shipping company

English

Noun

shipping company (plural shipping companies)

1. (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.

2. 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