container ship

Or con·tain·er·ship

[kuhn-tey-ner ship]

noun

Transportation.

1. 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.

Word History and Origins

Origin of container ship¹

First recorded in 1955–60

Example Sentences

The newest and largest container ships are also the most environmentally friendly, he said.

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In May it was widely reported that a container ship called MSC Antonia had run aground in the Red Sea after a suspected GPS spoofing attack.

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The drug is usually shipped in large container ships to European ports like Rotterdam and Antwerp.

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So you can imagine the appeal of the possibility of becoming the first European port of call for masses of container ships from Asia, depending on how fast the polar ice continues to melt.

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The watch officer of a large container ship that ran aground and crashed into a garden in Norway has told police he was asleep at the time of the incident.

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