Shipping

Definition: Shipping

Shipping

Noun

1. The commercial enterprise of transporting goods and materials.

2. Conveyance provided by the ships belonging to one country or industry.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "shipping" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Synonyms: Shipping

Ship

Navy, marine, fleet, flotilla; shipping.

Crosswords: Shipping

Dash into shore, cut across shipping lanes (The Perfect Storm; writing credit: William D. Wittliff)

Shipping clerk comes home, finds missus with boarder (Design for Living; writing credit: Noel Coward; Ben Hecht)

It used to be only death and taxes were inevitable. Now, of course, there's shipping and handling, too. (references; author: unknown)

Shipping a Clock (1913)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Actinor Shipping ASA: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Anek Lines Shipping SA: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Carisbrooke Shipping plc: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Chu Kong Shipping Development Co Limited: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Essar Shipping Limited: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Annie Proulx's The Shipping News: A Reader's Guide (Continuum Contemporaries) (reference)

• Dictionary of International Trade: 4,071 International Trade, Economic, Banking, Legal & Shipping Terms (reference)

• Rise and Decline of U.S. Merchant Shipping in the Twentieth Century (Twayne's Evolution of American Business Series, No 8) (reference)

• Shipping Infectious Substances (reference)

• Shipping Semen? How to Have a Successful Experience (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Browns Flags And Funnels Of Shipping Companies Of The World (reference)

• American Bureau Of Shipping Activity Report (reference)

• Record Of American Bureau Of Shipping (reference)

• Directory Of Hazardous Materials Shipping Descriptions (reference)

• Fairplay World Shipping Encyclopaedia - Cd-rom (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Hazmat Solutions: Shipping Papers (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• The Shipping News [SOUNDTRACK] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Lp340/lp350 Ata Shipping Case (reference)

• Shipping Case for Dp9270/dp9290 Ata Hard Shell - D/ship (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Commercially harvested sea urchins being offloaded from fishing vessel and for shipping to a processing plant. Credit: Fisheries.

Catfish processed and packed at the Heartland Catfish Processing plant in Itta Bena, MS. Is made ready for shipping. Credit: USDA.

Shipping. Credit: USDA.

Trichogramma wasps are packaged in shipping capsules for later release in corn fields. Bags are color-coded according to insect maturity to help researchers determine optimum release dates. Credit: USDA ARS News.

General view of circular stair, first floor, from the north. Photograph by Jack E. Boucher, September 1971. (Reproduction Number: HABS IN,39-MAD,1-11) This beautiful freestanding spiral staircase climbs from the first floor to the attic of the Captain Charles L. Shrewsbury House. Both the staircase and the house were designed by the architect Francis J. Costigan, a native of Baltimore who had moved to Indiana in 1837. Captain Shrewsbury, a wealthy shipping merchant who owned a fleet of Ohio River steamboats, raised his family of six children in this house and often welcomed state officials and other prominent citizens as his guests. Credit: Library of Congress.

Medicine - Military - Equipment : Shipping room of medical supply depot near Iss-sur-Tille, France. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Photographed by her builder, the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, Newport News, Virginia, probably upon completion of construction in 1918. Note her camouflage. This ship was acquired by the Navy and commissioned as USS Agwidale (ID # 4464) on 16 November 1918. The Navy returned her to the U.S. Shipping Board on 11 April 1919. Credit: NAVY.

At Newport, Rhode Island, on 7 October 1916. She subsequently attacked Allied shipping off the U.S. East Coast. USS Birmingham (Scout Cruiser # 2) is in the right distance. Note tall radio masts and German Navy flags on the submarine, and the interesting small boat tied up alongside. Credit: NAVY.

Shipping steers at Guayaquil. Credit: Library of Congress.

Our cotton campaign in South Carolina - gathering, ginning, packing and shipping the cotton crops of the Sea Islands, Port Royal, by the Federal Army, under General Sherman / from sketches by our special artist accompanying the expedition. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

The number of the tugs and boats, and the amount of the material so ceded, and their distribution, shall be determined by an arbitrator or arbitrators nominated by the United States of America, due regard being had to the legitimate needs of the parties concerned, and particularly to the shipping traffic during the five years preceding the war. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Before we took shipping, I was often asked by some of the crew whether I had performed the ceremony above mentioned

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Contamination can occur during growing, harvesting, processing, storing, shipping, or final preparation. (references)

Call SPB at 404 639 1511 to obtain specific shipping information and to notify us that a specimen will arrive for testing. (references)

A facility in Florida has been irradiating strawberries and other fruits on a limited basis, to prolong shelf life. On a trial basis, fresh tropical fruits from Hawaii have been irradiated before shipping them to the mainland, instead of fumigating them to eliminate the fruit fly pests that could spread to the mainland. (references)

Business

Shipping distances from the U.S. also are much longer. (references)

