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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"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Transshipment Center
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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