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2. Swap body - Wikipedia

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   A swap body, exchangeable container or interchangeable unit, [1] is one of the types of standard freight containers for road and rail transport.. Based on and very similar to the more widespread shipping containers (ISO containers), swap bodies normally have the same external dimensions for the bottom corner fittings as ISO shipping containers so that they can be placed on the same kinds of ...

3. Conex box - Wikipedia

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   It was 8 ft 6 in (2.59 m) long, 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) wide, and 6 ft 10 in (2.08 m) high, with double doors on one end, was mounted on skids, and had lifting rings on the top four corners. [3] After proving successful in Korea, the Transporter was developed into the Container Express (CONEX) box system in late 1952.

4. ISO 668 - Wikipedia

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   Not shown is the rare, but also possible combination of a 30-foot container coupled to a 10-foot box, in a 40(+) foot long stack. The ISO 668 standard firstly classifies containers by their length in whole feet for their 'common names', despite all measurement units used being either metric (SI) or officially based on the metric system .

5. Intermodal container - Wikipedia

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   By the ISO standard, 10-foot (and previously included 5-ft and 6 1 ⁄ 2-ft boxes) are only of unnamed, 8-foot (2.44 m) height. But industry makes 10-foot units more frequently of 8 ft 6 in (2.59 m) height, [ 90 ] to mix, match (and stack) better in a fleet of longer, 8 ft 6 in tall containers.

6. Double-stack rail transport - Wikipedia

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   A 20-foot (6.1 m) container is limited to 24 tonnes (26.5 short tons; 23.6 long tons) and two such can fit into a car for a 40-foot (12.2 m) container, or even three if double-stacking [citation needed], but not four unless very high axle load is permitted. The North American railways permit two 53-foot (16.15 m) containers as shown in the ...

7. Twenty-foot equivalent unit - Wikipedia

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   The twenty-foot equivalent unit (abbreviated TEU or teu) is a general unit of cargo capacity, often used for container ships and container ports. [1] It is based on the volume of a 20-foot-long (6.1 m) intermodal container, a standard-sized metal box that can be easily transferred between different modes of transportation, such as ships, trains, and trucks.

8. ISO 6346 - Wikipedia

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   ISO 6346 is an international standard covering the coding, identification and marking of intermodal (shipping) containers used within containerized intermodal freight transport by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). [1]

9. Container chassis - Wikipedia

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   The length of a chassis corresponds to which container size will fit (i.e., a 40-foot-long chassis fits a 40-foot-long container), but some models are adjustable length. [3] A port crane lifts a container from a ship to a chassis for road transport. Twistlocks. Semi-tractor trucks hook up to chassis via the kingpin. When disconnected from a ...