The feeder ship enters the picture wherever mainline vessels are too large or too deep-drafted to call: it collects containers from smaller or regional ports and delivers them to a major hub terminal for transhipment onto deep-sea carriers.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feeder_ship
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