Transload

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To transfer goods from one mode of transportation to another without storage
2. to shift cargo from one vehicle to another at a transshipment point
3. to convert cargo between different transport vehicles while minimizing handling and warehousing time

Etymology: "Transload" is a plain compound: the prefix "trans-", from Latin meaning "across" or "over," attached to "load." Its sense is literal and practical. Goods are lifted off one vehicle, such as a ship, and set onto another, such as a truck or railcar, while passing across the transfer point rather than being warehoused in between. The word is a technical coinage of modern shipping and logistics, built from ordinary English parts rather than inherited from an older vocabulary. Its "trans-" element is the same one found in "transport" and "transfer," so the word reads as a direct description of what happens: a load crosses from one carrier to another.

Synonyms: transfer, relocate, transship