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• Deadweight capacity

  Difference between a ship's light displacement and her loaded displacement. Maximum loading capacity allowed by international safety rules.

• Deep Sea

  Trans-oceanic shipping routes.

• Demurrage

  Fixed sum, per day, to be paid by the charterer to the owner for the detention of a vessel under charter upon expiry of laydays.

• Despatch Money

  CURSORPremium paid by the shipowner for time saved while loading or discharging a chartered ship.

• Direct transhipment

  Loading of goods from one means of conveyance to another without landing said goods.

• Docker

  Dockers are professional workers specialised in loading and unloading goods on board ships. Since the law of 9 June 1992 supplemented by the local agreement of 10 July 1992 and its amendments, dockers have been governed by common labour law and are therefore permanent employees of stevedoring companies under the authority of the company manager.
  NB: Dockers were previously governed by the 1947 law and were normally hired as casual day workers for shifts of 4 or 8 hours.

• Dolphin

  Wooden or steel pipe or concrete block anchored on the bottom of docks or seaways, and to which a ship may be moored or hauled taut.

• Door to Door

  Term covering the transportation of goods from the sender's premises to the receiver's premises.
  

• Draught / Draft

  The depth of a vessel below the waterline to the lowest part of the hull.