break bulk
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Until the late 1990s, fresh produce was shipped on break bulk ships—general cargo vessels with big refrigerated spaces—from the production site to a single destination.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2018
They would not break bulk till they got to their journey's end.
From Greenmantle by John Buchan
I am sure it is rara avis, for if you once "break bulk," as they phrase it, you are in again for all.
From The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims Volume I (of II) by Andrew Steinmetz
The delay and expense to which merchants are subjected, when obliged to "break bulk" repeatedly between the port whence they sail and that of their destination, is extreme.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various
No vessel was allowed to make entry or break bulk until letters brought by it had been handed over to the Post Office.
From The Development of Rates of Postage An Historical and Analytical Study by A. D. Smith
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