Dry port

[2] A dry inland port can speed up the flow of cargo between ships and major land transportation networks, creating a more central distribution point.

Examples are the functions of receiving, processing through customs, inspecting, sorting, and consolidating containers going to the same overseas port.

The containers are still collected from their origins or distributed to their ultimate destinations by road with the transfer happening at the inland site.

[3] The term inland port may also be used for a similar model of a site linked to an airport or land border crossing rather than a seaport.

The definition of inland port in the jargon of the transportation and logistics industries is: An inland port is a physical site located away from traditional land, air and coastal borders with the vision to facilitate and process international trade through strategic investment in multi-modal transportation assets and by promoting value-added services as goods move through the supply chain.