What's the difference between shipment and transshipment?

Shipment


Definition:

  • (n.) The act or process of shipping; as, he was engaged in the shipment of coal for London; an active shipment of wheat from the West.
  • (n.) That which is shipped.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Freezing may be valuable while quality control procedures are performed following radiolabeling as well as if temporary storage or shipment of radioantibodies prior to patient dosing is undertaken.
  • (2) Russia has stepped up its battle against parmesan cheese, Danish bacon and other European delicacies, announcing it plans to incinerate contraband shipments on the border as soon as they are discovered.
  • (3) The results suggest that shipment and long-term storage of freeze-dried foot-and-mouth disease virus antigens is possible for use in the ELISA in the absence of refrigeration.
  • (4) He sold the first Tesco product – Tesco Tea – five years later when he bought a tea shipment from a merchant called TE Stockwell and combined their initials on the packaging.
  • (5) It also emerged that Cameron confronted Putin over arms supplies and had been personally involved in plans to prevent a Russian-manned shipment of three repaired attack helicopters and air defence systems reaching Syria.
  • (6) The first trial heard that Fleckney, a drug dealer known as "the chairman of the board", passed Clark information about drug shipments.
  • (7) The importation of a shipment of high-Se wheat from Australia in 1984 raised Se concentrations in breads and other wheat products two to four fold.
  • (8) The number of shipments in which Newcastle disease was found to be present in the birds is reviewed.
  • (9) Also in August, terrorist attacks were intensified, including speedboat strafing attacks on a Cuban seaside hotel "where Soviet military technicians were known to congregate, killing a score of Russians and Cubans"; attacks on British and Cuban cargo ships; contaminating sugar shipments; and other atrocities and sabotage, mostly carried out by Cuban exile organizations permitted to operate freely in Florida.
  • (10) Heins was speaking less than a week after RIM unveiled quarterly results with an operating loss of $643m (£409m) and handset shipments which dipped to their lowest level since spring 2009, amid a smartphone market growing at 50% annually.
  • (11) Michelle Wiese Bockman, markets editor of Lloyd's List, the shipping news and data provider, said the shipment provided "a signal that Libya is open to international trade and shipping.
  • (12) Aid shipments into the devastated city of Aleppo have yet to be allowed to reach civilians.
  • (13) Government restrictions, instituted in 2006, forbid the export of raw teff grain, only allowing shipments of injera and other processed products.
  • (14) The Sharq al-Awsat newspaper quoted a US official as saying Sudan had been warned in advance about the shipment.
  • (15) Similarly, 15 MAI strains were isolated from the lymph node pools of 12 deer from the 2 imported shipments.
  • (16) The former saw iPhone shipments rise from 26.9m in Q3 2012 to 33.8m in Q3 2013, but its market share dropped from 15.6% to 13.4% in that time.
  • (17) Analysts call shipments to intermediaries "sell-in"; the total number that actually reaches customers is "sell-through".
  • (18) PC calves had significantly less shrink after shipment and in 1971 significantly more rapid daily gain during the first weeks of the feeding period.
  • (19) While phablet shipments are still a small proportion of overall global smartphone shipments, they are seeing a marked increase in sales according to IDC's data.
  • (20) Areas with relatively poor adherence rates included pharmacy department preparation of investigational drug patient-information sheets (20.5%), maintaining information within the pharmacy on minimum stock levels (53.9%), mode of shipment (30.8%), time to receive investigational drugs after order placed (38.5%), acceptance of nursing transcriptions of oral orders (56.8%), including "investigational drug" on the dispensing label (55.8%), and approval of data sheets by the investigator and the institutional review board (40.5% and 37.8%, respectively).

Transshipment


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of transshipping, or transferring, as goods, from one ship or conveyance to another.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) More than 80% of the cocaine entering the United States is now thought to be transshipped through Honduras.
  • (2) In central blood banks, these models can minimize shipment quantities, determine optimal transshipments and the most efficient routing.
  • (3) This result was confirmed by studies on the uptake of gamma-aminobutyrate (GABA) into an osmotically sensitive compartment in synaptosomes prepared from frozen human autopsy material transshipped from the brain tissue collection ("brain bank") at Harvard Medical School, MA, USA, to Sydney, Australia.
  • (4) AQIM had abolished taxes in the north and were using extortion, ransom payments and funds from drug transshipping to establish their rule, he said.

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