backloading

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

Noun

  1. The transportation of cargo or shipment on a return trip, using the space already paid for and used for the outward leg.
    • One State fauna authority believes that Australian fauna is smuggled out and backloadings of drugs are made. - 1978, Australian Government Publication Service, Parliamentary Papers, page 32:
    • 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...

Origin

From back + loading or backload + -ing.

Forms

backloadings

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of backload

Origin

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.