shipping

[ˈʃɪpɪŋ]

Definition:
1. The commercial enterprise of transporting goods and materials.
2. Conveyance provided by the ships belonging to one country or industry.

Use 'shipping' in a sentence:

1. The collision took place in one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world.
2. Therefore, to reduce shipping time, Trancorp plans to switch to trains and barges to transport goods to Burland.
3. The problem in shipping extended to the Arsenale, Venice's huge and powerful shipyard.
4. Mr. Brown has held 500 shares in the shipping company.
5. Design and Analysis of the Email System in Ocean Shipping.
6. The shipping and packing costs are passed along in the item price.
7. Reflects and Proposals on Management of Process Control for Shipping Development.
8. It is known that noise pollution from offshore industry, shipping and sonar can impair underwater communication, but can it really drive whales onto our beaches?
9. This decline can be seen clearly in the changes that affected Venetian shipping and trade.
10. Shipping charges on orders sent to Canada are paid C.O.D.
11. A report by ING yesterday said that shipping activity at US ports has suddenly dived.
12. Venetian shipping had started to decline from about 1530—before the entry into the Mediterranean of large volumes of Dutch and British shipping—and was clearly outclassed by the end of the century.
13. Theoretically, in the world of trade, shipping costs do not matter.
14. First, Venice's intermediary functions in the Adriatic Sea, where it had dominated the business of shipping for other parties, were lost to direct trading.
15. Some cost savings can be achieved by improving the logistics of loading trucks and shipping packaging within each department.
16. It could take away many jobs, including those for growing, shipping and packaging food.
17. They also donated space for 3.1 million pounds of charitable shipping globally.
18. Shipping is included on orders sent within the continental U.S.
19. The shipping container transformed ocean shipping into a highly efficient, intensely competitive business.
20. This restriction not only contributed to Great Britain's rise as Europe's foremost shipping nation but also laid the foundations for an American shipbuilding industry and merchant marine.
21. It soon grew as an entrepot town due to its strategic location along the busy shipping routes connecting Europe to China.
22. The expansion of colonial shipping in turn accelerated urbanization by creating a need for centralized docks, warehouses, and repair shops in the colonies.
23. The company provides a styrofoam cushion to protect the tablets during shipping.
24. The canal is open to shipping.
25. The Cunard shipping line came up with a clever slogan: "Getting there is half the fun."
26. At the height of his shipping career he owned about 60 ocean-going vessels.
27. Betty started as a shipping clerk at the clothes factory.
28. The shipping industry promulgated a voluntary code.
29. Companies engaged in shipping, trucking, rail freight, delivery, and logistics have all been reporting better than expected results.
30. The community depends on the shipping industry for its survival.
31. She arranged for the shipping of her furniture to England.