1.
Shipping is the transport of cargo as a business, especially on ships.
...the international ~ industry...
The Greeks are still powerful players in world ~.
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2.
You can refer to the amount of money that you pay to a company to transport cargo as ~.
It is $39.95 plus $3 ~.
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3.
You can refer to ships as ~ when considering them as a group.
They sent naval forces to protect merchant ~.
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