shipping

shipping
Delivering goods or merchandise to a carrier for transportation. The business of transportation, especially by water. The instrumentalities of transportation by water, their regulation, ownership and employment and the rights and liabilities connected with or growing out of them.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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