Sentence examples for major transhipment from inspiring English sources
Dubai provides an interesting case study, as it currently hosts the major transhipment hubport of the region.
The city has undertaken major infrastructural projects in a bid to secure its role as a major transhipment hub and logistics command centre, while also developing a rail-based mass transit system.
Selby was the upper limit for seagoing ships at the time, and became a major transhipment port for the smaller boats using the canal.
Haiti is a busy transhipment point for Colombian cocaine bound for the United States.
Transhipment via Gioia Tauro can save a week, he says, which is not to be sniffed at when delivering, say, a container full of laptop computers.
Colombo is a "transhipment" hub for India: big ships unload containers there and feeder boats take these to India's often crummy ports.
But that demand was overcome, the port thrived and Gioia Tauro has vied with Algeciras in recent years to be the Mediterranean's biggest transhipment hub.
The bulk of the trade may involve as few as 100-200 shipping containers a year, 10 "chokepoint" transhipment ports, and three airports.
Officials said the Department of Homeland Security planned to place teams of inspectors that would remain indefinitely in Dubai, the Persian Gulf emirate that is a crucial transhipment point for containerized cargo in the Arab world; Malaysia Turkeyy and other Muslim nations.
