shipper

Related to shipper: bill of lading

shipper

slang Someone who hopes for and/or supports a romantic pairing of two people, typically fictional characters from a TV show or movie. It is derived from the word "relationship." Meredith and Alex shippers really bug me. She's meant to be with McDreamy!
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • ship
  • shipping
  • OTP
  • one true pairing
  • big bad
  • endgame
  • (someone) is endgame
  • left-handed monkey wrench
  • fantasy
  • fantasy football
References in periodicals archive
Rutkowski listed the various benefits of initiative for both shippers and carriers, including:
Prospective shippers should contact Grant Najera, director of commercial pipelines for SemGroup, at 918-524-8525 or gnajera@semgroup.com, and Nick Dark, commercial asset manager for SemGroup at 918-524-7311 or ndark@semgroup.com.
This new mobility package is predicted to lead to increased logistics costs for carriers, and by extension, for shippers.
Company management believes that Clone Shipper is currently the only device that meets Canadian and Federal International laws governing the transportation of controlled, live plants.
The shipper is the party who starts the transportation process by the submission of the Shipping Order to the carrier for transport of the consignments to a determined destination.
If creditors accept the revised version on condition that the shipper can run business normally until next year, they will decide whether to convert around 700 billion won of 5.6 trillion won debt into equity.
Given the regulatory uncertainty as to whether FERC would be amenable to allowing oil pipelines to renegotiate rates with shippers, it is important for oil pipelines to adopt additional safeguards to protect themselves against the exposure created from shipper bankruptcies.
If the shipper succeeds in cutting the leasing rates for its chartered ships, it would clear one of the major hurdles to its survival.
* Pre-cool transport compartments to the shipper's standards
"We need to invest in people who can create what shippers are asking for.
It caters to the transportation and logistics needs of customers from various industries, among them manufacturing, construction, consumer products and retail.Country: USASector: Road Transport/Freight TransportTarget: Shipper Direct Logistics IncBuyer: Echo Global Logistics IncVendor: Billy and Angela SuddarthType: Corporate acquisitionStatus: Closed
Taiwan's second-largest container shipper, Yangming posted NT$9.399 billion in after-tax losses in 2011 due to slumping freightage on European-bound routes.
Additionally, under Carmack, a shipper is not required to select a forum for disputes at the time of contracting; arbitration is permissible only if the shipper agrees to arbitrate after the dispute has arisen.
Lincoln filed a rate case with the Surface Transportation Board (STB), which operates under a system that places the burden on the shipper filing the case, not on the railroad.