UNIT05A

A Container Transportation
A container is a large reusable receptacle that can accommodate smaller cartons or cases in a single shipment, designed for efficient ha来自dling of cargo.
Container and Its objects
In order to adapt to the increasing containerization trend, it is essential to plan and construct adequate ports and facilities to cope with this development.
Notes
2. Recognizing the critical importance of developing an inland distribution system for seaborne containers, Chinese Government encouraged and supported the study and development of containers conveying to improve intermodal container links along selected corridors between gateway ports and inland destinations.
当认识到为海轮运输集装箱发展内陆配送系统的关 键性时， 键性时，中国政府鼓励和支持针对于集装箱的研究 和发展，这些能增强在入港口和内陆目的地之间选 和发展， 择通路间的联合运输集装箱的联系。 择通路间的联合运输集装箱的联系。
Topic for discussion
1. From the content, what is the increasing role of containers? 2. What’s your understanding of containers? And how is the carrying capacity? 3. It is universally recognized that among the numerous advantages related to the success of containers in international transport, what aspects are the main predominance of container? 4. Could you imagine the future of the container transportation? Please discuss it with your classmates.
A container is a large standard size metal box conferred flexibility and hardiness which is either made of steel (the most common for maritime containers) or aluminum (particularly for domestic) into which cargo is packed for shipment aboard specially configured oceangoing vessels and designed to be moved with common handling equipment enabling high-speed intermodal transfers in economically large units between ships, railcars, truck chassis, and barges using a minimum of labor.
Advantages of Container Transport
Containers offer a fast, safe and cost effective means of transportation in exporting and importing commodities; they are easily transferred from one mode of transport to another; they enable operators to offer door-to-door, land-sea through services, with predictable delivery times; and they reduce pilferage en route.
Carrying Capacity of Containers (in cubic feet)
The most prevalent container size is however the 40 foot box, which in its 2,400 cubic feet has the capacity to carry the equivalent of 22 tons of cargo. However, as containerization became widely adopted in the 1990s, shippers switched to larger container sizes, notably the “40–foot”.
The Increasing Role of Containers
In recent years, the world economy has become more integrated internationally and container transportation has become increasingly more important as the proportion of all trade using containers is continuously growing. The container movement began with railcars carrying truck trailers on flat cars, called TOFC.
当所运货物须历经长距离且结合多种运输方式时， 当所运货物须历经长距离且结合多种运输方式时， 集装箱货物货物的运输将是其运输中最适宜的方法。 集装箱货物货物的运输将是其运输中最适宜的方法。 集装箱货物可以走海陆运输、铁路运输、卡车运输， 集装箱货物可以走海陆运输、铁路运输、卡车运输， 然而海陆运输比较占优势。 然而海陆运输比较占优势。
It is not surprising that the maritime sector should have been the first mode to pursue containerization. Transportation of containerized cargoes is the most expedient way of transportation when it is necessary to deliver cargoes over long distances combining various modes of transportation.
Container Transportation
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The Increasing Role of Containers
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Container and Its objects
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Advantages of Container Transport
The Increasing Role of Containers
2000 till now Above 8000 TEU
Advantages of Container Transport
Containers have shown a high capability to use standard transport modes, notably maritime. Your goods will be once loaded into containers at supplier and will be unloaded already at your destination warehouse. of course, containerized cargo transportation is remarkable for its high level of safety and security.
What Is a Container
A Container is an object that stores other objects (its elements), and that has methods for accessing its elements. One popular method of shipment is to use containers obtained from carriers. These containers vary in size, material, and construction and accommodate most cargo, but they are best suited for standard package sizes and shapes.
UNIT 5 Passage A —— ——Container Transportation Passage B —— ——Optimising Container Transfers at Multimodal Terminals
UNIT 5
Container Transportation
Passage A
The Increasing Role of Containers
Gradually, railroads realized that containers on flat cars (COFC) did not have the aerodynamic drag disadvantages but that they required the added capital equipment of a full truck chassis at the Terminal to go the remainder of the trip by truck. Containers going into a marine terminal by rail did not require the added chassis.
Generation of Container Ship
Container ship generation First generation Second generation Third generation Fourth generation Fifth generation Sixth generation year 1956-1970 1970-1980 1980-1986 1986-1993 1993-2000 Loadage 700-1000 TEU 1800-2000 TEU 2500-3000 TEU 3000-4500 TEU 4500-6000 TEU
Notes
1. Transportation of containerized cargoes is the most expedient way of transportation when it is necessary to deliver cargoes over long distances combining various modes of transportation. Containerized cargo transportation is carried out by sea, by railway and by truck, however, sea transportation much predominates.
Container and Its objects
What Is a Container
Container and Its objects
Carrying Capacity of Containers (in cubic feet)
Generation of Container Ship
What Is a Container