shipping agent

noun

a person or company whose business is to prepare shipping documents, arrange shipping space and insurance, and deal with customs requirements

Osgood had become little more than its manufacturer, shipping-agent, and accountant.

For some weeks a German down in Monaco, a shipping agent, has had a yacht in the harbour for hire.

August Strindberg was born in 1849, the son of a msalliance between a shipping agent and a servant girl.

Nestor: It is more likely he will get it consigned to the shipping agent.

His English, which he had learned as a shipping agent for the pilgrim traffic, soon reached its narrow limits, to my sorrow.

April 20, 2024flabbergast

[flab-er-gast ]

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