Intermodal container
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An intermodal container, often called a shipping container, freight container, or simply "container", is a large standardized steel container designed and built for intermodal freight transport, meani
A 40-foot-long (12.2 m) shipping container. Each of its eight corners has an essential corner casting for hoisting, stacking, and securing
Containers stacked on a large ship.
Transferring freight containers on the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS; 1928)
Freight car in railway museum Bochum-Dahlhausen, showing four different UIC-590 pa-containers
Conex box
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The CONEX box, a portmanteau of "Container, express", is a type of cargo container that was developed during the Korean War and was used to transport and store supplies during the Korean and Vietnam w
Intermodal container
…The term CONEX (Box) is a technically incorrect carry-over usage of the name of an important predecessor of the ISO containers: the much smaller steel CONEX boxes used by the U.S. Army. Intermodal containers exist in many types and standardized sizes, but 90 percent of the global container fleet are "dry freight…
A mix of modern standard containers and old Conex boxes used for training purposes, Fort Carson, 2013
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