Shipping Definition–noun | 1. | the act or business of a person or thing that ships. |
| 2. | a number of ships, esp. merchant ships, taken as a whole; tonnage. |
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Related topics from Britannicashipping route
any of the lines of travel followed by merchant sea vessels. Early routes usually kept within sight of coastal landmarks, but, as navigators learned to determine latitude from the heavenly bodies, ...
Lloyd's Register of Shipping
world's first and largest ship-classification society, begun in 1760 as a registry for ships likely to be insured by marine insurance underwriters meeting at Lloyd's coffeehouse in London. It is ...
London
For centuries, shipping was at the heart of the economy of London. The city retained its lead as the largest, busiest port in the world until World War II, with an average of 1,000 ship arrivals and ...
Brazil
Brazilian coastal shipping was, for many years, in no better condition than its railways. After the federal government launched a shipbuilding program in the 1960s, however, cargo tonnage increased ...
maritime law
The function of ships, other than warships, pleasure craft, and service vessels of various types is of course transportation of cargoes and passengers. In the "jet age" the passenger-carrying segment ...
China
China's 8,700-mile- (14,000-km-) long coastline is indented by some 100 large and small bays and has some 20 deepwater harbours, most of which are ice-free throughout the year. Coastal shipping is ...
Athens
Athens accounts for more than half of the cars, trucks, and buses in use in the nation. Furthermore, the number of merchant ships registered in Greece (mostly at Piraeus, the country's largest port) ...
Transportation
Two main problems continued to bedevil world shipping in 1994. The first was the increasing age of the world fleet, which promised to result in many more substandard ships unable to meet current ...
New York City
The shipping enterprise has always characterized New York. Its Dutch-English merchant class dominated the colonial assembly and after 1756 controlled the annual salary grant awarded to the royal ...
Transportation
According to figures released by Lloyd's Register of Shipping, during 1997 the world fleet of merchant ships grew by 2.8% to 522.2 million gt (gross tons), an increase of 14.3 million gt over the ...
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