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French term or phrase:	centre de transbordement
English translation:	boarding station
Entered by:	Howard Cooper

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13:29 Nov 7, 2009

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French term or phrase: centre de transbordement

Identification d’un *centre de transbordement* pour les calèches du Vieux-Montréal.

Author is an urban planner. As I understand it, the term can mean transshipment, which makes little sense to me as regards horse and carriages in Old Montreal...

Howard Cooper KudoZ activity Questions: 23 (none open) (1 without valid answers) (1 closed without grading) Answers: 48 Canada
Local time: 07:01

boarding station

Explanation:
seems logical

Selected response from:

konungursvia
Canada
Local time: 07:01

Grading comment

Certainly works for horse and carriages. Thanks!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

4 +3

boarding station

konungursvia

2 +2

transfer centre

Victoria Barkoff

3 +1

cross-docking facility

kashew

Transfer facilities

desertfox

hub

Bourth

Answers

25 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

transfer centre

Explanation:
According to the dictionaries, "transbordement" can refer to the transfer of passengers from one vehicle to another. But I can't imagine why passengers would be transferred between caleches. Maybe there is some other type of transfer going on...Or maybe they just mean a place where passengers get on and off the caleches.

Victoria Barkoff
Canada
Local time: 07:01
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English

Notes to answerer

Asker: Nice translation. For now it's between this and "transfer facilities." Thanks!

27 mins confidence:

Transfer facilities

Explanation:
Maybe.
Normally transbordement is indeed transshipment.

Example sentence(s):

desertfox
Israel
Local time: 14:01
Works in field
Native speaker of:

French,

Hebrew

Notes to answerer

Asker: The generic tone fits my document. Thanks.

47 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

cross-docking facility

Explanation:
*not sure this recognised translation is appropriate here.

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Note added at 51 mins (2009-11-07 14:21:14 GMT)
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A definition: Transbordement (cross docking) - Action de faire passer des marchandises des quais d'arrivée aux quais de départs, sans passer par le stock.

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Note added at 51 mins (2009-11-07 14:21:51 GMT)
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facility or centre (or hub?)

kashew
France
Local time: 13:01
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 28

Notes to answerer

Asker: Yes, I'm suffering. Thanks for your translation, and yes, I agree, it's probably not appropriate here :)

1 hr confidence:

hub

Explanation:
Avoid transbordement altogether? Assuming what is meant is the place where carriages pick up and set down tourists, a place that is known, easy to access by other means of transport (even if it not a "hub" for said means).

Appears there has been some debate over calèche routes, with, for some, an effect on the start/finish point.

http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=57f...

Note too that in Canada centre de transbordement is said for what we would call over a here a centre de tri. We see it as the place where you dispose of your waste by sorting it into the different containers provided. For Canadians the notion of transfer from one means of transport (car boots) to another (trucks) via the bins predominates. Since a waste sorting facility is a place that gathers, collects waste, maybe the centre de transbordement for calèches is not concerned with cross-docking, only with "collection" (of passengers).

Bourth
France
Local time: 13:01
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 436