[f. TRANS- + SHIPMENT, or f. prec. + -MENT.] The action or process of transhipping or changing from one ship or other conveyance to another.
1796. Vaughan, Examination, 13. Landing a ship’s cargo … with as few intermediate trans-shipments as possible.
1813. Wellington, in Gurw., Desp. (1839), XI. 218. I am obliged to go through the details of all the orders for the transhipment.
1846. Warburton, Hochelaga, I. 259. The frequent locks and trans-shipment of the cargo must ever be a great embarrassment.
1856. Farmer’s Mag., Nov., 424. The inconvenience of two transshipments, one at each end of the Erie Canal.
1885. Ld. Blackburn, in Law Rep., 10 App. Cas. 419. The cost of transhipment or reshipment, as the case may be.
1899. Statesman (Calcutta), 27 Sept. There exists communication by train from Siliguri to Gyabari with one transhipment.
attrib. 1892. Pall Mall G., 24 Nov., 2/1. I refer especially to the transhipment trade.
1899. Westm. Gaz., 20 Dec., 9/1. Heavy dock charges [etc.] have lost the port the bulk of the transhipment business.
