 Conversely, a load on a truck can be taken in one (legal) shipment to an intermediate point and then to its ultimate destination without ever leaving the truck.If this is specified as two shipments, then the goods are transshipped, but no transloading has taken place.The modern distinction between transloading and transshipment was not well codified in the period of the mid-19th through mid-20th centuries, when discussions of break of gauge often used the word "transshipment" for what today's careful usage would call transloading, or for any combination of transloading and transshipment.