Netherlands is one of the oldest coffee countries of Europe, and for centuries has been a great transhipping agent, distributing coffee from her East Indian possessions and from America among her northern neighbors.
Trade in coffee is a transhipping trade, Singapore acting as a clearing center for large quantities of coffee from the neighboring islands.
Aden is a greattranshipping port for coffee from Asia and Africa, and more than half its exports are re-exports from points outside of Arabia.
Then came the work of transhipping stores from the capacious holds of the South American vessel.
At daybreak the work of transhipping the cargo was proceeded with before the miasmic mists that hid the shore had dispersed.
This promised a long, wearisome voyage across the Atlantic, and doubly justified me in transhipping the treasure to the schooner.
The men went to work cheerily; easily divining my motive for transhipping the treasure, and being, of course, each in his own degree, as anxious for its safety as I was.
Some members of the Council were sceptical about the possibility of transhipping the cargo at sea, but Crawford, who had fully discussed it with Agnew, believed that if favoured by calm weather it could be done.
Much has been done in this direction by the leading companies in the setting up of transhipping depôts and otherwise, and substantial economies have been effected thereby.
Among the groups thus scattered about, there was one smack which had quietly joined the fleet when the men were busy transhipping or "ferrying" the fish to the steam-carrier.
At the same time the boat of the Lively Poll was launched into the sea, Duffy and Freeman and another hand tumbled into her, and the skipper had to give his undivided attention to the all-important matter of transhipping the fish.
The wind was fresh enough to raise a slight sea, causing the two vessels to chafe considerably as they lay closely locked together for the purpose of transhipping the coal.
The Great Western Railway Company, for example, have already several large transhipping basins on the canals of the Black Country.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "transhipping" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
