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container ship
[ kuhn-tey-ner ship ]
noun
- a large ship that transports its cargo in truck-size containers that can be transferred from ship to train to truck without unloading and reloading the contents:
Container ships may be a common sight today, but the arrival of the first American ones in European ports made headlines in the shipping journals of the time.
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of container ship1
Example Sentences
Over the three-day period ending Sunday, 10 container ships are expected at the Port of Los Angeles.
For affected bulk vessels, the fee will be based on the weight of their cargo, while the charge for container ships will depend on how many containers a vessel is carrying.
He pointed to the example of the Ever Given container ship, which was hit by a gust of wind in the Suez Canal in 2021 and got wedged sideways between the canal banks.
The owners of a container ship have filed a legal claim against the owners of a tanker that it struck in a crash in the North Sea.
“The impact force with these very large container ships is huge,” Dowell said.
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