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transshipment en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-der. Proto-Indo-European *térh₂t Proto-Indo-European *-ónts Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂ónts Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂n̥ts Proto-Italic *trāns Proto-Italic *trāns- Latin trans-bor. English trans- English ship Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom Proto-Italic *-mentom Latin -mentum Old French -mentbor. Middle English -ment English -ment English shipment English transshipment From trans- + shipment.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The transfer of goods from one means of transport to another.
   • Zero-emission zones and zero-fatality cities have eliminated the last-mile advantages of moving goods by road. The need for transshipment from trucks to vans or cargo bikes at the fringes of the urban core has meant that road has lost the advantage it held over rail for so much of the last 100 years. 2025 October 1, Gareth Dennis, “The future: a new role for a new British Rail: 2030s”, in RAIL, number 1045, page 30:
2. (countable, uncountable) The shipment of goods via an intermediate destination.
   • Higher minimum rates might be necessary to limit heterogeneity in rates and reduce transshipment. 2025 April 14, “Reciprocal Tariff Calculations”, in Office of the United States Trade Representative:
   • 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”, in The New York Times:
   • Every year, the United States loses tens of billions of dollars to the illegal transshipment of goods from higher-tariff countries through more than 40 lower-tariff jurisdictions before those goods enter the American market. 2026 August 14, The White House, The Great Transshipment Scam: Rise, Scope, and Costs, archived from the original on 14 Aug 2026, page 3:

Forms

Deriveds

transshipment point

Synonyms

transloading

Translations (13)

mk префрлу́вање (The transfer of goods) · nl doorvoer (The transfer of goods) · ro transbordare (The transfer of goods) · nb omlasting (The transfer of goods) · mk претовару́вање (The transfer of goods) · nn omlasting (The transfer of goods) · es transbordo (The transfer of goods) · pl przeładunek (The transfer of goods) · id pemunggahan (The transfer of goods) · id pindah muatan (The transfer of goods) · bg претоварване (The transfer of goods) · da omlasting (The transfer of goods) · mk пре́товар (The transfer of goods)