Shipping charges from the U.S. are approximately US$80 per cubic meter. (references)

Major shipping companies will seek Global Marine District Safety Systems. (references)

Civil Liberties

Bangladesh

Khasru wrote a series of news stories on corruption in the shipping industry. (references)

Bangladesh

On June 5, members of a gang believed to be engaged in stealing shipping oil and property kidnaped Atahar Siddique Khasru, the Sitakunda correspondent of Dhaka-based Bangla-language daily Ittefaq. (references)

Economic History

Australia

Shipping schedules are reliable. (references)

Human Rights

Congo

A number of prisoners reportedly died of suffocation after guards detained them in overcrowded shipping containers. (references)

Political Economy

GREECE

Tourism, shipping, trade, banking, transportation, communications, and construction are the largest service sub-sectors. (references)

CANADA

Generally, workers must be 17 years of age to work in an industry under federal jurisdiction, e.g. railways, airlines and shipping. (references)

Trade

Bolivia

The permit must be obtained prior to shipping. (references)

Bolivia

The import permit must be obtained prior to shipping. (references)

Ireland

There are no regulations for the marking of shipping packages. (references)

Travel

Burma

Myanma Five Star lines, a government shipping agency, handles such shipments. (references)

Cote D'ivoire

Currently there are three national shipping companies in Côte d'Ivoire: Sivomar, Comarco, and CMGI. (references)

Ghana

Shipping time and costs have been lowered by the direct link offered by Maersk from Baltimore to Tema. (references)

Worker Rights

Fiji

Workers in some industries, notably transportation and shipping, work excessive hours. (references)

Hong Kong

On a much smaller scale, traffickers have attempted to smuggle persons in shipping containers. (references)

Cape Verde

However, in July and August 1999, the workers of the shipping company Arca Verde made two attempts to strike. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "shipping": american bureau of shipping ♦ assault shipping ♦ Baltic mercantile and shipping exchange ♦ chamber of shipping ♦ defense shipping authority ♦ fuel shipping cask ♦ national shipping authority ♦ port evacuation of shipping ♦ port of shipping ♦ register of shipping ♦ shipping agency ♦ shipping agent ♦ shipping and handling ♦ shipping and handling fee ♦ shipping articles ♦ shipping bill ♦ shipping business ♦ shipping channel ♦ shipping charges ♦ shipping clerk ♦ shipping company ♦ shipping costs ♦ shipping document ♦ shipping fever ♦ shipping forecast ♦ shipping hammer ♦ shipping industry ♦ shipping lane ♦ shipping line ♦ shipping master ♦ shipping movement policy ♦ shipping note ♦ shipping office ♦ shipping pneumonia ♦ shipping room ♦ shipping route ♦ short sea shipping ♦ To take shipping. Additional references.

Beginning with "shipping": shipping-fleet.

Ending with "shipping": anti-shipping.

Albanian

transport mallrash (freight, freightage), ngarkim (assignment, lading, loading, shipment), flotë detare. (various references)

Arabic 

‏ملاحة (navigation, saltworks), ‏صناعة الشحن بالسفن, ‏النقل البحري, ‏الشحن, ‏أسطول سفن, ‏شحنة السفينة. (various references)

Bulgarian 

търговски флот (merchant navy), кораби (craft), натоваране на стоки, превоз на стоки, параходен (ship, steamship), параходи, изпращане на стоки. (various references)

Chinese 

裝貨 , 运输 (trans, Trans-, transport, transportation, Transported, Transporting), 航運 (transport). (various references)

Czech

nalodìní (embarkation), námořní plavba (high seas navigation). (various references)

Danish

strålingsskærmet transportbeholder (cask, coffin, flask, fuel shipping cask), speditoer (forwarder, forwarding agent, shipper, shipping agent, shipping forwarding agent), smitsom hoste (bovine pneumonic pasteurellosis, bovine respiratory disease, bovine respiratory disease complex, pneumonic pasteurellosis, shipping fever, shipping pneumonia, transit fever, transit pneumonia), skibsfragtbrev (bill of lading, shipping bill), short-sea fart (short sea routes, short sea shipping, short sea shipping routes), shipping fever (bovine pneumonic pasteurellosis, bovine respiratory disease, bovine respiratory disease complex, pneumonic pasteurellosis, shipping fever, shipping pneumonia, transit fever, transit pneumonia), søtransport over kortere afstande (short sea shipping routes), viruspneumoni (bovine pneumonic pasteurellosis, bovine respiratory disease, bovine respiratory disease complex, pneumonic pasteurellosis, shipping fever, shipping pneumonia, transit fever, transit pneumonia), rederi (ship owning company, shipowning business, shipping company), korte søruter (short sea routes, short sea shipping), konnossement (bill of lading, shipping bill), influenza hos hest (equine infectious bronchitis, equine influenza, Hoppengarten cough, laryngotracheobronchitis, Newmarket cough, shipping fever, the Cough), hesteinfluenza (equine infectious bronchitis, equine influenza, Hoppengarten cough, laryngotracheobronchitis, Newmarket cough, shipping fever, the Cough), den nære liniefart (short sea routes, short sea shipping, short sea shipping routes). (various references)

