transship
verb
trans·ship
tran(sh)-ˈship 
tran(t)s-
variants
or less commonly tranship
transshipped also transhipped; transshipping also transhipping; transships also tranships
: to transfer for further transportation from one ship or conveyance to another
: to change from one ship or conveyance to another
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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.
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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
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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
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“Transship.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/transship. Accessed 10 Jul. 2025.
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