The International Maritime Dictionary IMD is a Maritime English Dictionary about navigation, engineering, safety, communication, inland navigation, chartering, insurance and logistics. The IMD provides translations of English maritime-related idioms and expressions into the five languages most frequently used in the international seafaring world: 

Filipino, Spanish, Chinese, Russian and Arabic.

In the world of international logistics it will form a new and formidable tool that will enhance the quality of communication and safety in the maritime industry, particularly for shipboard practices on board vessels that have multi-lingual crews.

The IMD holds a separate pictionary, i.e. a dictionary on tools and devices that explains the English names by means of pictures. The book also has a separate section on abbreviations.



The book is the outcome of an international project, initiated at the IMLA-IMEC Conference of 2009 at the Maritime University of Szczecin, and is the result of a cooperation of lecturers of some of the worlds leading Maritime Institutes.