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container ship

NOUN
  1. a cargo ship designed to hold containerized cargoes
    the weight of the documentation of all the consignments on board a contemporary container ship can exceed 90 pounds

How To Use container ship In A Sentence

  • The most important of the trends is that container ships have gotten bigger.
  • The logistical snafu was ultimately solved by Sea-Land, which converted Cam Ranh Bay into a containerport and soon had six container ships running between the West Coast and Vietnam. Shipping News
  • The Digicel crew were picked up from their life raft by an eastbound container ship called the Hispania Spirit. Rowing the ATLANTIC
  • Bridges, tunnels, scows, tugs, graving docks, container ships, all the great works of transport, trade and linkage were directed in the end to this culminating structure. Underworld
  • It is baled, packed into containers, and trucked 10 minutes away to the Port of Long Beach, where it is loaded onto container ships headed for China. Scrappy Collectors Profit From China's Paper Needs
  • This is by far the largest container ship presently calling at any Northern Ireland port.
  • the weight of the documentation of all the consignments on board a contemporary container ship can exceed 90 pounds
  • If you go back to 1982 we saw some incredible feats of 'getting things done' for example airborne early warning Sea King, containerised sea wolf, the overall logistic effort in assembling the task force, turning container ships into half carriers and a myriad of other feats of the unbelievableAre we actually capable of doing anything quickly these days given over regulation and all round 'leanness' Army Rumour Service
  • Argyll has challenged 150 ships in all, and boardings varied from small dhows to large container ships.
  • Severe weather has sunk more than 200 supertankers and container ships exceeding 200 metres in length during the last two decades.
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