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Photo: Dr. Jean-Paul Rodrigue, 2005. In the United States, the domestic 53-foot container is widely used. It represents the largest size a standard truck is authorized to carry on roadways, namely the Interstate. Therefore, it is the largest road transportation unit in most of North America (road trains of two

Source: adapted from T. Toikka (2006) “The Real Price for Container Transportation between Asia and Europe”, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management. Shippers try to use the volume and weight limits of the container in the most optimal way. Depending on the characteristics of the goods

Type Cubic Capacity Tare Weight Payload (Net) Weight Gross Weight Length / Width / Height 20 Footer 33.2 cubic meters (1,170 cubic feet) 2,400 kg (5,290 lb) 28,080 kg (61,910 lb) 30,480 kg (67,200 lb) 6.058 m / 2.438 m / 2.591 m (20’0″ / 8’0″ / 8’6″) 40 Footer

Note: Sequences such as 22G1 refer to ISO container size and type codes. The initial container sizes were the 20-footer (22G1) and the 40-footer (42G1), dimensions that were agreed upon in the 1960s and became an ISO standard. Initially, the 20-footer was the most widely used container. However, as containerization

Source: adapted from Hayuth, Y. (1987) Intermodality: Concept and Practice, Essex: Lloyds of London Press. While containerization is mostly driven by technical and infrastructure issues, intermodalism is mainly an issue driven by managerial and operational considerations. Since the 1980s, containerization, and intermodalism have been converging, implying that containerization was the

Photo: Dr. jean-Paul Rodrigue, 2012. Most container chassis are single-purpose, implying that they are only used to carry containers. There are some cases where a hybrid chassis can be used to carry containers, the most prevalent being the flatbed trailer that can also carry other cargoes. The above photo depicts

Photo: Dr. Jean-Paul Rodrigue, 2003. Terminal de l’Ocean was one container terminal in the Port of Le Havre, France, leased by the maritime shipping company MSC (Mediterranean Shipping Company) and by Terminaux de Normandie. The MSC Diego, built in 1999, is a typical Panamax containership with a capacity of just

A multimodal transport system integrates different geographical scales from the global to the local. With new modal and intermodal infrastructure development, regions have growing accessibility to the global market. The above figure represents a corridor within a multimodal transportation system composed of a set of gateways and hubs (A, B,

Source: Adapted from Coyle, J.J., E.J. Bardi and R.A. Novack (1994) Transportation, Fourth Edition, St. Paul/Minneapolis: West Publishing Company, p. 262. One of the first attempts at piggybacking dates back to 1872, when the Barnum & Bailey Circus used its own special train of flat railroad cars to tour cities

Photo: Dr. Jean-Paul Rodrigue, 2005 Factory output, particularly in the light manufacturing sector, is commonly stacked on pallets that can be handled with minimal capital investment (forklift, loading bays). Pallets are convenient for relatively heavy goods as they are designed to be handled by forklifts. These pallets are then loaded