A smaller container ship that carries boxes between smaller ports and big hub ports.
Feeders link ports like Kochi or Tuticorin to transshipment hubs such as Colombo or Singapore, where cargo moves to large mainline ships.
Related terms
- Transshipment — Moving cargo from one ship to another at an intermediate hub port.
- Mother vessel — A large mainline container ship sailing between hub ports on long routes.
- TEU — Twenty-foot equivalent unit: one 20-foot container. A 40-foot container is 2 TEU.