Transship (Verb)
Meaning
Transfer for further transportation from one ship or conveyance to another.
Classification
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming.
Examples
- Cargo was received from the supplier and then transshipped to the final destination on a different vessel.
- After customs clearance, the imports were transshipped to their respective regional warehouses.
- The ship waited at the port for three days to transship the cargo of spare parts to the smaller boats.
- Due to rough seas, the cargo vessel sailed to a different harbor to transship goods onto a larger vessel.
- It took a week to transship the entire shipment of electronics to the many smaller islands in the archipelago.