Glossary of Sec. 2: Definition of Terms

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"Ad valorem rate": rate based upon the value of the goods.
"Anchorage": a place with sufficient depth of water where vessels anchor or may ride at anchor within the harbor.
"Approaches": the water area at the port entrance via which vessels navigate to make for the sheltered or protected water areas in the port.
"Apron": the area between the transit shed and quaywall.
"Authority": the Philippine Ports Authority created by P.D. 505 dated July 11, 1974, as amended by substitution by P.D. 857 dated December 23, 1975.
"Bad Order Container": container that is physically damaged which may allow exposure of cargoes to adverse conditions, natural elements and pilferages.
"Berth": the part of the pier/wharf that is occupied by a vessel, or a place where a vessel may tie up.
"Berthing": the maneuvering of a vessel from the anchorage or pilot station to a berth, including the action to make fast the vessel alongside.
"Bill of Lading": the written contract of carriage of goods whereby the common carrier for a consideration agrees to deliver on behalf of the consignor of goods to the consignee at a specified time.
"Bollard": a strong post on a ship or dock for holding a hawser fast.
"Bow": the extreme forward end of a vessel.
"Bullion": ingot of gold or silver regarded as raw material.
"Buoy": floating object moored to the bottom to mark a channel, anchor, shoal, rock, etc.
"Channel": a natural or artificial waterway of perceptible extent which either periodically or continuously contains moving water or which forms a connecting link between two bodies of water, or part of a body of water deep enough to be used for navigation through the area otherwise too low for navigation.
"Chassis": equipment used to carry containers from one place to another under the tow by prime movers or tractors as an extension of ship's gear unless declared as an importation.

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"Container": a structure so designed to hold and keep articles, materials and products together inside a hold in the form of boxes, tanks, or the dike, for singular or unit handling and transport, generally, having an internal volume or capacity of not less than not less than 1\mathrm{m^3}. Containers are further defined according to their uses as dry cargo, refrigerated, liquid bulk, platform, open top, solid bulk, ventilated, etc.
"Container Berth": berthing space especially designed and constructed to accommodate containerships.
"Containerized/Container Cargoes": cargoes packed in containers for easy handling or transporting of the same as a unit.
"Container Equipment Receipt": shipping receipt issued by container operators, agents, or shipping companies relative to bringing in and taking out of containers in the Port/Customs Zone. This document (IN/OUT) shows, among others, the inspections conducted on the container at the time of receipt and, at delivery.
"Container Freight Station": normally a warehouse or a transit shed adjacent to the Container Yard (CY) used for sorting and storage of container cargo both for import and export.
"Containership": a cargo vessel designed and constructed primarily to carry containers.
"Container Tally Sheet": cargo receipt issued by the ship's checker or agent and acknowledged by the arrastre's checker as evidence or receipt of containers. It indicates, among others, the physical condition of the container.
"Container Terminal": a port facility designed to provide an integrated use of berthing facilities for containership and harbor transport system for containers and their contents.
"Container Yard": a designated area in a Container Terminal usually adjacent to the Marshalling Yard (MY) where containers and chassis are received, stacked and dispatched.
"Control Tower": a signal station generally located at a place which commands a full view of the Container Terminal. It supervises by signals, telephones or other means of communicating the movements, stacking and handling of containers in the terminal.
"Conventional Ship": a cargo vessel designed and constructed primarily to carry break-bulk and limited quantity.
"Deck": a platform or roof over which a section of a ship holds, serving as a floor.
"Dock": includes locks, cuts, entrances, graving docks, inclined planes, slipways, quays, and other works and things appertaining to any dock.
"Dolphin": a buoy or spar used in mooring a boat.
"Draft": the depth/level of the vessel below the water line, measured vertically from this water line to the lowest part of the hull.
"Drydock": a dock from which the water can be temporarily excluded, in order to effect repairs to hulls and keels of ships or vessels.
"Dues": harbor fees, tonnage and wharfage dues, berthing charges, and port dues and any other dues or fees imposed by virtue of existing law or Decree 857.
"Dunnage": a loose packing of any bulky material put around cargo for protection.
"Excreta": waste matter excreted from the body, as sweat or urine or feces.
"Fairway": part of a waterway kept open and unobstructed for navigation.
"Fender": a pad or cushion of rope, wood, etc. hung over a ship's side to protect it in docking.
"Filth": a foul dirt or disgusting matter.
"Full Container Load": a container loaded with cargoes belonging to a single consignee and/or covered by only one Bill of Lading.
"Funnel": a cylindrical chimney or smoke stack.
"Gang": the number of workers employed to work.
"Goods": includes animals, carcasses, baggage, and any movable property of any kind.
"Grit": rough, hard particles of sand, stone, etc.
"Harbor": a protected part of a sea, lake or other body of water used by vessels as a place of safety.

