shipping company

English

Noun

shippingcompany(pluralshipping companies)

1. (business,shipping)Acompanywhosemainline of businessisownershipandoperationofships.
   • 1962April, J. N. Faulkner, “Summer Saturday at Waterloo”, inModern Railways,page264:

     Steamship arrivals, however, are less predictable and the best arrangements ofshipping companiesand the railway operating department may be upset by weather and tide.

2. Aline(the body of ships belonging to one nation, port or industry).

Translations

company

• Danish:rederin
• Dutch:rederij(nl)f
• Finnish:varustamo,laivanvarustamo
• German:Reederei(de)f,Schifffahrtsgesellschaft(de)f,Schiffahrtsgesellschaft(de)f(obsolete spelling),Schifffahrtsunternehmen(de)n,Schiffahrtsunternehmenn(obsolete spelling)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål:rederi(no)n

  Nynorsk:reiarlagn

• Spanish:naviera(es)f
• Swedish:rederi(sv)n