Break bulk cargo, a shipping term for any loose material that must be loaded individually, and not in Intermodal containers nor in bulk as with oil or grain.
The wagons were removed from service (as were the containers themselves) when more modern containers came into use.
Feeders collect shipping containers from different ports and transport them to central container terminals where they are loaded to bigger vessels.
They discover that the terrorists have an enormous base underground, the entrance to which is hidden within a metal freight container.
The open hatch bulk carriers can also be used to carry containers on the outward leg, and dry bulk on the return leg.
Cargo ships that have fittings to carry standard shipping containers and retractable tweendecks (that can be moved out of the way) so that the ship can carry bulk cargo are known as multipurpose vessels.
In 1995 Jones began a study of the use of ISO standard shipping containers in design, with his project for air-delivered mountain cabins for the high Sierras.
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It also makes it possible for the aircraft, once disassembled, to fit inside a 6 m ISO shipping container.
Hu Haifeng was the president of Nuctech, a Tsinghua University-owned company created in the late 1990s to make large scanners for shipping, trucking containers and railway cars, as well as luggage scanners and metal detectors for airports.
Intermodal freight trains, such as Pacer Stacktrains, use container well cars in groups of three to five cars, connected as a unit with standard North American trucks between the individual well cars.
There is also a large Shell Oil refinery in nearby Wilmington and the massive Intermodal Container Transfer Facility (ICTF) on the neighborhood's western edge.