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  1. ship·ping

    /ˈSHipiNG/

    noun

    • 1. ships considered collectively, especially those in a particular area or belonging to a particular country: "the volume of shipping using these ports"
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  3. Free shipping - Wikipedia

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    Free shipping is a marketing tactic used primarily by online vendors and mail-order catalogs as a sales strategy to attract customers. Online sales model ...

  4. Free Shipping Day - Wikipedia

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    Free Shipping Day is a one-day event held annually in mid-December. On the promotional holiday, consumers can shop from both large and small online merchants that offer free shipping with guaranteed delivery by Christmas Eve .

  5. Freight transport - Wikipedia

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    This map of shipping routes illustrates the relative density of commercial shipping in the world's oceans. Freight transport, also referred as freight forwarding, is the physical process of transporting commodities and merchandise goods and cargo. [1] The term shipping originally referred to transport by sea but in American English, it has been ...

  6. Freight forwarder - Wikipedia

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    A freight forwarder or forwarding agent is a person or a company who co-ordinates and organizes the movement of shipments on behalf of a shipper (party that arranges an item for shipment) by liaising with carriers (party that transports goods). The carriers may use a variety of shipping modes, including ships, airplanes, trucks, and railroads ...

  7. Today is Free Shipping Day — also known as every ... - AOL

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    Target offers free two-day shipping on hundreds of thousands of items for purchases over $35 (or if you use your RedCard). Much like Walmart and other brick-and-mortar retailers, you can order ...

  8. Every Day Is Free Shipping Day -- Now, How About Free Returns?

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    Free Shipping Day is officially Dec. 17, and for good reason: that's the last day many online retailers can guarantee So is Tuesday. And the day after that will be Free Shipping Day, too.

  9. Maersk Line - Wikipedia

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    Maersk Line is a Danish international container shipping company and the largest operating subsidiary of Maersk, a Danish business conglomerate.Founded in 1928, it is the world's second largest container shipping company by both fleet size and cargo capacity, offering regular services to 374 ports in 116 countries.

  10. Shipping (fandom) - Wikipedia

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    Shipping (derived from the word relationship) is the desire by followers of a fandom for two or more people, either real-life people or fictional characters (in film, literature, television series, etc.), to be in a romantic or sexual relationship. Shipping often takes the form of unofficial creative works, including fanfiction and fan art .

  11. Less-than-truckload shipping - Wikipedia

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    Less-than-truckload shipping or less than load (LTL) is the transportation of an amount of freight sized between individual parcels and full truckloads. Parcel carriers handle small packages and freight that can be broken down into units less than approximately 150 pounds (68 kg).

  12. FOB (shipping) - Wikipedia

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    FOB (free on board) is a term in international commercial law specifying at what point respective obligations, costs, and risk involved in the delivery of goods shift from the seller to the buyer under the Incoterms standard published by the International Chamber of Commerce. FOB is only used in non-containerized sea freight or inland waterway ...