'shipload' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is a noun that means a large amount or quantity that can be carried on a ship. It can be used in a general sense or in a more specific context, such as referring to goods or cargo being transported by ship. Example: The port was bustling with activity as the shipload of supplies arrived from overseas.
This week has seen a tiff over a shipload of explosives bound for Sudan, five al-Qaeda suspects collared in Malawi, four men charged for their alleged role in a suicide attack in Kenya, and a ban on flights between Kenya and Somalia, for fear that terrorists lurking in the latter might infiltrate the former.It sounds as if Osama bin Laden's platoons were furiously active in Africa.
The emerging markets are first in the queue for supplies because they are often able to use each extra barrel of oil or shipload of ore more gainfully.
As the central bank's Mr Stevens has put it, five years ago a shipload of iron ore would have bought about 2,200 flat-screen television sets; today it buys about 22,000.
Moving a shipload of containers from the north to the south of the United States, as happened in the voyage of the Ideal X, was itself cheaper than trucking the containers individually.
And Mr Mugabe's Chinese friends, foiled by southern African dockers who recently stopped a shipload of arms from reaching him, may be keeping their distance too.
The Met had been undercounting rapes, he said, by up to a quarter.In this section Keynes's new heirs Scotch on the rocks To the trough Importing them by the shipload Lighting down All mod Cons The wheel problem Not so boring One pastel gazebo, next-day delivery The rejects' revenge ReprintsSelect committees are increasingly the scene of such explosions.
So his intervention has provoked a flurry of Tory soul-searching: was this godfather of the "modernisation" project admitting defeat?In this section Keynes's new heirs Scotch on the rocks To the trough Importing them by the shipload Lighting down All mod Cons The wheel problem Not so boring One pastel gazebo, next-day delivery The rejects' revenge ReprintsIn part, he was.
Iron ore, set to become Australia's biggest export, fills scores of blue containers on the wharf side.Five years ago a shipload of iron ore bought 2,200 flatscreen TVs, says Glenn Stevens, governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA).
Last year around 18m of the ubiquitous 40-foot (12-metre) metal boxes entered America's ports in shiploads of up to 8,000 at a time.
Instead of receiving shiploads of liquefied gas and re-gasifying it, they should be taking American gas, liquefying it and loading it onto tankers.
But Mr Garnaut reckons this continued growth in output an early estimate by a big domestic bank puts current shiploads at "an all-time high"—is keeping Australia out of recession.
