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

An electrical fire was reported below deck of the 1,100-foot container ship 1 Henry Hudson at 6:38 p.m., according to the Los Angeles Fire Department.

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Prosecutors say he also arranged for the goods to be transported to Lebanon - where the group is based - either by container ship from ports in Hamburg or Spain or by air freight.

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TEU is a measurement used to describe cargo capacity for container ships and terminals.

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For a typical container ship, that meant several million dollars in annual charges — enough to offset the unfair advantage created by Chinese subsidies without throttling trade.

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However, Mr Pöntynen added that it would be difficult fitting the rotors to container ships which use every available space.

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