Sentence examples for single transhipment from inspiring English sources
With respect to the (Hoffmann et al. 2014) version of the LSBCI we replace the component reflecting the number of common connections that are reached with a single transhipment with the geometric mean of the number of direct connections for country in the pair.
Currently Swiss Split service is quite successful, although it still has several weaknesses (e.g. in the areas of rolling stock, transhipment terminal structures and the service production schemes for single wagon load i.e. SWL) that reduce its competitiveness compared to container distribution by road [2].
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.
Meanwhile, the ban on transhipment means that pole and line boats that usually stay out at sea for weeks will have to ferry their catch back to Indonesian ports, resulting in a crippling increase in fuel costs.
