transshipment

Etymology

trans- + shipment

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable) The transfer of goods from one means of transport to another.
  2. (uncountable, countable) The shipment of goods via an intermediate destination.
    Its main export crop is cashew nuts, but drug money has flowed to corrupt officials as smugglers pay bribes to use the country’s coastline and remote airstrips for cocaine transshipments. March 3, 2009, Lydia Polgreen, “Soldiers Kill Guinea-Bissau’s President After Death of Army Chief, Diplomats Say”, in New York Times

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