Transshipment

3 definitions found

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 WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  transshipment
       n : the transfer from one conveyance to another for shipment

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  33 Moby Thesaurus words for "transshipment":
     air express, airfreight, airlift, asportation, bearing, carriage,
     carry, carrying, cartage, conveyance, drayage, expressage,
     ferriage, freight, freightage, haulage, hauling, lighterage,
     lugging, packing, portage, porterage, railway express, shipment,
     shipping, telpherage, toting, transport, transportation, truckage,
     waft, waftage, wagonage