Container (shipping)
From Conservapedia
A container is a truck trailer body that can be detached from the chassis for loading into a vessel, a rail car or stacked in a container depot.
Containers may be ventilated, insulated, refrigerated (these are commonly called reefers), flat rack, vehicle rack, open top, bulk liquid or equipped with interior devices. A container may be 20 feet (this is the standard used to measure container equivalents, commonly referred to as twenty-foot equivalent units or TEUs), 40 feet, 45 feet, 48 feet or 53 feet in length, 8'0" or 8'6" in width, and 8'6" or 9'6" in height.[1]
In some areas of the world, old containers (specifically those no longer suitable for transport) are repurposed to provide housing.
See also
- Infrastructure
- Just in Time distribution systems
- Reefer (container)
- Systems of support
- Straddle carrier
