ship-broker

noun

1. a person who acts for a shipowner by getting cargo and passengers for his ships and also handling insurance and other matters

Example Sentences

The son of a ship-broker and heir to a fortune worth some $16 million, according to business magazine Kapital, Stoere’s elite background was once deemed an obstacle to his ambition to lead a party rooted in the struggle for workers’ rights.

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Messengers were sent down to Plymouth, his friends having later acquired some clue to his movements, and an influential ship-broker in the town was employed to intercept his flight should he attempt to sail thence.

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When he was still a boy, his father, who had made a large fortune as a ship-broker, met with a series of misfortunes, and L�on, before completing his education, had to go to sea in order to earn a living.

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With the triumph of Juarez, peace settled for a time upon the western hemisphere, and Ward, finding no market for his military talents, was driven by financial necessities to take up the occupation of a ship-broker in New York City.

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"Do you wish to be taken on board his craft?" asked a kind of ship-broker, hearing that Uros was asking about the Greek captain.

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