: 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 WebThankfully, the goods always arrived, albeit many months later, presumably following lengthy voyages on industrial shipping containers.—Jiayang Fan, The New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2024 The company has been focused on efficiency and cost-cutting in its fulfillment and e-commerce businesses; using robotics, reducing shipping distances, and implementing a number of other strategies that are starting to pay benefits, according to Nowak.—Will Daniel, Fortune, 23 Apr. 2024 Here's what this early-year performance means for the shipping giant.—Olivia Evans, The Courier-Journal, 23 Apr. 2024 The deaths took place after an overcrowded boat carrying around 110 people set out to cross the busy shipping lane from France to England.—Anna Gordon, TIME, 23 Apr. 2024 From India, the shrimp travels by the ton, frozen in shipping containers, to the U.S., more than 8,000 miles away.—Martha Mendoza, Mahesh Kumar and Piyush Nagpal, Quartz, 23 Apr. 2024 Some warehouses, shipping centers, kitchens, schools and other workplaces can soar above 90 degrees.—Suhauna Hussain, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2024 Its paramilitary partners — including Hezbollah and Yemen’s Houthis who have repeatedly struck a key Red Sea shipping route — link their battles to the war in Gaza.—CNN, 13 Apr. 2024 Olszewski also forecasts that shipping rates will increase for various items and consumers will suffer.—Doc Louallen, ABC News, 12 Apr. 2024
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