1. the amount of cargo or passengers that a ship can carry or is carrying

Examples

• The merchant vessel carried a shipload of grain to the port.
• A shipload of tourists arrived at the island yesterday.
• The company ordered a shipload of raw materials from overseas.
• The cargo ship can handle a shipload of containers.
• They received a shipload of supplies for the relief effort.
• The shipload of oil was delivered to the refinery on schedule.