: a ship specially designed or equipped for carrying containerized cargo
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Recent Examples on the WebThese barrels travel the world on a container ship for months at a time, changing hemispheres and undergoing extreme shifts in temperature and weather. Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 8 Aug. 2022 Last spring, as the world watched, a huge container ship loaded with bicycles, dildos, and IKEA furniture blocked the Suez Canal for six days. Adam Iscoe, The New Yorker, 18 July 2022 Eleven cars from the U.S., all on the same container ship, were shipped to Sydney, but due to the shipping company going into receivership, our ship was arrested in the port of Singapore. Mark Ewing, Forbes, 3 July 2022 In the last 20 years, the size of the container ship has doubled – and the largest ships sailing today can haul 24,000 containers (TEU)—equal to the capacity of a freight train 44 miles long.Forbes, 1 June 2022 What else has started off on a container ship and wound up in the ocean? Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 30 May 2022 Cornwall owes its dragon population to the Tokio Express, a container ship that sailed from Rotterdam for North America in February of 1997 and ran into foul weather twenty miles off Land’s End. Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 30 May 2022 The Ever Given, a 219,000-ton container ship, lodged itself across the Suez Canal. John Anderson, WSJ, 17 May 2022 Nobody wants to watch a container ship attacked with a bomb, so the Air Force must depict the target as secretly armed. Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 10 May 2022 See More