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:
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.
