: the body of ships in one place or belonging to one port or country
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: the act or business of one that ships
Examples of shipping in a Sentence
The fruit was ready for shipping.
They protected our shipping from submarines during wartime.
Recent Examples on the WebOn Wednesday, the International Transport Workers’ Federation renewed its call on the shipping industry to divert ships around the Cape of Good Hope until safe transit through the Red Sea can be guaranteed.—Hanna Ziady, CNN, 8 Mar. 2024 About 230 people sleep at Pinellas Hope’s 10-acre campus each night, in either its apartments, tents or cottages converted from shipping containers, Rogers said.—Lawrence Mower, Miami Herald, 5 Mar. 2024 Autonomous Mobile Robots — orders are brought to employees for the final shipping processes for dealers.—Chase Jordan, Charlotte Observer, 5 Mar. 2024 Nevertheless, the costs of energy and shipping spiked, and, by that June, prices in America had soared more than nine per cent in one year—the steepest rise in four decades.—Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024 By integrating marketplaces, products, fulfillment, and shipping, Why Unified simplifies the selling process.—Tyler Shepherd, Detroit Free Press, 4 Mar. 2024 In one of Europe’s deadliest shipping disasters in recent years, hundreds of migrants drowned after an overloaded boat sank off the Greek town of Pylos in June 2023.—Beatrice Tridimas, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Mar. 2024 These include fuels for aviation and shipping that will need a mix of hydrogen, biomass, and electricity to save up to 2 Gt of emissions.—Ian Palmer, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024 The terror group has launched more than 45 attacks on commercial and naval vessels since mid-November, which disrupted the shipping industry and the global economy, officials said over the weekend.—Louis Casiano, Fox News, 28 Feb. 2024
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