Sentence examples for two transhipments from inspiring English sources

Note also that information on the number of transhipments necessary to connect any pair of countries is symmetric: if two transhipments are necessary to move containers from country C to country D, then the same number of transhipments is necessary to move containers in the opposite direction from D to C. The second step consists in merging the above dataset with a set of gravity variables.

In both years there were a few country pairs that required three transhipments.

As can be seen form Table 1, in 2013 around 20% of country pairs included in our sample were directly connected, 64% required at least one transhipment, 16% two transshipments.

In theory, making use of two or more transhipments, there are often hundreds of theoretical options to connect two countries.

In addition to the LSBCI itself and its components which are defined and discussed in detail in next section, two novel variables are retrieved from this data: a variable indicating the number of transhipments necessary to connect any pair of countries and, the effective maritime distance to be covered between any pair of countries.

Their estimates suggest that transhipment has the equivalent impact on freight rates as an increase in distance between two countries of 2612 km (Helble 2014, p. 2).

The bulk of the trade may involve as few as 100-200 shipping containers a year, 10 "chokepoint" transhipment ports, and three airports.

Amsterdam is also one of the biggest oil transhipment harbours of Europe.

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.

There are two facts which mainly contribute to competitive conditions: the continuous increase of the total cargo transferred and the spread of transhipment container flows.