The Collaborative International Dictionary
Transship \Trans*ship"\, v. t. [Pref. trans- + ship.] To transfer from one ship or conveyance to another. [Written also tranship.]
Wiktionary
alt. 1 (context transitive English) To transfer goods from one ship or other conveyance to another. 2 (context intransitive of goods English) To be transferred from one ship or other conveyance to another. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To transfer goods from one ship or other conveyance to another. 2 (context intransitive of goods English) To be transferred from one ship or other conveyance to another.
WordNet
v. transfer for further transportation from one ship or conveyance to another
[also: transshipping, transshipped, tranship]
See transship
[also: transhipping, transhipped]
Usage examples of "tranship".
It listed thirty-six tranship boxes that had passed through 19J2 at some point, along with their points of origin, shipper, receiver and supposed manifest.
The gravel they recovered had been stored, taken into Cartridge Bay in bulk, transhipped ashore to be processed at a land-based plant.
This, however, was an expedition that they never performed alone, making it each time in charge of Master Lirriper, who owned a flat barge, and took produce down to Bricklesey, there to be transhipped into coasters bound for London.
Lawrence--is not transhipped, seeing that the Welland Canal, which is less than thirty miles in length, gives a passage to vessels of 500 tons.
There was little industry besides transhipping produce for countless farming holds strewn across the inland plains, accessing the sea here by narrow-gauge solar railway.
The chips containing the tranship codes are crypted and self-verifying to prevent containers from being electronically hijacked en route.
An informant had given her a tranship code that had turned out to belong to a twenty-meter cargo container arriving from Tiamat.
Instead, the island schooners carry the produce up to Martinique, where it's transhipped.
Obviously the cutters collected freight from the smaller bays and harbours round the island and brought it to St George, where it was transhipped to me larger schooners plying between me islands.