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The International Maritime Dictionary - IMD* is a Maritime English Dictionary on navigation, engineering, safety, communication, inland navigation, chartering, insurance and logistics. it is part of the International Maritime Language Programme - IMLP.

 

The IMD provides translations of English maritime-related idioms and expressions into the  languages most frequently used in international seafaring and inland navigation: Filipino, Spanish, Chinese, Russian Arabic, French, German, Polish, Romanian and Croatian. 

You can use the search application in your Windows-, IOS- or Android system and use the IMD as a bilingual lexicon.                                                        .

 

The IMD holds a separate “pictionary”,  i.e. a dictionary on tools and devices, that explains the English names by means of pictures. The IMD also has separate sections on abbreviations and weights, volumes and measures.

 

Available free versions of the International Maritime Dictionary are:

ENGLISH - ARABIC

ENGLISH - CHINESE

ENGLISH – CROATIAN

ENGLISH – FILIPINO

ENGLISH - FRENCH

ENGLISH - GERMAN

ENGLISH - POLISH

ENGLISH - ROMANIAN

ENGLISH - RUSSIAN

ENGLISH - SPANISH

 

PICTIONARY

ABBREVIATIONS

WEIGHTS, VOLUMES AND MEASURES

 

The authors and their maritime institutes that have been involved in the construction of the IMD are:                                                                                                     

Peter C. van Kluijven – STC-GROUP - Maritime University of Applied Sciences Rotterdam Netherlands

Ghada Hozayen – The Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport – Alexandria – Egypt

Weihua Luo and Daming Tong – Dalian Maritime University – China 

Mirjana Borucinsky and Sandra Tominac - University of Rijeka, Croatia 

Jane Magalon - Maritime Academy of Asia and the Pacific - Philippines 

Alain Brillault, Ecole Nationale de la Marine Marchande de Nantes, France

Prof. Peter Trenkner, chairman of the IMLA-IMEC Steering Committee

Halina Gajewska and Janusz Klosinski - Maritime University of Szczecin, Poland

Carmen Chirea-Ungureanu and Ioana Raluca Visan - Constanta Maritime University, Romania. 

Olesya Lutsenko – De Ruyter Maritime Institute, University of Applied Science – Flushing – Netherlands 

Asunción Belliure – Maritime Vocational School – Palma de Mallorca – Spain.

                       

* The IMD originates from the Dutch bi-lingual Lexicon Scheepvaart & Transport (Shipping and Transport), which is not available as part of the IMD. Click here to access the Lexicon website.                                                                                                                                     

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