containership

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Recent Examples of containership In 2025, China completed 14 voyages, including a Cosco containership, the first containership to make a journey through the waterway. Lori Ann Larocco, CNBC, 28 Mar. 2026 The world's largest containership, built by Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding Group, in Rotterdam harbor, Netherlands, on August 12, 2022. Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Aug. 2025
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Noun
  • Ongoing strikes and counterstrikes on Persian Gulf refineries, pipelines, gas fields and tanker terminals threaten to the prolong the global economic pain for months, even years.
    Paul Wiseman, Fortune, 29 Mar. 2026
  • With the Strait of Hormuz blocked to most traffic, Saudi Arabia is routing oil exports through its east-west pipeline to the port of Yanbu on the Red Sea, and tanker traffic there has surged.
    Tim Lister, CNN Money, 29 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The 287-foot freighter was intentionally sunk to create an artificial reef in 1985.
    David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 14 Mar. 2026
  • In this screenshot from one of the live cameras aboard the International Space Station (ISS), the new Northrop Grumman Cygnus XL freighter is being jettisoned away from the station.
    Brett Tingley, Space.com, 12 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • On Wednesday, Lorenzo Palomares, the attorney for the company that owns the barge, said Insua was a good employee.
    April 3, CBS News, 3 Apr. 2026
  • The Malin Augustea barge has been used for frigate float-off operations for both HMS Active and the first ship in the Type 31 class, HMS Venturer.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 1 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • There was no direct overland route, so cross-country mail got routed via steamship around South America.
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Victor Rillet, a 21-year-old Frenchman, disembarked the steamship Washington in New York in October 1864, carrying the kind of optimism that fuels both great innovation and spectacular disappointment.
    The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • The once-largest navy in the world had to borrow a warship from Germany to fulfill its NATO obligations to patrol the North Atlantic.
    Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 1 Apr. 2026
  • On Saturday, the USS Tripoli, a naval warship, arrived in the Middle East carrying about 3,500 sailors and Marines and a transport of fighter planes.
    Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The first was built in 1845 and was a wooden steamer that saw action during the Mexican American war.
    Flint McColgan, Boston Herald, 28 Mar. 2026
  • Hundreds of thousands of power steamers have been recalled due to potential burn risks to their users, safety officials said in a recall notice.
    Fernando Cervantes Jr, USA Today, 19 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Last week, futures traders briefly pushed the probability of a rate increase by the end of 2026 to 52%.
    Chloe Taylor, CNBC, 31 Mar. 2026
  • The spikes in volume didn’t indicate whether the trades were buy or sell orders, but based on how prices moved as they were placed other traders quickly deduced that someone was selling oil futures, a bet on the value of the commodity falling, and buying stock futures, a bet on a market rebound.
    John Cassidy, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • But a major turning point in the power of the office occurred in 2009 with the contested reelection of the hard-liner president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, amid widespread allegations of electoral fraud.
    Roxane Razavi, The Conversation, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL) recently unveiled a Southeast Asia-to-Indian subcontinent service that give the liner its first dedicated route linking Southeast Asia with India’s west coast and Pakistan.
    Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 1 Apr. 2026

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“Containership.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/containership. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.

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