Backloading
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Backloading is a noun meaning (transport) The transportation of cargo or shipment on a return trip, using the space already paid for and used for the outward leg.
Meaning
(transport) The transportation of cargo or shipment on a return trip, using the space already paid for and used for the outward leg.
More Meanings
- present participle and gerund of backload
Example Sentences
One State fauna authority believes that Australian fauna is smuggled out and backloadings of drugs are made.
A structural weakness in Cairns tourism is the lack of an outbound market. Asiana, owned by the South Korean tyre manufacturer Kumho, established its office in Cairns two years ago but failed to attract passenger backloadings.
Word Forms
- backloadings
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include backfilling, transshipping, backtransfer, transhipping, backsourcing, transloading.
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