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Transship

Transship \Trans*ship"\, v. t. [Pref. trans- + ship.] To transfer from one ship or conveyance to another. [Written also tranship.]

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transship

vb. 1 (context transitive English) To transfer something from one vessel or conveyance to another for onward shipment. 2 (context intransitive of goods English) To be transferred from one vessel or conveyance to another for onward shipment.

WordNet
transship
  1. v. transfer for further transportation from one ship or conveyance to another

  2. [also: transshipping, transshipped, tranship]

Usage examples of "transship".

In the port of Palmas the archepiscopal party and their baggage were all transshipped to a waiting Genoan galleass, Spaventoso, all bristling with cannon.

But one December day she triumphantly announced to her mistresses that the goods had come to Christiania, had been transshipped there, and on this very day had arrived at Berlevaag.

The goods are transshipped through Port Perdusz, where our factors make special arrangements.

The suit sprawled loosely inside the net, as motionless and inactive as a cargo crate being transshipped in space.

He would have to kill us then no question of transshipping us to the ticonderoga.

I would have thought that you would want your crew at the maximum stage of efficiency for transshipping the gold when we met the fort ticonderoga.

About a third of the cargo would be offloaded in Alkazar because it could be transshipped inland as easily from there as from Pyron, and the rest would be dropped off at the Pyron stop as usual.

Local tobacco was to be sent from them to Bamberg City, to be assessed and transshipped.

Bock had found a ship heading to the right port, eliminating the need to transship at Rotterdam Qati disliked deviation from the plan, but a careful check of shipping schedules showed that the five days saved might be important, and he agreed to it He and Ghosn watched the gantry crane lift up the cargo container and move it onto the deck of the Carmen Vita, a Greek-flag container ship on the Mediterranean run She would sail on the evening tide, and arrive in the United States in eleven days They could have chartered a )et aircraft and done this, Qati thought, but it would have been too dangerous.

The more valuable cut lumber and peeled spars were loaded on flatboats and transshipped at any time of the year to the northern yards, whence they were carted away via the Trade Route during the dry seasons.

All our merchies will be JNMTC units, so we should make fast passages, but we'll have a layover of at least thirty-six hours in Casca to transship cargo.

Meanwhile Tarras was tucked down with the datadump from station files, looking for information—who might take the transship cans, who had what for sale and what the futures list and the methane-folk routings looked like.

So, as soon as carreras picks up the news of your sos, he gets rid of all the witnesses-permanently and sheers off, transships to this other vessel that's waiting and that's that.