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transship

[trans-ship] / trænsˈʃɪp /


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The defendants engaged in a "deliberate and deceptive effort to transship controlled Nvidia GPUs to China by falsifying paperwork, creating fake contracts, and misleading US authorities," Assistant Attorney General John Eisenberg said in a statement.

From Barron's Nov. 20, 2025

The Persian Gulf remains a major waterway for trade, ranging from cargo ships that transship onto the rest of the world and energy shipments from the oil-rich Gulf Arab states.

From Seattle Times Mar. 17, 2022

Send North Korean goods to China and transship them to South Korea.

From New York Times Mar. 16, 2018

While Washington planned to police U.S. shippers to see that they did not transship to Cuba via neutral nations, it had no plans to pressure neutral governments to prohibit such transshipments.

From Time Magazine Archive

Pietro's injunction caught me before I could transship, but with another chance, I might have gotten the stuff to Mars in time....

From Let'Em Breathe Space by Del Rey, Lester

Spain is part of the European Union common market, so Spanish products could be transshipped through other EU countries and easily reach U.S. shores.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 11, 2026

Under the July agreement, goods deemed to be "transshipped" face an additional 40 percent duty.

From Barron's Oct. 27, 2025

"We are seeing the benefit of these cargoes being transshipped into Europe," said Mark Whitworth, chief executive of Peel Ports, which operates Liverpool port.

From Reuters Nov. 4, 2021

At first, the detection of transshipped honey relied on a simple test for an unapproved antibiotic, chloramphenicol, discovered in Chinese honey.

From New York Times Jan. 19, 2015

Only Tool had easy access to work, acting as muscle on valuable goods as they transshipped to the Mississippi and the rail yards.

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi

The tariffs in the order apply to chips imported to the U.S. that aren’t used domestically for artificial intelligence purposes but are then exported to another country, a practice called transshipping.

From Barron's Jan. 14, 2026

The Commerce Department last month said it would investigate China Zhongwang Holdings Ltd. for trying to avoid U.S. import tariffs by transshipping aluminum through third countries.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 7, 2016

Hard-boiled Salesman Rieber tried to compromise, argued that the Spanish, busy rebuilding their country, could not be transshipping any oil to Germany.

From Time Magazine Archive

"We're not using any diplomatic energies of consequence to try to put pressure on the producer and transshipping countries," he complains.

From Time Magazine Archive

All through the day the transshipping went on.

From The Vultures by Merriman, Henry Seton




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