of Industrial Organizations
ADLC Advanced Data Link C ontrol MFA Abrasive Flow Machinery
MDA Acquisition Decision Memorandum CDMFA Air Force Machinability Data Center
MDA Admiral NFA aeronautical fixed network
MDA Assistant Deputy Minister ARFA Average Freight Rate Assessment
TENDA Anti Drug Network XAMARFA A tanker of such size as to take
commercia l advantage under
CODA Air Defense Operations Center Worldscale (generally, tankers 80,000 -
TODA Active Duty Other Than Training 119,000 DWT)
PDA Ammonium Dihydrogen Phosphate CESARFA Afro Asian Organization for Economic
Co -operation
PDA Automated Data Processing
SPSFA Arrival First Sea Pilot Station (Norway)
MCPDA Adapt ive Differential Probe Code
noitaludoM NTFA aeronautical fixed telecommunications
network
LPDA Active Duty Promotion List
STFA Automated Funds Transfer S ystem
RDA Alternative Dispute Resolution
GA Accessibility Guidelines
SDA Application Development System
GA Algeria (Flag)
SDA Automated Data Systems
GA Arabian Gulf (See PG)
SDA Automated Dependance Surveillance
gA Silver
GESDA Active Duty Supplemental Education
Grants AGA American Gas Association
DA SS Automated Dependent Surveillance CGA Automatic Gain Control
System AMGA American Gear Manufacturers
WSDA -CA Active Duty Special Work in Support of Associations
Active Component LHA Australian Hold Ladders
WSDA -RC Active Duty Special Work in Support of PHA Analytic Hierarchy Process
Reserve Component
SHA unnA al Hull Survey
TDA Active Duty for Training
THA Anchor handling tug
TDA -TA Active Duty for Annual Training
STHA AHT which is also a combined supply
TDA -OTD Active D uty for Training - Other vessel
Training Duty
IA Airborne Interceptor
AEA AEA Technology Plc
IA Artificial Intelligence
BEA acquisition exclusion boundary.
AIChE American Institute of Chemical
LEA Allowance Equipage List Engineers
PEA Affirmative Employment Program PCIA Aviation Inventory Control Point
OREA aeronautical. DIA Agency for International Deve lopment
SEA Aeronautical Earth Station (USA)
SEA Atmospheric Environment Services SSGIA Annual Inert Gas System Survey
WEA Airb orne Early Warning MIA Academy Introduction Mission
FA Audio Frequency
Maritime Acronyms and Abbreviations 3
SMIA American Institute of Merchant AMCONSUL American Consulate
gnippihS dmA Amendment
UMIA American Institute of Marine YSSABMEMA American Embassy
Underwriters
GIMA Australian MAP Interest Group
PIA Aeronautical Information Publication
IMA O Alien Migrant Interdiction Operations
ATSRIA Air Station
IMMA Aviation Maintenance Management
SIA Aeronautical Inf ormation Services Information System
SIA Automated Information System INMA Associate Member of The Nautical
SIA Automatic Identification System Institute
CSIA American Institute of Steel PUSOMA Associated Marine Officers' and
Construction Seamen's Union of the Philippines
MSIA Association Internationale de PMA Aftmost Measuring Point
Signalisation Maritime (International SMA uanoreA tical Mobile Service
Association of Lighthouse Authorities).
SMA Annual Machinery Survey
TIA Autoge nous Ignition Temperature
SMA Customs' Automated Manifest System
lA Aluminum
S)R(SMA Aeronautical Mobile Satellite (Route)
aL assumed latitude. Service
al assumed longitude. ASMA Australian Maritime Safety Authority
,tlA,.lA alternating (light). SSMA Aeronautical Mobile Satellite Service
lA 2O 3 aluminum oxide (alumina) TMA Aviation Maintenance Tech nician
RAMALA Associacon Latinamericano de REVMA Automated Mutual Assistance Vessel
Armadores (Valparaiso) Rescue System
ARALA as low as reasonably achievable HSLEWMA39 Americanized Welsh Coal Charter
CLA automatic lev el control )3991(
TSAOCLA Message Traffic Intended for Service - BNA Buoy Tender
wide Distribution CNA Air Navigation Commission
ALCON All Concerned hcnA anchorage.
