shipping company

English

Noun

shipping company (plural shipping companies)

(business, shipping) A company whose main line of business is ownership and operation of ships.
- 1962 April, J. N. Faulkner, “Summer Saturday at Waterloo”, in Modern Railways, page 264:
  Steamship arrivals, however, are less predictable and the best arrangements of shipping companies and the railway operating department may be upset by weather and tide.
A line (the body of ships belonging to one nation, port or industry).

Translations

company

Danish: rederi n
Dutch: rederij (nl) f
Finnish: varustamo, laivanvarustamo
German: Reederei (de) f, Schifffahrtsgesellschaft (de) f, Schiffahrtsgesellschaft (de) f (obsolete spelling), Schifffahrtsunternehmen (de) n, Schiffahrtsunternehmen n (obsolete spelling)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: rederi (no) n

Nynorsk: reiarlag n
Spanish: naviera (es) f
Swedish: rederi (sv) n

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