Sentence examples for transhipped from inspiring English sources

Yet rail takes only 5m tonnes a year of the 100m-odd now crossing the frontier; for a start, because Spanish trains run on a wider gauge than in the rest of Europe, so the bogies have to be laboriously changed, or the goods transhipped, where the rival gauges meet.

As with all illicit dealers (he transhipped the cigars through Estonia and smuggled them from there into England, thus avoiding the hefty customs duty), I felt under an obligation to smoke enough to justify his risks.

If the new terminal ran at full capacity and dedicated itself to transhipping containers to India, that could rise to 28%, leaving the country dependent on a foreign-run choke point.Worse, critics argue, Sri Lanka has become ever chummier with China since the end of its civil war in 2009.