Definition of Transshipment center

1. Noun. A port where merchandise can be imported and then exported without paying import duties. "Bahrain has been an entrepot of trade between Arabia and India since the second millennium BC"

Exact synonyms: Entrepot
Generic synonyms: Port

Lexicographical Neighbors of Transshipment Center

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

Literary usage of Transshipment center

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)
"Finally, the opportunity for the creation of a great trade and transshipment center in New York may arise as a result of the smaller number of steamship ..."

2. International Commerce and Reconstruction by Elisha M. Friedman (1920)
"Copenhagen became a transshipment center. The official monthly summary of the foreign commerce of Denmark for October, 1918, gives the quantity or weight of ..."

3. International Narcotics Control Strategy Report, 1995 by DIANE Publishing Company (1995)
"(Medium-High) A major drug source and transshipment center, India also is a significant money laundering and money movement concern. ..."

4. The City and the World: New York's Global Future by Margaret E. Crahan, Alberto Vourvoulias-Bush (1997)
"... role as the most important port connecting the North American continent to Europe, and as a transshipment center between Europe and the Caribbean. ..."

5. Agricultural Marketing Directory for U.S. & Africa Trade by Mary E. Lassanyi, Wayne Olson (1997)
"Togo has a history of serving as a regional trade center. It has been an important transshipment center for goods going to Nigeria, Ghana, ..."

6. Iowa Journal of History by State Historical Society of Iowa (1922)
"... Cleveland, Erie, Chicago, and Milwaukee received nearly all of the remainder.38 Buffalo thus continued to be the great transshipment center — a position ..."

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