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shipping

[ship-ing] / ˈʃɪp ɪŋ /
NOUN
ships
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NOUN
transportation
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International aviation and shipping increased by 0.2 MtCO2e as they returned to pre-Covid levels.

From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026

He had worked at Ambiance for nearly five years, first stacking boxes of clothes and then later moving into shipping.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2026

When the vessel arrived in August, it needed repairs and its purported owners, Ahmed al-Masri and Semra al-Masri, were handling matters with the local shipping agent, an industry source said.

From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026

Mr. Goodspeed’s historical record is, in effect, a training data set, with droughts, strikes, shipping disruptions, credit contractions and policy errors, each tagged by type, geography and sequence.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

But I knew well enough how to ‘shoot’ the bridge after seeing it done, and so began to row about among the shipping in the Pool, and down to Erith.

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens




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