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transshipment
noun
The transfer of goods from one means of transport to another.
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'transshipment' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is a noun that refers to transferring goods from one ship or vehicle to another during transport. For example: The transshipment of containers from the ferry to the train was completed in record time.
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The policy, says Ms Reineke, often "forces people to choose between social death and the risk of physical death .Mexico may no longer be a big net exporter of people, but it is increasingly a transshipment point for migrants from Central America.
Lots of cargo will be unloaded onto smaller ships at a few "transshipment" hubs, before being shipped to their final destinations, and several Caribbean islands are vying for the business (see map).Hong Kong-based Hutchison Port Holdings has been ready for years.
Big container ships call at transshipment ports such as Kingston in Jamaica or Freeport on Grand Bahama.
Salalah, down the coast south from Duqm, has been growing fast as a transshipment port.
To make further gains, especially in the ultra price-sensitive transshipment market, Portugal needs to steer past two obstructions: powerful service providers and unionised workers.Getting private firms to compete at ports is tricky.
Containerisation has also boosted Panama's use as a transshipment point.
But a major transshipment role is blocked by the American trade embargo: ships which have been to Cuba are barred for six months from American ports.
The development of Arctic shipping-lanes will also be made easier with good regional relations: there is talk of either Iceland or Norway developing a transshipment port to serve Russia's north-eastern route.The message is clear: welcome to the new world of the warming Arctic.
The giant container port and free zone it has built at Salalah looks set to capture a growing share of the Indian Ocean transshipment business.
Both St Vincent and Jamaica have been producing ganja in quantity for decades, and are now graduating to transshipment of cocaine.Jamaica's sugar producers will probably be wiped outNow it is the turn of sugar.
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Historically a fishing and lumbering centre, the village now serves as a titanium ore-transshipment port; the ore is transported from the mines at Lac Allard and loaded aboard ships bound for Sorel-Tracy.
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