shipping container

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Noun
A standard shipping container.

shipping container (plural shipping containers)

  1. (international commerce) A standardized reusable steel box used for the storage and transportation of materials and products within a freight transport system.
    • 2023 March 8, Gareth Dennis, “The Reshaping of things to come...”, in RAIL, number 978, page 48:
      Internationally, the shipping container had already proven its worth, and by the early 1960s battles were being fought over what their standardised dimensions would be (their expected proliferation was not in question).

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