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

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

     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.

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