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Shipping
Relating to the mass transport of goods on massive cargo ships.
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capesize
Transportation; Shipping
A term used to describe a ship, usually a dry or wet bulker, that is too large to transit the canals and as a consequence must travel via the 'capes', ie Cape of Good Hope and Cape Horn.
cabotage policies
Transportation; Shipping
Reservation of a country's coastal (domestic) shipping for its own flag vessels.
cabotage
Transportation; Shipping
The carriage of goods or passengers for remuneration taken on at one point and discharged at another point within the territory of the same country.
cable ship
Transportation; Shipping
A specially constructed ship for the laying and repairing of telegraph and telephone cables across channels, seas, lakes, and oceans.
buoy
Transportation; Shipping
A floating object marking the navigable limits of channels, sunken dangers, isolated rocks, telegraph cables etc.
bunkers
Transportation; Shipping
Fuel consumed by the engines of a ship; compartments or tanks in a ship for fuel storage.
bulkhead
Transportation; Shipping
A name given to any vertical partition which separates different compartments or spaces from one another.
