transship

verb

trans·​ship tran(sh)-ˈship 

tran(t)s-

variants or less commonly tranship

transshipped also transhipped; transshipping also transhipping; transships also tranships

transitive verb

: to transfer for further transportation from one ship or conveyance to another

intransitive verb

: to change from one ship or conveyance to another

transshipment noun

or less commonly transhipment

tran(sh)-ˈship-mənt 

tran(t)s-

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web

Washington’s campaign in recent years included slapping punitive duties, in addition to the broad tariffs, on Chinese-origin goods from steel to furniture that the U.S. Commerce Department deemed to have been transshipped. —Chuin-wei Yap, WSJ, 26 June 2019

Methamphetamine is often smuggled from Laos, and commonly transshipped from Myanmar, where it is produced. —Bloomberg.com, 3 Apr. 2018

Canada first announced plans to strengthen the rules on diversion and transshipping last year but didn’t immediately bring them into force. —Kim Mackrael, WSJ, 27 Mar. 2018

The fuel is transshipped onto cheaper conventional vessels in northwest Europe at terminals with the facilities to do so, including the U.K.’s Isle of Grain. —Bloomberg.com, 19 Jan. 2018

The ports handle more than 40 percent of the waterborne freight entering the nation, and unloading container ships and transshipping their contents employ as many as 1.6 million Southern Californians. —Dan Walters, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Dec. 2017

Word History

First Known Use

1792, in the meaning defined at transitive sense