container ship
noun
variants
or less commonly containership
: a ship specially designed or equipped for carrying containerized cargo
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Last year, Cosco’s first electric container ship set sail from Yangzhou port.
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Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 June 2024
There is a sly reference to the name of the container ship in the form of the face of mustachioed artist Salvador Dali.
—Amy Davis, Baltimore Sun, 13 May 2024
Questions are brewing over who will cover the cost of the Key Bridge disaster, with the Singaporean company that owns the container ship likely to push back on liability claims.
—Justin Klawans, The Week Us, theweek, 8 Apr. 2024
It’s taken almost two months of work, a few tons of explosives and the construction of a whole new trench in the lower Patapsco River, but the container ship that hit and destroyed the Francis Scott Key bridge is finally on the move again.
—Owen Bellwood / Jalopnik, Quartz, 21 May 2024
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Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 June 2024
There is a sly reference to the name of the container ship in the form of the face of mustachioed artist Salvador Dali.
—Amy Davis, Baltimore Sun, 13 May 2024
Questions are brewing over who will cover the cost of the Key Bridge disaster, with the Singaporean company that owns the container ship likely to push back on liability claims.
—Justin Klawans, The Week Us, theweek, 8 Apr. 2024
It’s taken almost two months of work, a few tons of explosives and the construction of a whole new trench in the lower Patapsco River, but the container ship that hit and destroyed the Francis Scott Key bridge is finally on the move again.
—Owen Bellwood / Jalopnik, Quartz, 21 May 2024
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“Container ship.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/container%20ship. Accessed 17 Jun. 2024.
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containership
noun
con·tain·er·ship
kən-ˈtā-nər-ˌship 
: a ship designed or equipped to carry very large containers of cargo
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