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  • verb Present participle of tranship.

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Examples

  • There just isn't and answer, unless there is some economic benefit under NAFTA from transhipping the gas via NL.

    Natural gas terminal on track: Turner Ed Hollett 2007

  • They also decided on strategies to help non-member key supplier and transhipping countries, and other interested countries, enhance their export controls.

    Australia Group Expands to Combat Chemical and Biological Weapons Proliferation 2004

  • 'A girl was transhipping a coffin at Munich - travelling with it between Berlin and Haifa.

    Funeral In Berlin Deighton, Len, 1929- 1964

  • It was almost flat, and if the transhipping between the interstellar vessels had been done by air, there would be no need to build a hard surface for the field.

    Dead Giveaway Randall Garrett 1957

  • After transhipping to the Donaldson liner _Saturnia_, which was nearly hit by bombs from an aeroplane, they were sent to Alexandria by the _Minnetonka_.

    The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918 F. L. Morrison

  • I know of is on board the large river steamers running up the Yangtse for six hundred miles from Shanghai to Hankow, and then transhipping to somewhat smaller vessels, for the additional four hundred miles to

    Life and sport in China Second Edition Oliver George Ready

  • The cable was slipped, my launch took her in tow, the pilot and myself took charge of the helm, and, before daylight, the prize was alongside my schooner, transhipping one hundred and ninety-seven of her slaves, with their necessary supplies.

    Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver Theodore Canot

  • These have in recent years proved especially adapted for the growth of the cacao, and the exports, especially from the island of St. Thomé, are very large; most of the crop finds its way to European markets, transhipping at Lisbon.

    The Food of the Gods A Popular Account of Cocoa Brandon Head

  • Then this bully of an agent tells me the contract has been changed -- read subparagraph 189-C or some such nonsense -- and I'll be transhipping.

    Planet of the Damned Harry Harrison

  • One gentleman told us that Eaton here never sends anything by boat to Toronto; they won't stand for the time; and a friend of mine in the railways tells me that if by transhipping of them they can get it cheaper by boat from Montreal they won't do it.

    The Ontario View of the St. Lawrence Waterway Scheme 1928

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