Merchant Vessel

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
MV
Pronunciation
/ˈmərʧənt ˈvɛsəl/
Category
Miscellaneous
Related Field
Shipping & Sailing

Examples in Context

  1. The crew of a merchant vessel.
  2. Somali man has admitted attacking a US warship in April after mistaking it for a merchant vessel.
  3. Atlantic Merchant Vessel(MV) Report System
  4. The first merchant vessel to sail from New York to Canton in 1784 was on a tea-buying voyage, but the cargo it had to exchange was ginseng.
  5. Somali pirates seized control of the German-owned merchant vessel Beluga Fortune in the Indian Ocean on Sunday, Reuters reports.

Other meanings of MV