TRANSSHIPMENT CENTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does transshipment center mean? 

• TRANSSHIPMENT CENTER (noun)
  The noun TRANSSHIPMENT CENTER has 1 sense:

1. a port where merchandise can be imported and then exported without paying import duties

  Familiarity information: TRANSSHIPMENT CENTER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRANSSHIPMENT CENTER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A port where merchandise can be imported and then exported without paying import duties

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

entrepot; transshipment center

Context example:

Bahrain has been an entrepot of trade between Arabia and India since the second millennium BC

Hypernyms ("transshipment center" is a kind of...):

port (a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country)