TSIDLA Message Traffic Intended for District - GNA Air National Guard
wide Distribution
ANGRC Air National Guard Readiness Center
ELA Automatic Link Establishment
SMNA Automated No tice to Mariners System.
LOGLA ALGorithmic Oriented Language
MRPNA Advanced Notice of Proposed
CJLA Administrative Law Judge Circular Rulemaking
PPIJLA Administrative Law Judge Internal SNA Aquatic Nuisance Species
Practices and Procedures
CSNA Auxiliary National Supply Center
ALLI Annual Load Line Inspection
ISNA American National Standards Institute
SIMLA Aviation Logistics Management
Information System OSNA Association of Naval Service Officers
TAPLA Alaskan Patrol TNA Netherlands Antilles (Flag)
TLA Administrative Lead Time AMAHTN prewtnA -Hamburg Range
ULA Arithmetic Logic Unit antilog antilogarithm.
ALU TUCP ppilihP ine Seafarers' Union OA Assignment Officer
ma amber. CDOA Association of Offshore Diving
Contractors
mA americium
IOA Area of Interest
MA amplitude modulation
OOA Area of Operations
MA ante meridian (before noon).
POA Area of Probability
BAMA Arctic Marine Advisory Board
SPOA Abstract of Operations Data System
BMA Ambassador
Maritime Acronyms and Abbreviations 4
ROA Area of Responsibility APRA Advanced Research Projects Agency
ROA -E Atlantic Ocean Region -East sAP R,AAPRA Automatic Radar Plotting Aid
ROA -W Atlantic Ocean Region -West SRA Annual Cargo Refrigeration System
UOA Area of Uncertainty Survey
PA Acquisition Plan CSRA aeronautical rescue sub -centre
PA Assumed Position. CCTRA Air Route Traffic Control Center
APA Administrative Procedure Act CITRA Abolish Red Tape in Contracting
argorP m
APA Appropriation Purchase Account
SA air supply
BPA Acquisition Project Baseline
SA Annual Survey
SICPA Asian Pacific Comp deziretu
Information System sA arsenic
DPA avalanche photodiode SA Australian Standard
CEPA Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation ASA American Standards Association
AHPA American Public Health Association ASA Applied Science Associates Limited
IPA American Petroleum Industry MASA anti -ship action message.
LPA A Programming Language PASA As Soon as Possible
LPA Allowance Parts List ABSA Association of Shipbrokers and Agents
(U.S.A.) Inc.
IRMLPA Atlantic Protected Living Marine
Resources Initiative SA BA II A Type of Standard Voyage Charter
Party Issued by ASBA
PPA Application Portability Profiles
YOVKNATABSA A Type of Standard Voyage Charter
approx. approximate, approximately. Party Issued by ASBA
SPA Acquisition Phase Summary CSA Accredited Standards Committee
SPA Arrival Pilot Station ASCII American Standard Code for
OSPA Asylum Pre -Screening Officer Information Interchange
TPA Automatically Programmed Tools MCSA Anti Ship Cruise Missile
VPA Air pressure vessel DSA Al lowable stress design
LQA Acceptab le Quality Level DSA Alternative Service Delivery
rA nogrA NAESA Association of South East Asian
Nations (Indonesia, Malaysia,
CS&RA Aircraft Repair and Supply Center
Philippines, Singapore)
ARA Antwerp, Rotterdam, Amsterdam
EESA American Society for Engineering
)egnar(
Education
GARA Amsterdam -Rotterdam -prewtnA -Gent
FSA Additional Secondary Phase Factor.
Range
FSA Asian Shipowners' Forum (East Asia
ARCC Aeronautical Rescue Co -ordination
and Oceania)
Centre
NEGSA As Generated
SCRA Admiralty Raster Chart Service (U.K.
