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transshipment
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Transshipment \Trans*ship"ment\, n. The act of transshipping, or transferring, as goods, from one ship or conveyance to another. [Written also transhipment.]
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context countable uncountable English) The transfer of goods from one means of transport to another. 2 (context uncountable countable English) The shipment of goods via an intermediate destination.
WordNet
n. the transfer from one conveyance to another for shipment
Wikipedia
Transshipment or transhipment is the shipment of goods or containers to an intermediate destination, then to yet another destination.
One possible reason for transshipment is to change the means of transport during the journey (e.g., from ship transport to road transport), known as transloading. Another reason is to combine small shipments into a large shipment (consolidation), dividing the large shipment at the other end (deconsolidation). Transshipment usually takes place in transport hubs. Much international transshipment also takes place in designated customs areas, thus avoiding the need for customs checks or duties, otherwise a major hindrance for efficient transport.
An item handled (from the shipper's point of view) as a single movement is not generally considered transshipped, even if it changes from one mode of transport to another at several points. Previously, it was often not distinguished from transloading, since each leg of such a trip was typically handled by a different shipper.
Transshipment is normally fully legal and an everyday part of world trade. However, it can also be a method used to disguise intent, as is the case with illegal logging, smuggling, or grey-market goods.
In information security, transshipment is a technique for protecting software services and applications by ensuring they only receive data that they are known to be able to handle safely. The term is analogous to that in the logistics industry where cargo is offloaded from one means of transport and on to another at a port of entry. With transshipment, information is extracted from the data used to send it and then encoded as data that can be handled safely.
Usage examples of "transshipment".
The shipments were bollixed, the transshipments were misrouted, and in the end, even the swizzleskid industries felt it.
The shipments were bollixed, the transshipments were misrouted and, in the end, even the swizzleskid industries felt it.
Moscow to Iceland Seven station, thence to the Septagonese transshipment outpost at Blaylock B.
If madam would follow me, her personal transshipment capsule is being readied now.
Eustatius had reaped the profits both as marketplace and as storehouse where goods waiting sale or transshipment could be safely housed against predatory foreign fleets in search of loot.
Aimed specifically at the Dutch to protect British trade against its most dangerous rival, the Act raised a wall of customs duties, and permitted transshipment of goods only in British bottoms calling at British ports.
You have one hour to prepare the unit for transshipment and combat training.
As Secretary of War Seddon had said, the place seemed more a transshipment point than a factory town.
There is no one who believes that the Iraqis have anything close to that many missiles, and that still does not account for the airfields, garrisons, and other transshipment facilities we would be using.
The only way on or off was in prisoner transshipments or on robot freighters lifting out the luxury exports.
With our contacts we can buy any amount of British, French or Prussian armaments--we've just signed an exclusive deal to represent Krupp's in the Far East--at better prices than Struan's can give you, have them delivered in Hawaii for transshipment to.
She was making a neater pile of deliveries and transshipment copies when she heard someone taking the Tower steps two at a time.
The Vaughns took the usual emigrant routing: winged shuttle rocket to the inner satellite station, ugly wingless ferry rocket to the outer station, transshipment there to the great globular cargo liner Hesperus.
Below the weather deck were forklift trucks for Istanbul and agricultural machinery for Varna in Bulgaria, part of a transshipment cargo that had come in from Amer.
Below the weather deck were forklift trucks for Istanbul and agricultural machinery for Varna in Bulgaria, part of a transshipment cargo that had come in from Amer-ica as far as Piraeus.