transshipment

plural transshipments

1. countableuncountableThe transfer of goods from one means of transport to another.

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   Zero-emission zones and zero-fatality cities have eliminated the last-mile advantages of moving goods by road. The need for transshipment from trucks to vans or cargo bikes at the fringes of the urban core has meant that road has lost the advantage it held over rail for so much of the last 100 years.

   2025 October 1, Gareth Dennis, “The future: a new role for a new British Rail: 2030s”, in RAIL, number 1045, page 30

   Synonyms: transloading

2. countableuncountableThe shipment of goods via an intermediate destination.

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

   2025 April 28, “Reciprocal Tariff Calculations”, in Office of the United States Trade Representative

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   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.

   2009 March 3, Lydia Polgreen, “Soldiers Kill Guinea-Bissau’s President After Death of Army Chief, Diplomats Say”, in The New York Times

   Every year, the United States loses tens of billions of dollars to the illegal transshipment of goods from higher-tariff countries through more than 40 lower-tariff jurisdictions before those goods enter the American market.

   2026 August 28, The White House, The Great Transshipment Scam: Rise, Scope, and Costs, archived from the original on 14 Aug 2026, page 3