transshipment
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transshipment (countable and uncountable; plural transshipments)
- (countable, uncountable) The transfer of goods from one means of transport to another.
- (uncountable, countable) The shipment of goods via an intermediate destination.
- 2009 March 3, Lydia Polgreen, “Soldiers Kill Guinea-Bissau’s President After Death of Army Chief, Diplomats Say”, New York Times:
- 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.
- 2009 March 3, Lydia Polgreen, “Soldiers Kill Guinea-Bissau’s President After Death of Army Chief, Diplomats Say”, New York Times:
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The transfer of goods
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