Sentence examples for transshipment center from inspiring English sources

On Africa's east coast, Kenya's port city of Mombasa is a major transshipment center.

Marijuana has traditionally been used in Jamaica, but more sinister, the island is increasingly used as a transshipment center by Colombian dealers feeding America's insatiable demand for narcotics.

Another theory is that the assailants may have been working for drug lords (Karachi is a major transshipment center for heroin) who the United States wants extradited to face trial here.

Blitar is a trade and transshipment centre for commodities including coffee, rice, sugar, rubber, peanuts (groundnuts), and cassava.

In the late 20th century Panama became a major transshipment centre for smuggling narcotics such as Colombian cocaine and heroin.

The report from the Angola sanctions committee's investigative panel, set up by the Canadian ambassador, Robert Fowler, cited not only diamond merchants in Belgium, but also arms brokers in South Africa, weapons suppliers in Bulgaria and African leaders who let their countries be used as deal-making centers, transshipment points or refuges, in exchange for diamonds.

Singapore is a major refining center and transshipment point for crude oil shipments between markets in East Asia and the other oil-rich Gulf region.

Tegal is a centre for transshipment of agricultural produce, and major exports include sugar and fish.

The city is a centre of trade and transshipment for rice, corn (maize), rubber, cassava, coffee, cacao, and cinchona.

It was also a transshipment place for grain, tea, tobacco, hides, and meat from northern Yunnan.

Some agents turn a blind eye to labor code violations or transshipment of garments in evasion of quota rules.