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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

China COSCO Shipping Corporation Limited (branded as COSCO Shipping) is a Chinese state-owned multinational marine transportation service conglomerate...

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

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 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...

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

A shipping master is an appointment in some countries that manages certain affairs of the merchant navy. The exact duties a shipping master carries out...

China Ocean Shipping Company (abbreviated as COSCO) was a former shipping corporation from 1961 to 2016, owned by the State Council of China. The company...

The Shipping Corporation of India (SCI) is a public sector undertaking that operates and manages vessels servicing both national and international lines...

Sinotrans Shipping Ltd. (Former stock code: SEHK: 368) is one of the largest shipping companies in China and a listed subsidiary of China Merchants Group...

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...

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...

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...

Roll-on/Roll-off (for Freights), Tankers and Gas Carriers). List of container shipping companies by ship fleets and containers for the largest. List of passenger...

Shipping investments are a form of alternative investment into an asset related to worldwide shipping. This could be into ships themselves, or a related...

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

of American and Foreign Shipping was established in 1857, and the American Lloyd’s Register of American and Foreign Shipping issued from at least 1859...

Pacific Basin Shipping Limited is a maritime transport company engaged in international dry bulk shipping through the operation of a fleet of vessels...

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...

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...

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

The environmental impact of shipping include air pollution, water pollution, acoustic, and oil pollution. Ships are responsible for more than 18% of nitrogen...