How to Use shipowner in a Sentence

shipowner

noun

• Many of the shipowners couldn’t be reached, and one declined to comment.
  — Benoit Faucon, WSJ, 6 July 2017
• At the height of the epidemic in Newburyport, there were shipowners pushing to open the wharves and the warehouses and get back to business.
  — Bill Laitner, Detroit Free Press, 18 May 2020
• Turning to the shipowner, Gaisman accused him of ordering the hack.
  — Bloomberg.com, 27 July 2017
• But the foreign navies remain there, and many shipowners have hired private armed guards to protect their vessels.
  — The Economist, 29 June 2019
• One of the most colorful of those shipowners was Laskarina Bouboulina, the 50-year-old widow of a sea captain.
  — Nicholas Gage, Town & Country, 17 June 2013
• While the captain of a naval ship is under strict orders to follow the route stipulated by the shipowner, in the case of a manhunt, the rules are different.
  — National Geographic, 24 Jan. 2020
• The situation is also hitting the profits of some shipowners, as the long and lucrative route from the U.S. to China dries up.
  — Rebecca Elliott, WSJ, 15 Oct. 2018
• That is a decision to be made by its operator, rather than the shipowner, the company said.
  — Samy Magdy and Jon Gambrell, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Mar. 2021
• She remained decommissioned at the port of Patras for the next three years due to the shipowner’s financial problems.
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 10 Mar. 2022
• Tziva has accused the shipowner businessman of being the owner of a tanker - the Noor 1 - that was caught smuggling 2.1 tonnes of heroin into the port of Piraeus.
  — SI.com, 24 Mar. 2018
• As for onboard amenities, the yacht will be equipped with six guest cabins, a shipowner suite, a helipad and a beach club with a swimming pool over its four levels.
  — Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN, 31 Jan. 2023
• Greece, a shipping superpower that owns the largest fleet in the world, is sailing most of its ships under a foreign flag, because shipowners want to avoid Greece's high tax rates.
  — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 28 July 2019
• In the past, several major shipowners have made sizable investments in the country.
  — Nicholas Gage, Town & Country, 17 June 2013
• The company’s order book is empty, and shipowners are buying few new vessels.
  — Andrew Maykuth, Philly.com, 10 May 2018
• Many shipowners believe that more oceangoing vessels will be powered by natural gas in the years ahead.
  — Costas Paris, WSJ, 4 Feb. 2020
• Mr Trump overruled that decision in May, but has said any further waivers will be hard because of the influence in Congress of lobbyists from the sailors’ unions and shipowners.
  — The Economist, 5 Oct. 2017
• But smaller, more indebted shipowners will not be able to raise finance to pay for the conversions, says Basil Karatzas, a shipping consultant in New York.
  — The Economist, 21 June 2018
• But top shipowners have said the market could be the vehicle for the most profitable new trade in shipping since the 1960s, when crude-oil tankers began powering global maritime fortunes.
  — Costas Paris, WSJ, 31 May 2020
• The heated exchange came after the Biden administration on Friday added a layer of sanctions to a Russian vessel and the shipowner for their work on the pipeline project.
  — Jack Durschlag, Fox News, 23 Feb. 2021
• His bloody reputation prompted many shipowners to switch to Panama.
  — The Economist, 19 Oct. 2019
• So does the French oil giant Total, along with many shipowner associations.
  — New York Times, 3 June 2021
• Some shipowners fear their businesses couldn’t survive a sudden spike in energy costs.
  — Costas Paris, WSJ, 31 Oct. 2018
• This means there's less incentive for the shipowner to fork out on fuel-saving technology and similarly the charterer might not lease the ship for long enough to see the payback.
  — Nell Lewis, CNN, 4 Oct. 2021
• Another sticking point is that the charterer, not the shipowner, usually pays for fuel.
  — Nell Lewis, CNN, 4 Oct. 2021
• As shipowners relish the moment, some analysts warn that this corner of the oil industry is unlikely to thrive for long because of depressed demand for crude.
  — Stanley Reed, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2020
• Eventually more shipowners will invest in scrubbers and LNG.
  — The Economist, 21 June 2018
• Executives said the onus should be on refineries, not shipowners, to deal with the fuel issue, although scrubbers remain an option.
  — Costas Paris, WSJ, 20 Mar. 2018
• In Miami, Ted Arison, a shipping agent, had passengers but no ship to put them on, after an arrangement with another shipowner fell through.
  — James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 25 Sep. 2020
• Greek shipowners are estimated to have more than a $1 billion in private Swiss bank accounts, according to people familiar with the matter.
  — Costas Paris, WSJ, 22 Mar. 2023
• More than 170 countries are members, and the group has been cautious about imposing requirements that shipowners in developing countries might struggle to meet.
  — Hannah Beech, The Seattle Times, 26 Aug. 2017

Last Updated: 3 Oct 2024