Transhipment

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Transhipment \Tran*ship"ment\, n.
     Same as {Transshipment}.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Transshipment \Trans*ship"ment\, n.
     The act of transshipping, or transferring, as goods, from one
     ship or conveyance to another. [Written also {transhipment}.]
     [1913 Webster]

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  TRANSHIPMENT, mar. law. The act of taking the cargo out of one ship and 
  loading it in another. 
       2. When this is done from necessity, it does not affect the liability 
  of an insurer on the goods. 1 Marsh. Ins. 166; Abbott on Ship. 240. But when 
  the master tranships goods without necessity, he is answerable for the loss 
  of them by capture by public enemies. 1 Gallis. R. 443.