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

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

Various shipments consigned to Baltic ports are landed at this city; here the cargoes break bulk and are again trans-shipped to their destination.

From Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges by Redway, Jacques W. (Jacques Wardlaw)

And the master of the ship in which such person shall embark shall give bond for the faithful execution of his part of the trust at the island where he shall break bulk.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 06 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund

Railroads do not break bulk between North and South.

From The South and the National Government by Taft, William H.