shipowners
Vessel title holders
People or companies that own ships, typically commercial vessels used for transporting cargo or passengers.
Shipowners may operate their vessels directly or lease them to others.
The term appears most often in maritime law, insurance, and shipping industry contexts: The shipowners were held liable for the oil spill.
Vehicles under unified command
- vesselsCarriers or containers
- cargoTransported goods
- freightGoods being transported
- charterFounding organizational document
tonnage · maritime · trade · contracts · liability · insurance · brokers · tankers
Those who conduct commerce
- tycoonsPowerful business leaders
- magnatesWealthy, powerful industrialists
- dynastiesSuccessive rulers from one family
- trading companiesBusinesses conducting commerce
East India · sailing vessels · colonial · transatlantic · fortunes · families · ports · warehouses
Formal recording of participation
- liabilityLegal or financial obligation
- admiraltyLaw of the seas
- maritime lawLegal rules for seas
- incorporationForming a legal entity
liens · mortgages · salvage · indemnity · compliance · regulations · certification · documentation
Working team aboard
- seafarersThose who travel oceans
- wagesPayment for work
- unionsCombinations or confederations
- manningSupplying workers for
employment · captain · officers · ratings · collective bargaining · working conditions · repatriation · contracts
fleet
Vehicles under unified command
charter · tonnage · maritime · trade · contracts · liability · insurance · brokers · tankers · liner
merchants
Those who conduct commerce
- tycoonsPowerful business leaders
- magnatesWealthy, powerful industrialists
- dynastiesSuccessive rulers from one family
trading companies · East India · sailing vessels · colonial · transatlantic · fortunes · families · ports · warehouses · merchant princes
registration
Formal recording of participation
- liabilityLegal or financial obligation
- admiraltyLaw of the seas
- maritime lawLegal rules for seas
incorporation · liens · mortgages · salvage · indemnity · compliance · regulations · certification · documentation · title
crew
Working team aboard
manning · employment · captain · officers · ratings · collective bargaining · working conditions · repatriation · contracts · shore leave
- Dutch Shippingmerchant fleet, Dutch East India Company, VOC, cargo vessels, tankers
- Greek merchants
- biographiesbiography, biographies, autobiography, autobiographies, memoir
- Dutch tradersVOC, Dutch East India Company
- slaversslave traders, slaveholders, enslavers, traffickers, slave catchers