container port
noun
variants
or less commonly containerport
: a shipping port specially equipped to handle containerized cargo
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Bremerhaven is the biggest German port for the automotive industry and the country's second-largest container port.
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Steve Kopack, NBC news, 27 July 2025
Last year, a Chinese-Singaporean consortium won a tender to construct a new deep-sea container port at Anaklia, Georgia, after Tbilisi cancelled an earlier agreement with a U.S.-Georgian consortium.
—Jeffrey Mankoff, Foreign Affairs, 24 July 2025
At the Port of Oakland, California, the ninth-largest container port in the country and a critical export hub for agricultural products from California and the Midwest, maritime director Bryan Brandes said the port and its customers have been dealing with months of ups and downs.
—Scott Cohn, CNBC, 27 June 2025
The slowdown has also hit the world’s top container port in the metropolis of Shanghai, which handles about 50 million containers each year.
—Ali Martin, Christian Science Monitor, 25 Apr. 2025
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Steve Kopack, NBC news, 27 July 2025
Last year, a Chinese-Singaporean consortium won a tender to construct a new deep-sea container port at Anaklia, Georgia, after Tbilisi cancelled an earlier agreement with a U.S.-Georgian consortium.
—Jeffrey Mankoff, Foreign Affairs, 24 July 2025
At the Port of Oakland, California, the ninth-largest container port in the country and a critical export hub for agricultural products from California and the Midwest, maritime director Bryan Brandes said the port and its customers have been dealing with months of ups and downs.
—Scott Cohn, CNBC, 27 June 2025
The slowdown has also hit the world’s top container port in the metropolis of Shanghai, which handles about 50 million containers each year.
—Ali Martin, Christian Science Monitor, 25 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for container port
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“Container port.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/container%20port. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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