Hydrographic Off ice) MSA Anti -Ship Missile/Air -to -Surface Missile
ERA United Arab Emirates (Flag) DMSA Anti -Ship Missile Defense
SERA Associazione Ricerca e Salvataggio EMSA American Society of Mechanical
Engineers
MRA asset recycle management
OSA Aviation Supply Office
SMRA Automated Requisitioning
Management System RPPSA Arctic Shipping Pollution Prevention
Regulations
GNRA Army National Guard
PSA R Armed Services Procurement
ARNGRC Army National Guard Readiness
Regulations
Center
RSA Automatic Send/Receive
ORA Agreement on Rules of Origin TTAG(
)4991 QERSA As Requested
Maritime Acronyms and Abbreviations 5
MSSA Anti -Surface Ship Missile AUX KW Auxiliary/Generators Kilowatts (total)
TSA Aviation Survival Technician )XA(XUA Auxiliary
MTSA American Society for Testing and SIMXUA Auxiliary Management Information
Materials System
WUSA Anti -Surface Warfare POXUA Auxiliary Operated Stations
WSA Anti -Submarine Warfare TEDRASXUA Auxiliary Search & Rescue
TA A launngniniarT Detachment
tA astatine VA Audiovisual
TA atomic time. VA DET Aviation Detachment
TA Avionics Technician PIVA Anthrax Vaccine Immunization
Program
at.wt. atomic weight
NECARTVA Aviation Training Center
PF/TA Anti -Terrorism/Force Protection
WA Air Warfare
ATA Automated Tracking Aid
SCAWA Airborne Early Warning and Command
BTA Aviation Training Boat System
CTA Affordability Through Commonality SEWA Association of Western European
(NAVSEA Program) Shipbuilders
CTA Air Traffic Contro l GWA American Wire Gauge
CTA Aviation Training Center OWA American Waterw ays Operators
ATDNSHINC Any Time Day/Night Sundays and APPWA Arctic Waters Pollution Prevention Act
Holidays Included
SWA American Welding Society
ETA Automated Test Equipment
SBXA Auxiliary Boiler Survey
atm Atmosphere, Atmospheres
SBTFXA Auxiliary Eire -Tube Boiler Survey
NTA aeronautical telecommunications
network AXWHBS Auxiliary Waste -Heat Boiler Survey
NOTA Aids to Navigation SBTWXA Auxiliary Water -Tube Boiler Survey
SINOTA Aids To Navigation Information YA Anniversary Year
Sys tem EZA Azerbaijan (Flag)
PTA Acceptance Test Plan
PTA Allied Tactical Publication B
GPTA Automatic Test Program Generator
RTA Ammunition Transaction Report b nrab
STA Air Traffic Services B atmospheric pressure correction
(altitude), bearing, bearing angle
UTA Administrative Target Unit norob
UTA Appropriation Target Unit B&I Benchmark and Improve
CTUTA Actual Time Used To Count B/L or BL Bill of Lading
WTA A irborne Tactical Workstation B/N Booking Note
UA Astronomical Unit. Ba barium
uA dloG AB Bridge Administration
IUA Access Unit Interface AB Business Analysis
SRUA Aviation Utilization to Recapitalization FAB Bunker Adjustme nt Factor
Study
OFAB Best and Final Offer
SUA Australia (Flag)
HAB Basic Allowance for Housing
PERSUA Australian Ships Reporting System.
PAB best available practice
MADOTUA Automated Damage Control
QAB Basic Allowance for Quarters
AUTODIN Automatic Digit al Network
BARD Boat Accident Reporting Data
NARTUA Automatic Utility Translator
Maritime Acronyms and Abbreviations 6
AFEESAB British Approvals Service for Electrical BHD Bulkhead
Equipment in Flammable BHN Brinell hardness
Atmospheres
BHS Bahamas (Flag)
BASIC geB inner's All purpose Symbolic
Instruction Code Bi bismuth
TAB best available technology BI Both Inclusi ve
BBB Before Breaking Bulk (i.e. before BIAC Business and Industry Advisory
discharge of cargo commences) Committee (OECD)
bbl Barrel BIB Budget in Brief
BBLS Barrels BIC Basic Instructor Course
BC Code of Safe Practice for Solid Bulk BICC Bureau International des Chambres de
Cargoes Commerce
BCCP Business Continuity Contingency Pla n BIFA British International Freight
Association
BCD Binary Coded Decimal
BIFFEX Baltic International Freight Futures
BCH Code for the Construction and Exchange ( )nodnoL
Equipment of Ships Carrying
Dangerous Chemicals in Bulk BIH Bureau Internationale de l'Heure.
