Intermodal container

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(PD) Photo: US Department of Transport Transport truck and intermodal shipping container.
(PD) Photo: US Department of Transport
Transport truck and intermodal shipping container.

Intermodal containers are are standard sized industrial cargo containers that are designed to be transhipped from one mode of transport to another.[1]

Specialized container ships can carry cargo entirely composed of thousands of containers.[1] They must be unloaded in special container ports, where the cargo is cargo is then loaded onto railway flatcars, large transport trucks, or canal barges.

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Intermodal Containers, United States Department of Transport. Retrieved on 2008-11-04.
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