transshipment
IPA: trænʃˈɪpmʌnt
noun
- (countable, uncountable) The transfer of goods from one means of transport to another.
- (uncountable, countable) The shipment of goods via an intermediate destination.
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Examples of "transshipment" in Sentences
- Transshipment at a break of gauge.
- Cyprus is the greatest transshipment point.
- Also, the process of transshipment is costly.
- The key was the mechanization of the transshipments.
- The Port of Singapore is a so-called transshipment port.
- Fairport was a transshipment point for cattle and timber.
- By the 1840s it was used as a transshipment point in the fur trade.
- As a result, PSA priced itself out of the market for transshipment.
- Venezuela has become a huge transshipment hub for Colombian cocaine.
- Shalimar still serves as an important transshipment point in Kolkata.
- It is a railway junction on two gauges, and is also a transshipment hub.
- In the segment of transshipment Hamburg was in a leading position in 2004.
- It stores and processes the oil and gas prior to transshipment to our onshore facility.
- He hopes to double Air Canada's transshipment traffic this year but declined to provide figures.
- Excised, as well, was language that would have barred the "transshipment" through the United States of IP infringing goods.
- Part of that effort involves promoting Air Canada in the transshipment business: moving passengers from one country, through a so-called gateway nation, to a third country.
- Known as "Pineapple Face" for his acme scars, Mr. Noriega was sentenced to 30 years in 1992 for turning Panama into a transshipment and money laundering center for Colombian drug traffickers.
- Also likely to end up on the cutting-room floor is language targeting goods in "transshipment" - that is, passing through the US on their way to a final foreign destination-that infringe American IP laws.
- Sources saying to me that, in fact, this has been a pattern of activity, this kind of transshipment of weapons through Syria to Hezbollah over the last several years, with no action or retaliation taken against it.
- In some cases, it said, they shipped the products via third countries and then "falsely designating it as the country of origin to evade the duties," a practice termed transshipment, the coalition charged in a statement.