1. to transfer goods or passengers from one ship or form of transport to another
Usage: nautical; shipping

Examples

• The cargo will be transhipped at the port in Singapore.
• Due to mechanical problems, passengers had to tranship to another vessel.
• The company decided to tranship the goods through Rotterdam.
• We need to tranship these containers to a smaller boat.
• The freight was transhipped from rail to truck at the terminal.
• They will tranship the oil from tankers to storage facilities.