Editing Transshipment (section)

==Transshipment at container ports or terminals==
[[File: Australian National Railways 5-pack freight cars and container loader, Islington freight terminal, 1985.jpg |thumb|250px|Mechanisation associated with standardised [[Intermodal container|containers]] revolutionised rail, road and sea [[freight transport|freight handling.]]]]
[[File:Transhipment container port.png|400px|thumb|Scheme describing the possible container flows at a container port/terminal]]
The transshipment of [[Intermodal container|containers]] at a container port or terminal can be defined as the number (or proportion) of containers, possibly expressed in [[Twenty-foot equivalent unit|TEU]], of the total container flow that is handled at the port or terminal and, after temporary storage in the stack, transferred to another ship to reach their destinations. The exact definition of transshipment may differ between ports, mostly depending on the inclusion of inland water transport (barges operating on canals and rivers to the [[hinterland]]). The definition of transshipment may:
*include only [[Seaborne Freight|seaborne]] transfers (a change to another international deep-sea [[container ship]]); or
*include both seaborne and inland waterway ship transfers (sometimes called ''water-to-water'' transshipment). Most coastal container ports in [[China]] have a large proportion of riverside "transshipment" to the hinterland.
In both cases, a single, unique, transshipped container is counted twice in the port performance, since it is handled twice by the waterside [[container crane]]s (separate unloading from arriving ship A, waiting in the stack, and loading onto departing ship B).