What is "container ships"

Usage examples of "container ships".

Six huge container ships had been moved off the Dhahran quay to make room for Bob Hope and her sisters, and now three tugs each appeared to move them alongside.

There were also massive container ships wearing the flags of ten nations, and even a multilevel sheep carrier which looked like a big-city parking garage, which was bringing in live mutton from Australia.

The Port of Sungari consisted of over one million square feet of warehouse space, two grain elevators with loading slips, a six-hundred-thousand-barrel-capacity liquid bulk terminal and three general-cargo handling terminals that could load and unload twenty container ships at one time.

Moored off the wharf in the James River were two container ships, the Euroclip and the Sirius, each almost twice as long as a football field.

The harbor, accustomed to handling two billion dollars' worth of cargo annually, was busy with container ships, tankers, freighters, trawlers, and tugboats.

An Italian who owned a fleet of container ships shrugged unemotionally.

The first ships in were the big Ro/Ros, the roll-on/roll-off container ships.

Cind said, as she jockeyed the phony barge away from the pack of container ships closing on the yawning main depot bay.

He sleeps to the smell of diesel exhaust because the traffic conditions of Manila require that the container ships load and unload only at night.

Some were car carriers, more were conventional container ships, with seamanlike lines to slice through the waves as they plied their commerce on the seas.

It overlooked the quiet waters of the bay, where the running lights of container ships flickered in the moving air.

Three large container ships were moored dockside, stretching through to the neighbouring wharves.

But the containers had no accessible hatchesone advantage of container ships was supposed to be the impossibility of petty pilfering by crewsso they had no idea that the container in Hold 5 which was supposed to be filled with 5832 cube players was actually full of arms stolen from a Fleet stockpile.

Cecelia didnt think two or three or four container ships would be traveling in close convoy, but farther down the list, item 8 gave her pause: Flotilla or wave of military vessels with aggregate mass as above, traveling in close convoy.

This was as opposed to the use of the many COSCO container ships visiting American ports back in those years that had delivered other Chinese é.