WordNet
n. the office of a shipping agent; an office where seamen are hired
Usage examples of "shipping office".
Martin would never keep anything that valuable at the shipping office.
Nathan had obviously turned Caine's study into a secondary shipping office.
I pulled up next to a large American dock, left the car, climbed up the stairs to a shipping office, and asked where I could find the Federated dock.
Mavra Chang lounged around the shipping office trying to look bored, but deep inside her she felt almost like a little girl expecting the arrival of a favorite uncle but afraid at the same time that the uncle might have forgotten her.
Chance had found him in England at the outbreak of war, instead of clerking in a shipping office in Sydney: his commission in the Volunteer Reserve was undeniable: the rest had been easy -an anti-submarine course, an interview in London, and the job of First Lieutenant in Compass Rose.
Her uncle Ian had gone to the shipping office to arrange her passage to America, leaving her cousin Jamie to choose a servant to accompany her on the journey.
Alexandra Malakos had been a statuesque dark-haired beauty working in the shipping office owned by her father, Gregory Malakos.