Dutch

zeescheepvaart (maritime shipping). (various references)

Esperanto

ekspeddato (shipping-date), akcio de navigacia kompanio (shipping share). (various references)

Finnish

laivaus (shipment). (various references)

French

transport maritime. (various references)

German

Versendung (consignment, forwarding, sending, shipment), versand (dispatch, distribution, forwarding, shipment). (various references)

Greek 

ναυτιλία (marine, navigation, sailing). (various references)

Hebrew 

משלוח (consignment, expedition, sending, shipment, transport), צי (fleet, navy), ספנות (navigation, sailing, seamanship). (various references)

Hungarian

hajózás (navigation, sailing). (various references)

Indonesian

perkapalan, pengekspedisian (forwarding), pengapalan, ekspedisi (forwarding, mail room). (various references)

Italian

spedizione (consignment, despatch, dispatch, expedition, forwarding, forwarding agency, posting, programme, remittance, sending, shipment, transmission). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

舟 (boat, ship, steamship, vessel, watercraft), 船 (boat, ship, steamship, vessel, watercraft). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しゅっか (forwarding, outbreak of fire, outgoing freight), うんそう (marine transportation), ふね (boat, ship, steamship, vessel, watercraft), せんぷく (ambush, bottoms, concealment, freight space, hiding, incubation, ship's beam, ship's hold, side or bottom of a ship, tonnage), かいそう (attendance at a funeral, class, fast sailing, forwarding, hierarchy, level, marine plant, petty officer, reburial, reflection, reminiscence, remodelling, reorganization, rout, seaweed, stampede, stratum), はっそう (conceptualization, expression, first race, forwarding, sending, start). (various references)

Korean 

선박. (various references)

Manx

lhuingys (fleet). (various references)

Pig Latin

ippingshay.(various references)

Portuguese

tonelagem total, remessa (delivery, remittance, sending, shipment), frota (fleet), expedição (delivery, despatch, dispatch, expedition, mail, ploy, sending, shipment, transport), embarque (departure, embarkation, shipment). (various references)

Romanian

transport (carriage, casting, conveyance, haulage, portage, transport, vehicular transport), totalitatea vaselor dintr-un port, expediere (dispatch, shipment), îmbarcare (all aboard, embarkation, shipment). (various references)

Russian 

торговый флот (mercantile marine, merchant navy, merchant service), торговые суда, погрузка (lading, loading, shipment), пересылать пересылка. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

utovar (load on, loading), ukrcavanje (embarkation, loading), otpremanje (despatch, dispatch, relegation), mornarica (fleet, marine, marines, navy), špedicija (freight company, freightage). (various references)

Spanish

embarque (boarding, embarkation, melodrama, shipment). (various references)

Swedish

frakt (burden, cargo, carriage, charge, freight, goods, load, packing, shipload, shipment). (various references)

Turkish

tonaj (burden, tonnage), ticaret filosu (mercantile fleet, mercantile marine, merchant marine, merchant navy), taşıma (carriage, carrying, conduction, conveyance, freight, haulage, portage, removal, traction, transfer, transport, transportation), nakliye (carriage, carrying, forwarding, freight, haulage, transport), gemi trafiği, gönderme (consignment, conveyance, forwarding, reference, sending, transmitting), filo (fleet, flying unit, group, home fleet, squadron). (various references)

Ukrainian

судноплавство, вантаження (heaving, loading, shipment), морський флот (marine). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự xếp hàng xuống tàu, hàng hải. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "shipping": shippings. (additional references)

Words ending with "shipping": fellowshipping, reshipping, transhipping, transshipping, unshipping, worshipping. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Shipping" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Schuppan, shilpi, Shimpling, Shipanga, shiping, shippings, swipping. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: hipping, pipings, pishing, sipping.

-2 letters: piping, siping.

-3 letters: nighs, piing, pings.

-4 letters: ghis, gins, gips, hins, hips, hisn, nigh, nips, nisi, phis, pigs, ping, pins, pips, pish, shin, ship, sigh, sign, sing, sinh, snip, spin.

-5 letters: ghi, gin, gip, hin, hip, his, ins, nip, phi, pig, pin, pip, pis, psi, sin, sip.

+1 letter: shippings, whippings.

+2 letters: reshipping, unshipping.

+3 letters: worshipping.

+4 letters: transhipping.

+5 letters: horsewhipping, phosphatizing, transshipping.