backloading

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Noun

backloading noun

The transportation of cargo or shipment on a return trip, using the space already paid for and used for the outward leg.

Verb

backloading verb

To load toward the back, or towards the end of a period.
To load (cargo, shipment, etc.) after unloading has been completed.
To transport further toward the rear of the theater of war.
To fill a syringe with solution from the plunger end of the barrel.

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reverse logistics backfilling transshipping backtransfer transhipping backsourcing transloading retransit reshipping retrotransport put-back reshoring reshipment reconsignment reimportation trans-shipping

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