Definition of Transshipment

1. Noun. The transfer from one conveyance to another for shipment.

Generic synonyms: Conveyance, Transfer, Transferral, Transport, Transportation
Derivative terms: Transship

Definition of Transshipment

1. n. The act of transshipping, or transferring, as goods, from one ship or conveyance to another.

Definition of Transshipment

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

2. Noun. (uncountable countable) The shipment of goods via an intermediate destination. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Transshipment

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Transshipment

transseptal fibres
transshape
transshaped
transshapes
transshaping
transshift
transship
transshipment (current term)
transshipment center
transshipments
transshipped
transshipping
transships
transsonic
transsphenoidal
transsphenoidal adenomectomy
transstadial transmission
transsubstantiation
transsulfurase
transsulfuration
transsynaptic
transsynaptic chromatolysis

Literary usage of Transshipment

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. American Problems of Reconstruction: A National Symposium on the Economic by Elisha Michael Friedman (1918)
"Revival of transshipment in International Trade.—Finally, the opportunity for the creation of a great trade and transshipment center in New York may arise ..."

2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1889)
"... in the principal markets of the country whence the goods were imported, the cost of transportation, shipment and transshipment, with all the expenses ..."

3. Foreign trade and shipping by Erich Walter Zimmermann, W. C. Clark (1917)
"Today Hamburg is supreme in the transshipment trade with Russia and Scandinavia. ... The extent of London's transshipment trade can hardly be measured as a ..."

4. International Finance and Its Reorganization by Elisha Michael Friedman (1922)
"transshipment Trade An important element in the financial primacy of London is the huge volume of British foreign trade. The total trade of the United ..."

5. International Commerce and Reconstruction by Elisha M. Friedman (1920)
"(3) Reduction of the transshipment Business A splendid brief description of the changes of trade currents is given by a representative of WR ..."

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