"Transhipment" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... these steamers could not have supported themselves in 1854-55 without the aid which they obtained from the Government for the services which they performed. They never have transported much freight, as it would not bear the transhipment at Panama. The small quantity which they had was during the first years after the discovery of gold, and then only. They have never at any time brought any eastward. The Panama Railroad was a splendid consummation of which the world had dreamed for years, and toward ...
— Ocean Steam Navigation and the Ocean Post • Thomas Rainey
... merely speak of a simple revision; it would be a cure worse than the evil. During the tempest one cannot abandon the storm-beaten ship and cross over to a safer vessel. It is necessary to return into harbour and make the transhipment where calm, or relative calm at ...
— Peaceless Europe • Francesco Saverio Nitti |
