of transporting commodities and merchandise goods and cargo. The term shipping originally referred to transport by sea but in American English, it has...

used in modern domestic shipping within North America to describe the point at which a seller is no longer responsible for shipping costs. Ownership of a...

Drop shipping is a form of retail business in which the seller accepts customer orders without keeping stock on hand. Instead, in a form of supply chain...

Mediterranean Shipping Company S.A., branded as MSC, is an international shipping line founded by Gianluigi Aponte in Italy in 1970. The company is owned...

Shipping insurance is a service which may reimburse senders whose parcels are lost, stolen, and/or damaged in transit. In Canada and the US, shipping...

The Shipping News is a novel by American author E. Annie Proulx and published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1993. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction...

A shipping container is a container with strength suitable to withstand shipment, storage, and handling. Shipping containers range from large reusable...

China COSCO Shipping Corporation Limited, abbreviated as COSCO Shipping, is a Chinese state-owned multinational conglomerate headquartered in Shanghai...

Several shipping lines are involved in intermodal freight transport as part of international trade. This is a list of the 30 largest container shipping companies...

Free shipping is a marketing tactic used primarily by online vendors and mail-order catalogs as a sales strategy to attract customers. Internet vendors...

Shipping is the transportation of cargo. Shipping may also refer to: Shipping line, a business that operates ships that it may or may not own Shipping...

Shipping (derived from the word relationship) is the term for the desire by followers of a fandom for two or more people, either real-life people or fictional...

The Shipping Forecast is a BBC Radio broadcast of weather reports and forecasts for the seas around the British Isles. It is produced by the Met Office...

Shipping News was an American post-rock/post-hardcore band. The group formed in the fall of 1996 when members Jason Noble and Jeff Mueller, who were both...

A shipping line or shipping company is a company whose line of business is ownership and operation of ships. Shipping companies provide a method of distinguishing...

The term shipping terminal may apply to facilities where loading and unloading of people or goods takes place: Freight terminal, a processing node for...

Greece is a maritime nation by tradition, as shipping is arguably the oldest form of occupation of the Greeks and has been a key element of Greek economic...

Log shipping is the process of automating the backup of transaction log files on a primary (production) database server, and then restoring them onto a...

The international shipping industry can be divided into four closely related shipping markets, each trading in a different commodity: the freight market...

Shipping Wars is an American reality television series that aired on A&E from January 10, 2012, to April 29, 2015. Season 9 premiered on November 30, 2021...

Chartering is an activity within the shipping industry whereby a shipowner hires out the use of their vessel to a charterer. The contract between the parties...

A sea lane, sea road or shipping lane is a regularly used navigable route for large water vessels (ships) on wide waterways such as oceans and large lakes...

implications of portraying taboo and abusive sexual content within shipping fanfiction. "Shipping"—the depiction of a romantic or sexual relationship between...

Hanjin Shipping Co., Ltd. was a South Korean logistics and container transport company. Hanjin Shipping was South Korea's largest container line and one...

Roble Shipping Inc. is a Cebu-based shipping line located in Cebu City, Philippines. The company was founded by Jose Roble, a native of Danao, Cebu. Established...

Zim Integrated Shipping Services Ltd., commonly known as ZIM (Hebrew: צים, tsim; a biblical word meaning "a fleet of ships", Numbers 24:24), is a publicly...

COSCO SHIPPING Lines Co., Ltd. (Chinese: 中远海运集运) is a Chinese international container transportation and shipping company. It is a subsidiary of COSCO...

In shipping, the designation A1 is a symbol used to denote quality of construction and material. In the various shipping registers ships are classed and...

abolished and replaced by the Ministry of the Economy, Competitiveness and Shipping (Υπουργείο Οικονομίας, Ανταγωνιστικότητας και Ναυτιλίας). The new ministry...

The World Shipping Council (WSC) is the primary industry trade association representing the international liner shipping industry, which offers regularly...