transshipment

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Singapore’s international airport also logged growth across cargo exports, imports and transshipments, driven by front-loading of activities in the first three quarters of the year.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 24, 2026

Full-year data are pending, but Scissors estimates that roughly 35% of the projected U.S. bilateral goods deficit decrease this year will be offset by such transshipments.

From Barron's • Jan. 14, 2026

Meanwhile, Trump's global tariffs offensive also took aim at "transshipments" - Chinese-made goods that were being re-routed through other countries, such as Vietnam.

From BBC • Oct. 29, 2025

It shows that in the last six years, more than 50 of these ships flagged to a dozen nations, including Argentina, have been implicated in illegal fishing, unauthorized transshipments or forced labor.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 4, 2024

Nearly all the goods which they bought in Europe in exchange for their produce came overseas to Northern ports, whence transshipments were made by rail and water to Southern points of distribution.

From History of the United States by Beard, Charles A. (Charles Austin)