The waterborne transport of cargo packed into standardized intermodal shipping containers, carried aboard purpose-built container ships and transferred between ship, rail and road using the same container without unpacking the goods inside. Container shipping is the dominant mode for moving manufactured goods across oceans, since the standardized container lets cargo move seamlessly between ports and inland transport with far less handling than older break-bulk methods required.
Facts
Core ConcernOcean carriage of cargo packed into standardized intermodal shipping containers. 1 Connections
Exemplified By
The container ship is the defining vessel type of container shipping, narrower than its existing exemplifies edge to the broader Maritime Transport mode
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Container ship
WikipediaIntroduction
A container ship (also called boxship or spelled containership) is a cargo ship that carries all of its load in truck-size intermodal containers, in a technique called containerization.
History
On April 26, 1956, the first of these rebuilt container vessels, Ideal X, left the Port Newark in New Jersey and a new revolution in modern shipping resulted.
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