transshipment

From trans- +‎ shipment.

transshipment (countable and uncountable, plural transshipments)

1. (countable, uncountable) The transfer of goods from one means of transport to another.

   Synonym: transloading

2. (uncountable, countable) The shipment of goods via an intermediate destination.
   • 2009 March 3, Lydia Polgreen, “Soldiers Kill Guinea-Bissau’s President After Death of Army Chief, Diplomats Say”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     Its main export crop is cashew nuts, but drug money has flowed to corrupt officials as smugglers pay bribes to use the country’s coastline and remote airstrips for cocaine transshipments.

   • 2025 April, “Reciprocal Tariff Calculations”, in Office of the United States Trade Representative‎^[2]:

     Higher minimum rates might be necessary to limit heterogeneity in rates and reduce transshipment.

• transshipment point

• transhipments