container ship
noun
variants
or less commonly containership
: a ship specially designed or equipped for carrying containerized cargo
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Surging prices to move cargo by container ship have prompted companies to close the distance between their factories and their American customers, a trend known as nearshoring.
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Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2025
From 1986 to 1988, thousands of pounds of incinerated soot from Philadelphia circumnavigated the globe on a container ship in search of a buyer.
—Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
The allegation might have risen above ignorant innuendo if Lyman had tried to show any evidence that the governor, the mayor or the port commissioner had anything to do with the container ship striking the bridge.
—Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune, 2 Feb. 2025
The case echoed a similar episode last year, when a Chinese container ship, also dragging its anchor over the Baltic Sea bed, severed a Russian fiber-optic cable.
—Anna Mulrine Grobe, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Dec. 2024
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Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2025
From 1986 to 1988, thousands of pounds of incinerated soot from Philadelphia circumnavigated the globe on a container ship in search of a buyer.
—Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
The allegation might have risen above ignorant innuendo if Lyman had tried to show any evidence that the governor, the mayor or the port commissioner had anything to do with the container ship striking the bridge.
—Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune, 2 Feb. 2025
The case echoed a similar episode last year, when a Chinese container ship, also dragging its anchor over the Baltic Sea bed, severed a Russian fiber-optic cable.
—Anna Mulrine Grobe, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Dec. 2024
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“Container ship.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/container%20ship. Accessed 27 Feb. 2025.
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containership
noun
con·tain·er·ship
kən-ˈtā-nər-ˌship 
: a ship designed or equipped to carry very large containers of cargo
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