Transshipment
Transshipment (also known as transhipment) refers to the handling of maritime goods from large deepsea ships to smaller shortsea ships .
The goods thus arrive and leave the transshipment port (hub) by sea. With the increase in container shipping, in particular, transshipment gained great importance.
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Transshipment in North Sea ports
In the North Sea region, for example, the port of Hamburg is an important hub. In 2005, 35% of the handling volume was transshipment. The containers reach Hamburg over long distances from Asia and America and are then transported on to the Baltic Sea region on smaller ships and vice versa. The port of Rotterdam also has a significant share of transshipment, with the containers going into the hinterland on inland vessels on the Rhine.
Deep sea transshipment
A special form is the "deep sea transshipment" (or "interline transshipment"). Here, containers are transshipped between deepsea liner services . For this purpose, ports in the main shipping areas are used, which have hardly any hinterland worth mentioning. By linking different deepsea lines, mostly from the same shipping company or alliance , the transport time can be shortened.
Transshipment on the open ocean
Transshipment at sea will eg. In the legal fisheries and illegal fishing instead.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stefan Schultz, DER SPIEGEL: Illegal fishing: data analysis shows controversial reloading maneuvers on the high seas - DER SPIEGEL - Economy. Retrieved February 29, 2020 .