Transshipment

Transshipment (including transhipment ) denotes the envelope of maritime goods of large deep-sea vessels to smaller short-sea ships. Reaching the goods and thus leave the transshipment port (stroke) by sea. In particular, with the increase of container ship traffic gained a great importance the transshipment.

Transshipment in North Sea ports

In the North Sea, for example, the Hamburg harbor a major hub. In 2005, 35% of the cargo volume transshipment. The container reach Hamburg on long distances from Asia and America, and are then transported further on smaller ships in the Baltic Sea Region and vice versa. Also, the port of Rotterdam has a significant transshipment share, here go the containers on barges on the Rhine in the hinterland.

Deep-sea transshipment

A special form is the " deep-sea transshipment " (or " interline Transshipment "). These containers between deep-sea liner services are handled. For this purpose ports are used in the main navigation areas that have hardly any appreciable hinterland itself. By linking various deep-sea lines usually of the same company or alliance, the transport time can be shortened.

• Port industry