A shipping container is a container with strength suitable to withstand shipment, storage, and handling. Shipping containers range from large reusable...
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Several shipping lines are involved in intermodal freight transport as part of international trade. This is a list of the 30 largest container shipping companies...
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An intermodal container, often called a shipping container, or cargo container, (or simply “container”) is a large metal crate designed and built for...
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Shipping container architecture is a form of architecture that uses steel intermodal containers (shipping containers) as the main structural element. It...
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Containerization (redirect from Container shipping)
intermodal containers (also called shipping containers, or ISO containers). Containerization, also referred as container stuffing or container loading,...
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world's largest container shipping company by both fleet size and cargo capacity, controlling about 19.7 percent of the global container ship fleet. As...
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Shipping's container shipping subsidiary – China Shipping Container Lines – operated 156 container vessels with 656,000 TEU capacity. China Shipping Container...
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foot containers. 40 foot containers are the primary container size, making up about 90% of all container shipping and since container shipping moves...
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A container is any receptacle or enclosure for holding a product used in storage, packaging, and transportation, including shipping. Things kept inside...
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Insulated shipping containers are a type of packaging used to ship temperature sensitive products such as foods, pharmaceuticals, organs, blood, biologic...
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The Serial Shipping Container Code (SSCC) is an 18-digit number used to identify logistics units. In order to automate the reading process, the SSCC is...
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A hybrid shipping container is a shipping system that uses the energy of phase-change material (PCM) in combination with the ability to recharge without...
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A container port or container terminal is a facility where cargo containers are transshipped between different transport vehicles, for onward transportation...
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COSCO SHIPPING Lines Co., Ltd. (Chinese: 中远海运集运) is a Chinese international container transportation and shipping company. It is a subsidiary of COSCO...
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world's busiest container ports (ports with container terminals that specialize in handling goods transported in intermodal shipping containers), by total...
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Conex box (redirect from Conex container)
standard intermodal shipping container, often called an ISO box, after ISO 668/ISO 6346, that is used widely by container shipping companies today. The...
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trade purposes, as with a sealed shipping container, there is no way of establishing when damage occurred after the container has been sealed. The standards...
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known as China Shipping Container Lines (CSCL) and was among the world's largest container liner companies. It exited the container shipping business and...
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The Box (Levinson book) (redirect from The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger)
The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger is a non-fiction book by Marc Levinson charting the historic rise...
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and shipping. Container may also refer to: Container (abstract data type), a class or data structure that is a collection of other objects Container (type...
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Packaging (redirect from Beverage containers)
item identification codes, the SCC-14 (UPC shipping container code), the SSCC-18 (Serial Shipping Container Codes), Interleaved 2-of-5 and UCC/EAN-128...
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A refrigerated container or reefer is an intermodal container (shipping container) used in intermodal freight transport that is capable of refrigeration...
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A drum (also called a barrel) is a cylindrical shipping container used for shipping bulk cargo. Drums can be made of steel, dense paperboard (commonly...
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COSCO (redirect from COSCO Container Lines)
site was developed into a container port terminal, Pacific Container Terminal. In 2002, another subsidiary, COSCO Shipping Co., Ltd., became a listed...
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(December 2016). "An evaluation of current trends in container shipping industry, very large container ships (VLCSs), and port capacities to accommodate...
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the two conglomerates. China Shipping Group was mainly engaged in shipping of oil tankers, passenger ships and container vessels. Other related businesses...
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March 2012. Retrieved 14 August 2011. "Container Shipping Overview", Container Shipping Overview, China Shipping Report, Business Monitor International...
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A flat rack container is a shipping container with two end walls, but without side walls and roof. Some flat racks can also be equipped with pillars....
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Hapag-Lloyd (redirect from Hapag-Lloyd Container Linie GmbH)
Hapag-Lloyd AG is a German international shipping and container transportation company, the 4th biggest in the world. It was formed in 1970 through a merger...
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Hanjin Shipping Co., Ltd. was a South Korean logistics and container transport company. Hanjin Shipping was South Korea's largest container line and one...
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