shipping container

English

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. Various types exist, including reefer versions.
   • 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).

Related terms

• containerization
• containerload

Translations

box used for transportation of materials

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 貨櫃 / 货柜 (fo³ gwai⁶)

  Mandarin: 集裝箱 / 集装箱 (zh) (jízhuāngxiāng), 貨運包裝箱 / 货运包装箱 (huòyùn bāozhuāngxiāng), 貨櫃 / 货柜 (zh) (huòguì)

• Finnish: kontti (fi)
• Khmer: កុងតឺន័រដឹកជញ្ជូន (kŏngtœnôrdœ̆kchônhchun)
• Swedish: fraktcontainer c
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: công-te-nơ (vi)

See also

• intermodal