overstow

present singular third person overstows · participle present overstowing · participle past overstowed · past overstowed

1. usuallyTo stow on top of one another.

   A preferred stow is to level in lower hold spaces and overstow by other suitable cargoes.

   2006, David House, Cargo Work

plural overstows

1. countableuncountableThe act of stowing cargo on top of other cargo.

   The type of overstow described above is the most common type of overstow fault.

   1988, Prototype Expert System to Provide Decision Support for Stowage Planning. Technical Report

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   A two stage approach was developed: in the first stage two objective functions were considered, one to minimize the number of bays packed by containers and the other to minimize the number of overstows.

   2015, João Paulo Almeida, Jose Fernando Oliveira, Alberto Adrego Pinto, Operational Research: IO 2013 - XVI Congress of APDIO, Bragança, Portugal, June 3-5, 2013

   Synonyms: overstowage