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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 containership In A Sentence
- The results based on deal of calculation with computers are used to analyse block coefficient of containership.
- Washington I founded and ran a containership service during the 1980s and '90s, selling the company in 2002. Let's Employ Talented Americans Before Foreigners
- Germany is currently seeking to extradite several alleged Somali pirates from the Netherlands for attacking a German containership in April, and alleged Somali pirates are waiting trial in France and Spain. Somali Pirates Face Trial in Dutch Court
- Floating cranes are used to load and unload non-self-sustaining containerships at ports that do not have gantry cranes.
- Investigators are questioning (ph) crew members of the containership about the crash into the Bay Bridge last week that spilled 58,000 gallons of heavy-duty oil. CNN Transcript Nov 12, 2007
- ABBI TATTON, CNN INTERNET REPORTER: The call came from on board a containership where the couple say they are being held. CNN Transcript Oct 29, 2009
- Typically, port operators are able to load as many as 600 containers onto a single containership.
- Pirates tried and failed to hijack an American containership off Africa's east coast today. CNN Transcript Nov 18, 2009
- The past decade has seen some significant changes in the ownership of the world containership fleet and the time charter component has become increasingly important.
- Liner shipping companies that use containership operators like Box Ships started returning to profitability last year, and orders for new containerships have declined, reducing industry capacity. Zipcar Pops in Debut; McDonald's Franchisee Jumps