Transshipment, trans-shipment or transhipment is the shipment of goods or containers to an intermediate destination, then to another destination.
Typical small transshipment station platform and warehouse - rail to road transport (abandoned) (2016)
Mechanisation associated with standardised containers revolutionised rail, road and sea freight handling.
Freight transport, also referred as freight forwarding, is the physical process of transporting commodities and merchandise goods and cargo. The term shipping originally referred to transport by sea but in American English, it has been extended to refer to transport by land or air as well. "Logistics", a term borrowed from the military environment, is also used in the same sense.
Harbour cranes unload cargo from a container ship at the Jawaharlal Nehru Port, Navi Mumbai, India.