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containership

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as in tanker

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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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Sinokor’s aggressive buying combined with a swell in oil flows to send tanker rates surging even before the US and Israeli strikes on Iran led to the effective closure of the world’s most important oil shipping lane.

— Weilun Soon, Fortune, 5 July 2026
Riyadh largely paused shipments from its Gulf export terminals of Ras Tanura and Juaymah on March 9 after tanker traffic through Hormuz plunged due to Iranian attacks.

— Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 2 July 2026

Definition of tanker

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Ballast water the likely vector Researchers believe the bloody red shrimp first arrived in the Great Lakes from ballast water released from freighter ships that also travel the oceans.

— Keith Matheny, Freep.com, 3 July 2026
Best International Narrative Feature went to Labrador — Autopsy of Silence, directed by Rodrigue Jean, which follows an Inuk mechanic who is suspected of murder on a freighter.

— Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 12 June 2026

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These include the Type 91 surface-to-air missile barge, Type 92 underwater sensing vessel, Type 93 autonomous submarine, and Type 94 surface sensing vessel, all of which form part of the UK’s broader Hybrid Navy concept.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 30 June 2026
The dredge is conducted by crane and excavator barges that dig sand up and deposit it in another barge.

— Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 28 June 2026

Definition of barge

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With the advent of the steamship, the cost of passage plummeted, and companies offered special immigrant fares that were often coupled with rail tickets to the interior of the country.

— Albert Sun, New York Times, 2 July 2026
In 1868, at the age of 29, John Muir arrived in San Francisco via steamship with definitive plans to wander and revel in the natural wonders of California—he’d heard of the Golden State’s geographic riches and wanted to see them for himself.

— Chelsee Lowe, Travel + Leisure, 1 July 2026

Definition of steamship

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Gendron said his ancestors were among the first outsiders to settle the island in the 1700s, when three brothers, fur traders all, left Canada and followed the Mississippi south.

— Andrew Carter, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2026
That's a key technical level watched and used by traders, illustrating a stock or index's trend.

— Zev Fima,Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 5 July 2026

Definition of trader

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The interior also comes with a cotton liner, which will be much easier to spot-clean should your cosmetics or snacks leave a stain.

— Alyssa Grabinski, PEOPLE, 1 July 2026
Passengers of the Ile de France ocean liner stand on deck with their dogs, which have been fitted with special animal life preservers.

— Sylvie Bigar, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026

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