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The Collaborative International Dictionary
container ship

container ship \container ship\, containership \containership\n. a ship designed to hold containerized cargoes.

Wiktionary
container ship

alt. (context nautical English) A cargo vessel designed to carry cargo prepacked into containers n. (context nautical English) A cargo vessel designed to carry cargo prepacked into containers

WordNet
container ship

n. 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" [syn: containership, container vessel]

Usage examples of "container ship".

Bock had found a ship heading to the right port, eliminating the need to transship at Rotterdam Qati disliked deviation from the plan, but a careful check of shipping schedules showed that the five days saved might be important, and he agreed to it He and Ghosn watched the gantry crane lift up the cargo container and move it onto the deck of the Carmen Vita, a Greek-flag container ship on the Mediterranean run She would sail on the evening tide, and arrive in the United States in eleven days They could have chartered a )et aircraft and done this, Qati thought, but it would have been too dangerous.

Now, from this, a strike package was assembled to go after one of the Red Chinese container ship groups, the one off to their southwest that had attacked them this morning.

Two years ago she signed on as a cook with Qin Shang Maritime and has since crewed on a container ship called the Sung Lien Star.

We met Ian's party by the yachts, and he was babbling on about a building big enough to drive a container ship into, and these hoists that ran on variable tracks on the ceiling that unloaded and reloaded the thing in a half hour.

A container ship, the General Bravo, carrying supplies and oil-drilling equipment to San Pablo.

They were very close to the lifeless ship now, and from the bridge wing of the big container ship, Captain Kelsey could look straight down on her decks.

One run I'd be captain of five, the next I'd be pulling maintenance programming on some damn container ship.