CHARTERING AND BROKERAGE 2026 LATEST UPDATED
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Dry bulk carriers classification: Handymax - ✔✔35K - 45K
✔✔Dry bulk carriers classification: Handy - ✔✔20K - 35K
✔✔WLTHC - ✔✔Waterline to top of hatch coaming
✔✔Draft survey - ✔✔before start of loading, gauge all tanks and draft marks to estimate
displacement. At end, gauge each tank and draft to find final displacement. The
difference is the "Cargo Tonnage" on the Bill of Lading
✔✔CPP/DPP - ✔✔Clean petroleum product / Dirty petroleum product
✔✔Lay days - ✔✔load window
✔✔Voyage estimate: - ✔✔o $ Cost for Voyage / Mountain Tons = Voyage Estimate
($/MT=VE)
✔✔Displacement - ✔✔Amount of tons at water at summer salt water
✔✔Light ship - ✔✔Just the metal of the ship
✔✔Dead weight / Deadweight all told - ✔✔DWT / DWAT
✔✔ABCs - ✔✔Anything but cargo
✔✔Deadweight cargo capacity - ✔✔DWCC
Amount that can be loaded by weight
✔✔TPI - ✔✔Tons per 1 inch immersion
✔✔Grain cubic - ✔✔All available space for cargo
✔✔Bale cubic - ✔✔all available space minus the space where cargo cannot be stored
✔✔Stow factor: Grain - ✔✔60cuFt/LT
✔✔Stow factor: Iron ore - ✔✔10-12cuFt/LT
✔✔FIO - ✔✔Free in/out
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Dry bulk carriers classification: Handymax - ✔✔35K - 45K
✔✔Dry bulk carriers classification: Handy - ✔✔20K - 35K
✔✔WLTHC - ✔✔Waterline to top of hatch coaming
✔✔Draft survey - ✔✔before start of loading, gauge all tanks and draft marks to estimate
displacement. At end, gauge each tank and draft to find final displacement. The
difference is the "Cargo Tonnage" on the Bill of Lading
✔✔CPP/DPP - ✔✔Clean petroleum product / Dirty petroleum product
✔✔Lay days - ✔✔load window
✔✔Voyage estimate: - ✔✔o $ Cost for Voyage / Mountain Tons = Voyage Estimate
($/MT=VE)
✔✔Displacement - ✔✔Amount of tons at water at summer salt water
✔✔Light ship - ✔✔Just the metal of the ship
✔✔Dead weight / Deadweight all told - ✔✔DWT / DWAT
✔✔ABCs - ✔✔Anything but cargo
✔✔Deadweight cargo capacity - ✔✔DWCC
Amount that can be loaded by weight
✔✔TPI - ✔✔Tons per 1 inch immersion
✔✔Grain cubic - ✔✔All available space for cargo
✔✔Bale cubic - ✔✔all available space minus the space where cargo cannot be stored
✔✔Stow factor: Grain - ✔✔60cuFt/LT
✔✔Stow factor: Iron ore - ✔✔10-12cuFt/LT
✔✔FIO - ✔✔Free in/out