Cruise Ships
Port Equipment
Nautical Terms
Famous Waterways
Supply Chain Logistics
100
This major cruise line features a distinctive red, white, and blue whale tailed shaped funnel on all of its ships. 
Carnival
100
Highly maneuverable vessels equipped with high-horsepower engines used to push, pull, and guide large ships into narrow berths.
Tugboat
100
Looking forward toward the front of the vessel, this is the term for the left-hand side.
Port
100
Opened in 1914, this Central American canal connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
Panama Canal
100
This standard unit of cargo capacity, abbreviated as TEU, is based on the volume of a standard 20-foot shipping container.
Twenty Foot Equivalent Unit
200
When a cruise ship is too large to dock, what are the small boats used to transport passengers to land called?
Tender boat
200
These heavy-duty, rubber tired gantry cranes straddle rows of shipping containers inside the yard to stack and organize them.
RTG Crane (Rubber-Tired Gantry Crane)
200
The unit of speed equal to one nautical mile per hour.
Knot
200
This Egyptian canal connects the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea, eliminating the need to sail around Africa.
Suez Canal
200
The short-distance trucking transport of containerized freight between a port terminal and a local warehouse or rail ramp.
Drayage
300
What is the name of the ship that is homeported in Norfolk, Virginia?
Carnival Sunshine
300
A heavy-duty, tall vehicle designed to carry a single container between its legs while moving it short distances across a container yard.
Straddle Carrier
300
The vertical distance between the waterline and the bottom of the ship's hull.
Draft
300
Opened in 1825, this famous North American canal connected the Great Lakes with the Hudson River and Atlantic Ocean.
Erie Canal
300
Penalties charged by a shipping line when an importer fails to pick up their filled container from the port terminal within the agreed free time.
Demurrage
400
Cruise ships do not measure their size primarily by weight, but by this unit of total internal volume.
Gross Tonnage
400
Large, air-filled rubber cushions or foam-filled bumpers hung along dock walls to absorb the impact of docking vessels.
Fenders
400
A heavy metal fitting on the deck of a ship or dock around which mooring lines are fastened in a figure-eight pattern.
Bollard or Cleat
400
In 2021, this massive 20,000-TEU container ship ran aground and wedged itself across the Suez Canal, blocking global trade for six days.
Ever Given
400
The official legal document issued by a carrier to a shipper that details the type, quantity, and destination of the goods, serving as a contract and receipt.
Bill of Lading
500
What was the name of Royal Caribbean's first ship, which set sail in 1970?
Song of Norway
500
Unlike standard forklifts that grab containers from above, this maneuverable heavy loader features a long telescoping hydraulic boom used to stack containers up to five rows deep or pull intermodal units directly off rail cars. 
Reach Stacker
500
The structural wall or partition inside a ship's hull that separates compartments and provides structural integrity.
Bulkhead
500
This German canal, completed in 1895, connects the North Sea with the Baltic Sea, bypassing the Danish peninsula.
Kiel Canal
500
Published trade terms maintained by the International Chamber of Commerce—such as FOB, CIF, or EXW—that define the buyer and seller responsibilities in international shipping.
Incoterms (International Commercial Terms)