supply convoy
Cargo transport column
A supply convoy is a group of vehicles traveling together to transport provisions, equipment, or materials to a destination.
The term appears most often in military contexts, where convoys move supplies through hostile or contested territory: The supply convoy was ambushed on the mountain road.
Civilian uses include humanitarian aid deliveries and commercial trucking operations.
- caravanTraveling group with goods
- trucksHeavy cargo vehicles
- militaryArmed forces collectively
- cargoTransported goods
- escortOne who accompanies another
provisions · fuel · route · logistics · ammunition · reinforcements · aid · humanitarian · relief effort · dusty · column · vehicles · shipment · delivery · protection · ambush · safe passage · desert
- convoysmotorcade, caravan, fleet, wagon train, armada
- Military Transporttroop transport, airlift, sealift, troopship, transport plane
- polar operationsice roads, ice station, research station, icebreakers, research base
- reinforcementsrelief force, reserve team, reinforcement, second wave, replacements
- logisticsshipping, delivery, warehouses, warehousing, shipment
- supplystock, provisions, stockpile, reserve, stores
supply convoycombat unit
Organized military fighting group
raiding party · battle group · fighter squadron · strike force · strike team
supply, convoy, supplies, supplied, supplying, supplier, suppliers, convoys, convoyed