BCH 23 Bulk Chemicals Sub -Committee BIIBA British Insurance and Investment
Brokers Association
BCIT British Columbia Insititute of
Technology (BCIT) BIMCO The Baltic and International Maritime
Council (Copenhagen)
BCM Bow to Center Manifold
Bimcosale The Bimco standard form of bill of sale
AEMCB British Columbia Maritime Employers
Association BINM Bureau of International Narcoti cs
Matters
BCN Billet Control Number
BIPM International Bureau of Weights and
BCOMP Buffer COMPlete Measures.
BDC buffered data channel BIS Bank for International Settlements,
BDE woleb -deck equipment (Basel)
BDI Baltic Dry Index BISCO British Iron and Steel Corporation
BDI Both Dates Inclusive BISD Basic Instruments and Selected
BDT British Dependent Territories Documents (GATT)
Bdy Mon boundary monument. BISYNC BInary SYNchronous Communications
Be beryllium BIT Built -In Test
AEB B ureau of Economic Analysis BITE Built -In Test Equipment
BECU Billion ECU Bk berkelium
BEEP Black Executive Excellence Program BK Book
BefNr Baume fNr specific gravity scale bk broken.
BEI Backscattered Electron Imaging BKI Biro Klasifikasi Indonesia (Indonesian
Class Society)
BEI Banque Europeenne d'lnvestissement
bkw breakwater.
BEL Belgium (Flag)
bl blue.
BENDS Both Ends
BL Bulgarian Lloyd (Class Society)
BER bit error rate
BLADING See B/L
Bev O ne billion electron volts; also written
BEv, or BEV BLG Subcommittee on Bulk Liquids and
Gases (IMO)
BFDR Boat and Fire Drill Regulations
BLK B ulk
BFI Baltic Freight Index (Bulk cargoes)
BLKCAR (B/C) Bulk Carrier
BFO beat frequency oscillator.
BLR Boiler
BH Belize (Flag)
Maritime Acronyms and Abbreviations 7
BLRHS Boiler Heating Surface (Combined) BRG gniraeB
BM Beam Brg. bearing (as distinguished from bearing
BM bench mark. angle).
BM Boatswain's Mate BRM Bridge Resource Manage ment
BM Boom AORB British Rig Owners Association
BM Mayanmar (Burma) (Flag) BROB Bunkers Remaining On Board
ALMB British Maritime Law Association BRPSU Battle Roster Port Security Unit
BMP Best Manufacturing Practices (U.S. BRR Boating Restriction Regulations
Navy Program) BS Boiler Survey
TMB MB T Marine Information Systems BS British Standard
Limited BS&W See S&W
BMU Bermuda (Flag) BSC Binary Synchronous Communications
Bn beacon. BSC British Shippers Council
BNI Bureau d'Orientation de la BSI British Standards Institution
Normalisatin en Informatique
BSS Basis
BNM Broadcast Notice to Mariners
BSS 1/1 Basis 1 Port to 1 Port
BNTM Broadcast Notice to Mariners
BST Builder's Sea Trials
BO Boarding Officer
BT Berth Terms
TLATAOB Boat Alteration
BT woBretsurhT
BOB Bunkers on Boa rd
BT Break Transmission
BOD Biological Oxygen Demand
MTB gnidraoB maeTrebmeM
BOD Board of Directors
MTB Bottom
BOFFER Best Offer
BTS Bureau of Transportation Statistics
BOP Blow Out Preventer
Btu British Therma l Unit – 0.252 kcal
BOPEC Bonaire Petroleum Corporation N.V.
bu blue.
BORCO Bahamas Oil Refining Corp.
