shipping line

Example Sentences

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The rest will go to Hamburg, Germany-based Hapag-Lloyd, which said it would vault from the 10th to the fifth-largest shipping line with a fleet of over 400 vessels.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 16, 2026

He left at 15 to begin work in the office of a shipping line in Liverpool.

From BBC • Nov. 30, 2024

That project, called Pier 400, allowed Los Angeles to woo the world’s largest shipping line, Maersk, away from its Long Beach neighbor.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 15, 2023

Before World War II broke out, an Osaka shipping line sailed it on a route from Japan to South America.

From New York Times • Apr. 22, 2023

I’m with a Norwegian shipping line; came over on business with the New York offices, but now I’m going straight back to Bergen.

From A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays by Cather, Willa Sibert