reefer
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Moller Maersk, the world’s no.1 container shipping line, said it has an agreement with COVAXX, a division of U.S. private group United Biomedical, to move the vaccine in specialised refrigerated reefer containers.
From Reuters ● Dec. 18, 2020
The union said most other reefer jobs at West Coast ports were being handled by the I.L.W.U.
From New York Times ● Nov. 21, 2019
“For the growing middle class, basic food like rice is no longer enough,” said Eric Legros, head of reefer operations at French shipping giant CMA CGM.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2018
Pelayo suspects the vessel is a “mothership,” or reefer, which collects fish from smaller fishing boats, allowing them to stay out at sea longer.
From National Geographic ● Aug. 15, 2017
She was wearing a navy-blue reefer and a tam that was very nearly the same shade of red as the blanket on the bed in van Gogh’s room at Arles.
From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger
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