The word 'transhipment' is correct and usable in written English.
It is a noun that means the process of transferring goods or passengers from one mode of transportation to another during a journey. Example: "The cargo ship had to make a transhipment at the port to transfer its containers onto a larger vessel for the remainder of the journey."
Colombo is a "transhipment" hub for India: big ships unload containers there and feeder boats take these to India's often crummy ports.
Haiti is a busy transhipment point for Colombian cocaine bound for the United States.
A sign of how out of touch Mr Aristide, a former priest, had become with the poor is the $350,000 in rotting, unusable $100 bills that looters found in a secret chamber under his house.Haiti has long been a drugs transhipment point for Colombian cocaine traffickers.
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.
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.
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.
The bulk of the trade may involve as few as 100-200 shipping containers a year, 10 "chokepoint" transhipment ports, and three airports.
America is one of the top destinations of illegal ivory from Africa, as well as an important transhipment point for the carved ivory trinkets bound ultimately for the leading markets in China, Japan, Thailand and other Asian countries.
When a large container-transhipment port at Gioia Tauro, about five miles north of Palmi, opened ten years ago, mafiosi demanded protection money from its operators.
Perhaps that is because the country is important to China above all for future transhipments of gas, the plans for which are still going ahead, with a pipeline under construction.
Transhipments at sea – where smaller boats offload their catch on to larger foreign vessels with cold storage facilities – have also been banned, in a bid to prevent neighbouring countries from siphoning off fish illegally.
