tranship
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Splendid news came along on the 9th to the effect that the New Zealand Government's steamer 'Tutanekai' would tranship our stores from the 'Rachel Cohen' on the 15th and sail direct for the island.
From The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 by Sir Douglas Mawson
We experience the greatest possible inconvenience from the change, both as regards passengers and goods; coals we have not attempted to tranship.
From Report of the Railway Department of the Board of Trade on the London, Worcester, and Wolverhampton, and on the Birmingham and Shrewsbury Districts by Samuel Laing
We left England at the beginning of November 1894, and at Aden, where we were obliged to tranship, we picked up our camp furniture, which we had deposited there on our return from Wadi Hadhramout.
From Southern Arabia by Theodore Bent
Oliver agreed with them that they should tranship three or four of their number into the second mate's boat.
From Tessa 1901 by Louis Becke
And perhaps, from Tokyo or Shanghai it would be possible to tranship into some other line and drip down to the islands of the South Pacific.
From Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham
The EU and 23 nations around the Mediterranean have signed an agreement, which states that those species cannot be "retained on board, transhipped, landed, transferred, stored, sold or displayed or offered for sale".
From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2025
But many Vietnamese industries use components imported from China, and have no clear definition for what Washington considers "transhipped" goods or what percentage of its parts must be locally produced to avoid higher taxes.
From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2025
For instance, transhipped goods have been specifically levied as part of Vietnam's trade deal with the US.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2025
The coffin was transhipped in solemn state across Berlin.
From Time Magazine Archive
We transhipped at Townsville into a dirty old tub belonging to another company and left about noon for Cairns.
From From Chart House to Bush Hut Being the Record of a Sailor's 7 Years in the Queensland Bush by Charles W. L. Bryde
Kazakhstan has close ties with China, supplying minerals, metals and energy to its eastern neighbour and transhipping goods between China and Europe.
From Reuters ● Sep. 5, 2022
Enormous hogsheads are shipped on the boats, and the transhipping them is often a dangerous business, if we may judge from our own experiences.
From The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia by F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton) Jackson
If I am not mistaken she is the British man-o’-war schooner Gadfly, and her presence yonder affords Captain Tourville an opportunity to fulfil his promise of transhipping me.
From A Middy of the Slave Squadron A West African Story by D.L. Mays
At daybreak the work of transhipping the cargo was proceeded with before the miasmic mists that hid the shore had dispersed.
From Rounding up the Raider A Naval Story of the Great War by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
After transhipping to the Donaldson liner Saturnia, which was nearly hit by bombs from an aeroplane, they were sent to Alexandria by the Minnetonka.
From The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918 by F. L. Morrison
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