BURRIER Airline Drug Smuggler (Peru)
BOSS Boat Outfit and System Support
BUSL Stern Loading Buoy Boat
AVSOB British Offshore Support Vessel
Owners Assoc iation BV Bureau Veritas
BOTB British Overseas Trade Board BVI British Virgin Islands
)nodnoL( BVS Berggewerkschafitliche
BP Business Plan Versuchsstrecke (Germany)
APB Blanket Purchase Agreement BW Biological Warfare
Bpgc bearing per gyrocompass. BWAD Brackish Water Arrival Draft
BPI Baltic Panamax Index BWI aoB ting While Intoxicated
BPR Business Process Redesign BWM Ballast Water Management
BPR Business Process Review BWT Breakwater Vessel
bps bits per second YB Budget Year
BPSK binary phase shift k eying BZ Bravo Zulu
BR Brazil (Flag)
BR Brazilian Class Society C
br breakers.
C Celsius (centigrade); chronometer
Br bromine time; compass (direction); correction;
BRAC Base Realignment and Closure course, course angle; can; cylindrical;
BRD By -Catch Reduction Device cove, coverage factor
BRF Best Replacement Factor
Maritime Acronyms and Abbreviations 8
C Coulomb, Car bon, or coefficient of IAC Computer -Assisted Instruction
discharge, dimensionless CAIRO Consult ed, Approves, Informed,
C Center (CNTR) Responsible, Not Involved or No Role
C&E Customs and Excise (British) AEJAC Council of All Japanese Exporters'
C&F Cost, Insurance & Freight Association
C&F FO Cost and Freight Free Out cal calorie
c.ft./cuft Cubic Feet (ft 3) LAC Computer Aided Learning or
Conversional Algebraic Language
C/B Cost/Benefit cal/cm 3 calorie per cubic centimeter
C/C cabin cruiser cal/in 3 calories per cubic inc h
C/P (CP) Charterparty or Charter Party
MLAC catenary anchor leg mooring.
C/S call sign
SMLAC Combined Allowance for Logistics and
C/V Consecutive Voyage Maintenance Support
C2 Command and Control SLAC Continuous Acquisition Life -Cycle
C2CEN Command and Control Engineering Support
Center MAC Computer Aided Manufacturing
C2PC Command and Control Personal MAC Computer Assisted Manufacture
Computer
CAMAC Computer Automated Measurement
C3I Command, Control, Communications, And Co ntrol
and Intelligence
PMAC Competitive Acquisition Management
C4 Command, Control, Communications, lenaP
and Comput ers
SMAC Communications Area Master Station
C4I Command, Control, Communications,
Computers, and Intelligence PARTMAC Canadian Arctic Marine Transportation
Advisory Panel
C4ISR Command, Control, Communications,
Computers, Intelligence, Sensors, and CANDEL Canadian Deleqation
Reconnaissance CARTNAC Catalog of Navy Training Courses
Ca calcium CAODC Canadian Association of Oil W ell
AC Center Aft Drilling Contractors
AC Competition Advocate PAC Civil Air Patrol
AC constant amplitude PAC Combat Air Patrol
AC Controlled Atmosphe re PAC Condition Assesment Programme
Survey
AAC Commander, Atlantic Area
PAC Condition Assessment Program
ECAAC Comite des Associations d'Armateurs
de la Communaute Europeenne (EU, EZISEPAC Bulk Carrier 100,000 -180,000 DWT
Brussel) NAMPAC Capabilities Manual
BAC Civilian Advisory Board ORPAC Canadian Association of Professional
CAC Canadian Advisory Council Ra dio Operators
CAC Citizens Advisory Council sPAC Central Alerting Posts
CAC command -dna -control (regulation) TPAC Captain
MCAC Central Am erican Common Market RAC Computer -Aided Repair
DAC Computer Aided Design CARAC Canadian Aviation Regulation
Advisory Council
DAC Computer Assisted Design
CARICOM Caribbean Common Market and
MAC/DAC Computer Aided Design/Computer Community
Aided Manufacturing
TRAC Concept analysis and Review Team
EAC Computer Aided Engineering
SAC Combined Antenna System
EGAC Commercial and Government Entity
Code SAC Conditi on Assessment Survey