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Transshipment

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The transfer of goods from one means of transport to another. countable, uncountable

    "Zero-emission zones and zero-fatality cities have eliminated the last-mile advantages of moving goods by road. The need for transshipment from trucks to vans or cargo bikes at the fringes of the urban core has meant that road has lost the advantage it held over rail for so much of the last 100 years."

  2. 2
    the transfer from one conveyance to another for shipment wordnet
  3. 3
    The shipment of goods via an intermediate destination. countable, uncountable

    "Its main export crop is cashew nuts, but drug money has flowed to corrupt officials as smugglers pay bribes to use the country’s coastline and remote airstrips for cocaine transshipments."

Etymology

From trans- + shipment.

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