"shipping" | Definition and Related Words

Noun

The commercial enterprise of moving goods and materials (synset 101107164)
associated with:
- on-line, online - on a regular route of a railroad or bus or airline system
- off-line - not on a regular route of a transportation system
is a type of: business, business enterprise, commercial enterprise - the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects
subtypes:
- air transport, air transportation - transportation by air
- navigation - ship traffic
- hauling, truckage, trucking - the activity of transporting goods by truck
- freight, freightage - transporting goods commercially at rates cheaper than express rates
- express, expressage - rapid transport of goods
- ferry, ferrying - transport by boat or aircraft
is a part of: commerce, commercialism, mercantilism - transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services)

same as: transport, transportation
Conveyance provided by the ships belonging to one country or industry (synset 104203545)
is a type of: conveyance, transport - something that serves as a means of transportation

same as: cargo ships, merchant marine, merchant vessels