sealift
Ocean cargo delivery
Sealift is the transport of military personnel, equipment, and supplies by ship, especially in large-scale operations.
The term parallels airlift but emphasizes maritime logistics: The sealift delivered tanks and ammunition to the staging area.
As a verb, to sealift is to transport by sea: They sealifted three divisions to the combat zone.
Operating on land and water
- deploymentOrganized distribution of resources
- troopshipShip carrying military personnel
- taskforceTeam assembled for purpose
- battlegroupCombined military unit
marines · expeditionary · reinforcement · landing · assault · operation · maneuver · brigade
Goods being transported
- shipmentGoods being transported
- goodsThings for sale
- bulkMain mass or size
- commoditiesTradeable raw materials
consignment · lading · vehicles · tanks · machinery · petroleum · ammunition · provisions
Objects for holding things
- cranesLifting machines or birds
- docksShip mooring structures
- warehousingStoring goods commercially
- supply-chainProduction-to-consumer pathway
customs · clearance · intermodal · scheduling · dispatch · pallets · consolidation · stevedore
Carriers or containers
- freighterVessel for transporting goods
- tankerVessel for liquid bulk
- bargeFlat freight vessel
- auxiliaryGiving additional support
charter · requisitioned · surge · commercial · converted · mothballed · activated
amphibious
Operating on land and water
- deploymentOrganized distribution of resources
- troopshipShip carrying military personnel
- taskforceTeam assembled for purpose
battlegroup · marines · expeditionary · reinforcement · landing · assault · operation · maneuver · brigade · commando
freight
Goods being transported
commodities · consignment · lading · vehicles · tanks · machinery · petroleum · ammunition · provisions · oversized
containers
Objects for holding things
- cranesLifting machines or birds
- docksShip mooring structures
- warehousingStoring goods commercially
supply-chain · customs · clearance · intermodal · scheduling · dispatch · pallets · consolidation · stevedore · loading
vessels
Carriers or containers
auxiliary · charter · requisitioned · surge · commercial · converted · mothballed · activated
relief
Easing of distress
crisis · refugees · medicine · tents · blankets · water · evacuation · famine · earthquake · reconstruction
- logisticsshipping, delivery, warehouses, warehousing, shipment
- Maritime Transportcargo ships, container ships, ferries, freighters, tankers
- carryingcarry, carrying, tote, bearing, haul
- military logisticssupply depots, supply lines, supply depot, resupply, supply ships
- military supportmedical services, transportation, communications, engineering, logistics
- Military Transportconvoy, troop transport, airlift, troopship, transport plane
sealiftairlift
Emergency transport by plane
air transport · airbridge · air cargo · airdrop · rail transport