How to Use shipowner in a Sentence

shipowner

noun
  • Many of the shipowners couldn’t be reached, and one declined to comment.
    — Benoit Faucon, WSJ, 6 July 2017
  • All shipowners or ocean carriers can be charged up to five times in a single year.
    — Lori Ann Larocco, CNBC, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Since then, plenty of other shipowners have evoked the rule in their own cases.
    — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 31 Mar. 2024
  • This has sent buyers and shipowners scrambling for insurance and new terms.
    — Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 18 Dec. 2025
  • In recent weeks, Iran has been believed to be charging a toll to shipowners in order to pass through.
    — Will Clark, NBC news, 8 Apr. 2026
  • But the foreign navies remain there, and many shipowners have hired private armed guards to protect their vessels.
    — The Economist, 29 June 2019
  • The company’s order book is empty, and shipowners are buying few new vessels.
    — Andrew Maykuth, Philly.com, 10 May 2018
  • That is a decision to be made by its operator, rather than the shipowner, the company said.
    — Samy Magdy and Jon Gambrell, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Mar. 2021
  • Some shipowners fear their businesses couldn’t survive a sudden spike in energy costs.
    — Costas Paris, WSJ, 31 Oct. 2018
  • Many shipowners believe that more oceangoing vessels will be powered by natural gas in the years ahead.
    — Costas Paris, WSJ, 4 Feb. 2020
  • The uncertainty means that many shipowners are still erring on the side of caution, so movement through the strait is more of a trickle than a rush.
    — Mithil Aggarwal, NBC news, 25 June 2026
  • Turning to the shipowner, Gaisman accused him of ordering the hack.
    — Bloomberg.com, 27 July 2017
  • That’s on top of the concerns shipowners and crews already have regarding a potential attack.
    — Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 24 Apr. 2026
  • His bloody reputation prompted many shipowners to switch to Panama.
    — The Economist, 19 Oct. 2019
  • In the past, several major shipowners have made sizable investments in the country.
    — Nicholas Gage, Town & Country, 17 June 2013
  • As for onboard amenities, the yacht will be equipped with six guest cabins, a shipowner suite, a helipad and a beach club with a swimming pool over its four levels.
    — Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN, 31 Jan. 2023
  • Plunging oil prices eroded the business case for efficiency upgrades, and shipowners later took them down.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Apr. 2020
  • Another sticking point is that the charterer, not the shipowner, usually pays for fuel.
    — Nell Lewis, CNN, 4 Oct. 2021
  • Whoever commissioned the statue must have been wealthy, presumably a shipowner or merchant, and was keen to display that wealth.
    — Jo Marchant, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 June 2024
  • At the height of the epidemic in Newburyport, there were shipowners pushing to open the wharves and the warehouses and get back to business.
    — Bill Laitner, Detroit Free Press, 18 May 2020
  • The state of Maryland could still seek money from the shipowner to rebuild the state bridge, which is estimated to cost billions of dollars.
    — Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 18 Sep. 2024
  • The first 48 hours of the ceasefire will be crucial to shipowners' willingness to enter the strait, Windward added.
    — Anniek Bao,joseph Wilkins, CNBC, 9 Apr. 2026
  • The interference means shipowners are often in the dark about the exact location of their fleet, adding legal and insurance risks.
    — Weilun Soon, Bloomberg, 30 Mar. 2026
  • So does the French oil giant Total, along with many shipowner associations.
    — New York Times, 3 June 2021
  • While the captain of a naval ship is under strict orders to follow the route stipulated by the shipowner, in the case of a manhunt, the rules are different.
    — National Geographic, 24 Jan. 2020
  • Iran’s neighbors have rejected its legitimacy and told shipowners not to interact with the body.
    — Alex Longley, Fortune, 20 June 2026
  • Airline and refining industry officials are bracing for a surge in diesel demand as shipowners switch from heavier bunker fuels.
    — Sarah McFarlane, WSJ, 22 Oct. 2018
  • Such a move would upend decades of free access to the strait as an international waterway, forcing shipowners to pay large fees or avoid the route entirely.
    — Joseph Wilkins, CNBC, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Executives said the onus should be on refineries, not shipowners, to deal with the fuel issue, although scrubbers remain an option.
    — Costas Paris, WSJ, 20 Mar. 2018
  • There’s a guerrilla military leader, a shipowner, and a former president.
    — Amanda Shendruk, Quartz, 19 Nov. 2019

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