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short-sea shipping

short-sea shipping noun: shipping that takes place in coastal waters or on short sea crossings.

Noun

short-sea shipping (uncountable)

  1. Shipping that takes place in coastal waters or on short sea crossings.
    • At the time, international deep-sea shipping remained a loose cargo operation, although BR did seek to influence conversion to unit loads by providing a containerised short sea shipping service between Harwich and Rotterdam in 1968.2020 May 20, Industry Insider, “An online boost for freight”, in Rail, page 68

Questions about short-sea shipping

What does short-sea shipping mean?
Short-sea shipping means shipping that takes place in coastal waters or on short sea crossings.
What part of speech is short-sea shipping?
Short-sea shipping is a noun.

Words near short-sea shipping in the dictionary

  1. short-period
  2. short-period comet
  3. short-period comets
  4. short-range
  5. short-run
  6. short-sea shipping
  7. short-sell
  8. short-selling
  9. short-sells
  10. short-sheet
  11. short-sheeted

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