container ship
noun
variants
or less commonly containership
: a ship specially designed or equipped for carrying containerized cargo
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Tugboats guide the Maersk Atlanta container ship at the Port of Newark in Newark, New Jersey, US, on Saturday, March 30, 2024.
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Lori Ann Larocco, CNBC, 19 Sep. 2024
Video footage captured the container ship hitting the bridge after appearing to lose power two times.
—Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 18 Sep. 2024
Agents boarded another container ship managed by Synergy while it was docked in Baltimore on Saturday.
—Lea Skene and Brian Witte, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2024
The Port of Baltimore, which was briefly shut by the collapse of the Key Bridge when it was hit by a container ship earlier this year, handles the nation’s largest volume of auto imports.
—Chris Isidore and Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN, 26 Sep. 2024
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Lori Ann Larocco, CNBC, 19 Sep. 2024
Video footage captured the container ship hitting the bridge after appearing to lose power two times.
—Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 18 Sep. 2024
Agents boarded another container ship managed by Synergy while it was docked in Baltimore on Saturday.
—Lea Skene and Brian Witte, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2024
The Port of Baltimore, which was briefly shut by the collapse of the Key Bridge when it was hit by a container ship earlier this year, handles the nation’s largest volume of auto imports.
—Chris Isidore and Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN, 26 Sep. 2024
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“Container ship.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/container%20ship. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.
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containership
noun
con·tain·er·ship
kən-ˈtā-nər-ˌship 
: a ship designed or equipped to carry very large containers of cargo
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