Container ship
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A container ship is a cargo ship that carries all of its load in truck-size intermodal containers, in a technique called containerization. Container ships are a common means of commercial intermodal f
Two Maersk Line container ships
Container ships avoid the complex stevedoring of break-bulk shipping
The earliest container ships were converted T2-class tankers in the 1940s after World War II
Container ship Tan Cang 15 on the Saigon River in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Intermodal freight transport
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Intermodal freight transport involves the transportation of freight in an intermodal container or vehicle, using multiple modes of transportation, without any handling of the freight itself when chang
Containers being transferred to a cargo ship at the container terminal in Bremerhaven, Bremen, Germany
Intermodal ship-to-rail transfer of containerized cargos at terminals in Portsmouth, Virginia, United States
A stagecoach transferred to a railroad car with a gantry crane, an example of early intermodal freight transport by the French Mail in 1844; the drawing is exhibited in Deutsches Museum Verkehrszentrum in Munich.
Transferring freight containers on the London, Midland and Scottish Railway in 1928