ship-broker

British  

noun

1. a person who acts for a shipowner by getting cargo and passengers for his ships and also handling insurance and other matters

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Example Sentences

Her papers, bills of lading, charter-party, assurance policy, were all in order, and two days before the ship-broker had sent on the last signatures.

From Godfrey Morgan A Californian Mystery by Verne, Jules

“List A,” a large leather-bound volume, was brought in and laid upon the table before the ship-broker, who at once opened it, and began to run his fingers slowly down an index.

From The Voyage of the Aurora by Collingwood, Harry

She knew perfectly well that the highest professorship could only earn in a year what an ordinary ship-broker made in a month.

From The Malady of the Century by Nordau, Max Simon

Poor Marie was profoundly affected by this generosity, and the charming blushfulness, the sweet-toned trembling words that expressed her modest gratitude, were, it should seem, strangely interpreted by the excited ship-broker.

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 459 Volume 18, New Series, October 16, 1852 by Chambers, Robert

A brass plate said, "R. Bartley, ship-broker and commission agent"; but the man was evidently a ship-owner and a carrier besides; so this miscellaneous shop roused hopes in our versatile hero.

From A Perilous Secret by Reade, Charles