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A 40'-long shipping container. Each of its eight corners has an essential corner casting for hoisting, stacking, and securing.
Intermodal containers are standard-sized, metal cargo containers that are designed to be moved unloaded from one mode of transport to another, i.e. to/from ships or trains or trucks.[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.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Intermodal Containers, United States Department of Transport. Retrieved on 2008-11-04.