container ship

See also: containership

English

A container ship loading at port

Alternative forms

• containership

Noun

container ship (plural container ships)

1. (nautical) A cargo vessel designed to carry cargo prepacked into containers, especially shipping containers.

   Coordinate term: TEU

Related terms

• containerization
• containerload

 

Translations

cargo vessel

• Catalan: portacontenidors m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 集裝箱船／集装箱船 (zh) (jízhuāngxiāngchuán)

• Crimean Tatar: konteyner gemisi
• Dutch: containerschip (nl) n
• Finnish: konttilaiva (fi), konttialus (fi)
• French: porte-conteneurs (fr) m
• Georgian: კონტეინერმზიდი (ḳonṭeinermzidi), კონტეინერული ხომალდი (ḳonṭeineruli xomaldi)
• German: Containerschiff (de) n
• Greek: εμπορευματοκιβωτιοφόρο (el) n (emporevmatokivotiofóro), κοντέινερ (el) (kontéiner)
• Indonesian: kapal peti kemas
• Japanese: コンテナ船 (ja) (kontena-sen)
• Korean: 컨테이너선 (keonteineoseon)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: containerskip n, konteinerskip n

  Nynorsk: containerskip n, konteinarskip n

• Polish: kontenerowiec (pl) m
• Portuguese: porta-contentores m
• Russian: контейнерово́з (ru) m (kontɛjnerovóz)
• Spanish: portacontenedores (es) m
• Swedish: containerfartyg (sv) n
• Turkish: konteyner gemisi
• Ukrainian: контейнеровоз m (kontejnerovoz)
• Uzbek: konteyner kemasi