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"Hatch": an opening in ship's deck through which cargo can be lowered.
"Lash Barge": a barge or lighter which for all intents and purposes is, at, extension of the ship's equipment or gears and used purely in such ship's cargo operations.
"Lash Ship": a vessel designed and constructed to carry lash barges as containers of cargoes.
"Latrine": a toilet, or privy for the use of many people.
"Length over all": the length of a vessel between the extreme end of the bow and the extreme end of the stern.
"Less Container Load": container loaded with cargoes belonging to more than one consignee and/or covered by more than one bills of lading.
"Lift-Off Containership/Non-Sustaining": a containership especially designed and constructed to carry containers but not provided with ship's gears to handle them.
"Lift-On Containership/Self-Sustaining": a containership especially designed and constructed to carry containers. It is provided with gears like ship's deck crane and the like and is capable of loading and discharging containers by itself.
"Marshalling Yard": a place where containers are stacked and arranged according to the sequence of withdrawal to consignee or transferred to CY-CFS or CY inside Port/Customs Zone. It is also where the containers are arranged prior to loading to a carrying vessel in accordance with the sequence of loading on the storage plan.
"Moor": to secure a vessel alongside the berth by means of mooring ropes.
"Nuisance per accidens": a nuisance under certain circumstances like a factory emitting smoke in a residential district.
"Packing or Stuffing": loading of cargoes inside a container.
"Pier": a structure built into the sea but not parallel to the coast line and includes any stage, stair, landing place, landing stage, jetty, floating barge or pontoon, and any bridge or other works connected therewith.
"Port": a place where ships may anchor or tie up for the purpose of shelter, repair, loading or discharge of cargo, or for other such activities connected with water-borne commerce, and including all the land and water areas and the structures, equipment and facilities related to these functions.
"Port District": the territorial jurisdiction under the control, supervision or ownership of the authority over an area (land or water), declared as such in accordance with Section 5 of P.D. 857 including but not limited to any Port within said District.
"Rates": any rates or charges including any toll or rent under existing law or imposed by the Authority by virtue of P.D. 857 for facilities used or services rendered.
"Refuse": anything thrown away or rejected as worthless, waste, trash.
"Rigging": the fitting of a ship's sails or shrouds to the mast or yard.
"Roll-On/Roll-Off Containership": containership especially designed and constructed to carry containers and chassis and allows loading and unloading of containers on chassis or trailers by providing a ramp over the side, at the bow or at the stern.
"Rubbish": waste, trash.
"Semi-Containership/Comboship": cargo vessels designed and constructed to carry at least 50\% of its load in containers.
"Shipper's Load and Count": a container packed with cargo by one shipper where the quantity, description and conditions of the cargo is the sole responsibility of the shipper.
"Ship stores": includes ship gears, equipment, parts or its properties not being goods or merchandise.
"Soot": black substance consisting chiefly of carbon particles formed by the incomplete combustion of burning matter.
"Stern": the extreme aft end of a vessel.
"Stripping": unloading goods from a container.
"Stuffing": loading goods into a container.
"Terminal Facility": includes the seaport and its facilities of wharves, piers, slips, docks, drydocks, bulkheads, basins, warehouses, cold storage, and loading or unloading equipment.

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"Transit Shed": a building or shed which is situated at or near a quay, wharf or pier, and is used for the temporary or short-term storage of goods in transit, or to be shipped or discharged from a vessel.
"Trimming": the placing of sails or balancing of a ship by shifting cargo, etc.
"Unfit for Use Container": refrigerated container or reefer container whose cooling machinery is not functioning normally. Dry cargo containers intended for packing is declared unfit for use if the standards of cleanliness and/or sanitation are not satisfied. It shall be certified by competent authority or any agency duly licensed or authorized to clean, fumigate and sanitize.
"Unpacking or Stripping": removing or unloading of cargoes from a container.
"Vermin": any troublesome, filthy or destructive animals.
"Vessel": includes any ship or boat, or any description of a vessel or boat, or any artificial contrivance used or capable of being used as a means of transportation, on water.
"Warehouse": a building or shed used for the storage of cargo.
"Wharf": a continuous structure built into or along the margin of the sea or alongside riverbanks, canals, or waterways where vessels may lie alongside to receive or discharge cargo, embark or disembark passengers, or lie at rest.
"Winchman": the one who operates a lifting machinery or device on the deck of a ship to hoist or lower cargo.