Terminology record for merchant shipping
| Record No.: | 93/en/169 |
| Author: | ELAD D. F. |
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| Last updated: | 2024-02-13 00:00:00 |
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| TERM | * Merchant shipping status: recommended
* merchant marine (noun) status: accepted * merchant navy (noun) status: accepted * mercantile marine (noun) status: accepted * commercial shipping (noun) status: accepted * commercial navy (noun) status: accepted | ||||||||||||
| PART OF SPEECH | noun | ||||||||||||
| PLURAL | Merchant shipping ; merchant marine ; merchant navies ; mercantile marines ; commercial shipping ; commercial navies. ; | ||||||||||||
| ETYMOLOGY | Merchant shipping, merchant marine, merchant navy, mercantile marine, commercial shipping are all synonyms for the same concept, which originated at different times in the past. The earliest term for this concept is mercantile marine, which originated in the 18th century and became the first widely recognised term in the 1840’s. With time, several other synonyms arose to shade this term - though it is still used to date. The most popular of them all, merchant marine, probably emerged in the 19th century precisely before the 1860’s and grew popular gradually till it flew high in the 1920s and 1940s probably due to advancement in the maritime transport during that era (see the graph above). Some ancient publication employing the word merchant marine are 'A New and Complete System of Modern Geography ... With a Brief Sketch of the Origin, History, and Antiquities of Each Nation ... Illustrated, Etc' (page 501) By Eneas Mackenzie (Bookseller, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.) published in 1817; 'Maritime Geography and Statistics', published in 1815, in London by James Hingston Tuckey, an Irish-born British explorer and a captain in the Royal Navy. Commercial navy, a now archaic and obsolete term, originated in the 18th century. One popular early book that used the term commercial navy is 'The Naval Chronicle, Containing a General and Biographical History of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom, with a Variety of Original Papers on Nautical Subjects', Volume 9, published by Joyce Gold on 30th June 1803 in London. Merchant shipping is the second most used word nowadays for this concept, after merchant marine. It originated long before the 17th century with an early publication, 'Consuetudo, Vel Lex Mercatoria, Or The Antient Law-Merchant Divided Into Three Parts: According Tot the Essentiall Parts of Traffique ...' (mechant shipping was used on page 194) published by Gerard de Malynes in 1629
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| DEFINITION |
Branch of aquatic navigation, which deals with all means of transport of cargo or civilian passengers for hire (as a business) using merchant sea vessels whether privately or publicly owned. It is shipping which is involved in commerce (rather than defence, leisure, recreation, etc.) | ||||||||||||
| DEFINITION SOURCE | https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/merchant-shipping ; ; | ||||||||||||
| USAGE EXAMPLE | Ordinance No. 62-0F-30 of March 31, 1962 on the Code of Merchant Marine Fishing in Cameroun, article 2, paragraph 5 : " The merchant navy services in Douala centralise all registration, fitting-out and listing operations. " | ||||||||||||
| Notes |
BrE: Merchant navy;
AmE: Merchant marine. Merchant shipping includes cargo ships, passenger ships, and tankers. Cargo ships can be either liners, which travel on established routes at regular intervals between specified ports; or tramps, which instead take cargo where and when it offers and to any port. Some of the newer types of cargo ships are bulk carriers, which transport ores or other dry cargoes in bulk; container ships, which handle standardized containers in a highly mechanized fashion
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