Intermodal transportation

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  1. 3. intermodal horizontal equipment
  2. 5. country where unique form of an intermodal unit has been developed in the rail industry
  3. 7. vertical intermodal terminal equipment in port
  4. 8. river barges are placed directly on board sea- going ships
  5. 11. The transportation of goods by several modes of transport where one carrier organises the whole transport from one point or port of origin via one or more interface points to a final port or point. Depending on how responsibility for the entire transport is shared, different types of documents are used.
  6. 12. cargo ships designed to carry wheeled cargo, such as cars, trucks, semi-trailer trucks, buses, trailers, and railroad cars, that are driven on and off the ship on their own wheels or using a platform vehicle, such as a self-propelled modular transporter.
  7. 13. a rail freight service where a laden or empty container is loaded on a train's flatcar. The containers are single-stacked and are transported between different transport hubs via national rail networks.
  8. 14. transportation when truck trailers are placed on rail cars
  9. 15. containers which one foot higher (9’6′′) than the standard.
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  1. 1. A large standard size metal box into which cargo is packed for shipment aboard specially configured transport modes (ISO 668).
  2. 2. transport chain in intermodal transportation
  3. 4. 2,44 metres container measure]
  4. 6. unit was first used by Richard F. Gibney in 1969
  5. 9. the latest technology in intermodal transportation
  6. 10. Not a system that requires the trailer to be lifted onto to rail flatcar. Here the rail bogies may be part of the trailer unit or be attached in the railway yard. The road unit becomes a rail car, and vice-versa.