Transport vs. Shipping — What's the Difference?

Transport (BE) or transportation (AE) is the movement of humans, animals, and goods from one location to another. In other words, the action of transport is defined as a particular movement of an organism or thing from a point A (a place in space) to a point B. Modes of transport include air, land (rail and road), water, cable, pipeline, and space.

The act or business of transporting goods.

Take or carry (people or goods) from one place to another by means of a vehicle, aircraft, or ship

An amount charged for transporting goods.

Overwhelm (someone) with a strong emotion, especially joy

The body of ships belonging to one port, industry, or country, often referred to in aggregate tonnage.

A system or means of conveying people or goods from place to place

Passage or transport on a ship.

An overwhelmingly strong emotion

The transportation of goods.

To move or carry (goods, for example) from one place to another; convey.

The body of ships belonging to one nation, port or industry; ships collectively.

To cause to feel strong emotion, especially joy; carry away; enrapture.

Passage or transport on a ship.

To send abroad to a penal colony; deport.

The cost of sending an item or package via postal services.

The act of transporting; conveyance.

Navigation.

The condition of being transported by emotion; joy or rapture.

Present participle of ship

A ship or aircraft used to transport troops or military equipment.

Relating to ships, their ownership, transfer, or employment; as, shiping concerns.

A vehicle, such as an aircraft, used to transport passengers, mail, or freight.

Relating to, or concerned in, the forwarding of goods; as, a shipping clerk.

The system of transporting passengers or goods in a particular country or area.

The act of one who, or of that which, ships; as, the shipping of flour to Liverpool.

The vehicles, such as buses and trains, used in such a system.

The collective body of ships in one place, or belonging to one port, country, etc.; vessels, generally; tonnage.

A deported convict.

Navigation.

To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey.

The commercial enterprise of transporting goods and materials

(historical) To deport to a penal colony.

Conveyance provided by the ships belonging to one country or industry

(figuratively) To move (someone) to strong emotion; to carry away.

An act of transporting; conveyance.

The state of being transported by emotion; rapture.

A vehicle used to transport (passengers, mail, freight, troops etc.)

(Canada) A tractor-trailer.

The system of transporting passengers, etc. in a particular region; the vehicles used in such a system.

A device that moves recording tape across the read/write heads of a tape recorder or video recorder etc.

(historical) A deported convict.

To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey; as, to transport goods; to transport troops.

To carry, or cause to be carried, into banishment, as a criminal; to banish.

To carry away with vehement emotion, as joy, sorrow, complacency, anger, etc.; to ravish with pleasure or ecstasy; as, music transports the soul.

Transportation; carriage; conveyance.

A vessel employed for transporting, especially for carrying soldiers, warlike stores, or provisions, from one place to another, or to convey convicts to their destination; - called also transport ship, transport vessel.

Vehement emotion; passion; ecstasy; rapture.

A convict transported, or sentenced to exile.

Something that serves as a means of transportation

An exchange of molecules (and their kinetic energy and momentum) across the boundary between adjacent layers of a fluid or across cell membranes

The commercial enterprise of transporting goods and materials

A state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion;

A mechanism that transport magnetic tape across the read/write heads of a tape playback/recorder

Move something or somebody around; usually over long distances

Move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body;

Hold spellbound

Transport commercially

Send from one person or place to another;