container ship

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[kuhn-tey-ner ship]

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noun

Transportation.

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.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of container ship¹

First recorded in 1955–60

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So you can imagine the appeal of the possibility of becoming the first European port of call for masses of container ships from Asia, depending on how fast the polar ice continues to melt.

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The watch officer of a large container ship that ran aground and crashed into a garden in Norway has told police he was asleep at the time of the incident.

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A man in Norway woke up to find a huge container ship had run aground and crashed into his front garden.

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Global markets are rising again, and container ships can set sail across the Pacific.

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Over the three-day period ending Sunday, 10 container ships are expected at the Port of Los Angeles.

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containerport containment

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