[ noun ] the transfer from one conveyance to another for shipment <noun.act>
Transshipment \Trans*ship"ment\, n. The act of transshipping, or transferring, as goods, from one ship or conveyance to another. [Written also {transhipment}.]
Aside from the mainly transshipment traffic through Singapore, Malaysia is Britain's biggest export market in the South-East Asia region. Britain's exports to Malaysia have nearly trebled in value in the last five years, reaching Pounds 636m last year.
"We have seen an increase in Haiti being used as a transshipment point since we stepped up enforcement," said Hook.
A new worry, according to the CIA, is "the growing importance of the Caribbean as a drug-processing and transshipment point."
They are proposing long-term leases on select sites in the facility which they want to convert into a transshipment port and storage area similar to Kaoh-shiung in southern Taiwan.
The zone also does a brisk trade in transshipment of goods.