WordNet
n. conveyance provided by the ships belonging to one country or industry [syn: shipping, merchant marine, merchant vessels]
Usage examples of "cargo ships".
The trade in melange had increased exponentially as its use spread throughout the League, and each spice run practically paid the entire cost of one of the spacefolder cargo ships.
She knew that civ cargo ships rotated that, if they were too small to have a permanent crew.
Similarly a Transport Control would take over the world's shipyards and turn them away from warships to manufacturing steel cargo ships.
Arash's force stood by while supplies were moved from the cargo ships to those keeping station.
Arashs force stood by while supplies were moved from the cargo ships to those keeping station.
Next, an armada of cargo ships, disguised as Allied merchant vessels, and a fleet of huge U-boats, built not for warfare but to transport large cargoes, began moving men, equipment, and supplies to the area of the ancient civilization they thought might be Atlantis.
Both of the Chinese cargo ships Gunn had observed the evening before had slipped out during the night.
Sunshine was well armed as cargo ships went: one gun on each major axis and two forward, all of them plasma-cartridge ejectors with self-feed and self-clean.
Ace Azzameen is transferred to the CRS 'Liberty', which is investigating a strange rash of attacks on civilian and Rebel cargo ships in the Vilonis Sector.