Which Is Correct Transshipment or Transhipment?

Transshipment (sometimes also trans-shipment or transhipment) means the unloading of goods from one ship and its loading into another to complete a journey to a further destination, even when the cargo may have to remain ashore some time before its onward journey.

Is transshipment a word?

Transshipment or transhipment is the shipment of goods or containers to an intermediate destination, then to another destination. One possible reason for transshipment is to change the means of transport during the journey (e.g., from ship transport to road transport), known as transloading.

Is it tranship or transship?

As verbs the difference between transship and tranship

is that transship is to transfer something from one vessel or conveyance to another for onward shipment while tranship is to transfer goods from one ship or other conveyance to another.

Robert Thorne

Robert Thorne

Automotive & Future Transportation Editor

Robert Thorne covers electric vehicle innovations, autonomous driving systems, global mobility trends, and automotive engineering developments.