{
  "id": "shipping.transport",
  "term": "shipping",
  "sense": "transport",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 6,
  "arena": "shipping",
  "domain": "transport",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "the change of products from one place to another by carrying",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "products.goods",
      "carrying.transporting",
      "space.extent",
      "change.process",
      "motion.movement"
    ],
    "interaction": "products move to another place by carrying",
    "novel_properties": [
      "displacement under control",
      "continuous path of transfer",
      "intentional relocation"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "Maersk Line transported 12 million containers globally in 2023 across 710 vessels.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 2021 Suez Canal blockage halted $9.6 billion in shipping per day.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "Amazon operates 200 delivery stations worldwide to ship packages within one day.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "carrying.transporting",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "delivery.service"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "ship",
    "shipped",
    "shipping",
    "ships"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Added 'change.process' and 'motion.movement' to align components with the definition. Both are constitutive: change for the transformation of state, motion for the movement inherent in transport."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-shipping.transport"
}