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Both maritime and inland container ports usually provide storage facilities for both loaded and empty containers. Loaded containers are stored for relatively short periods, whilst waiting for onward transportation, whilst unloaded containers may be stored for longer periods awaiting their next use.
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was rigged for an experiment to use standardized cargo containers that were stacked and then unloaded to a compatible truck chassis at Port Newark. The concept had been developed by the McLean Trucking Company. On August 15, 1962, the
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container ship to be distributed over 19 container trains (74 TEU each), 32 barges (97 TEU each) and 1,560 trucks (1.6 TEU each, on average). The further container terminal, in April 2015, such
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It is common for cargo that arrives to a container port in a single ship to be distributed over several modes of transportation for delivery to inland customers. According to a manager from the
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Dirk Steenken; Stefan Voß; Robert Stahlbock (1 January 2004). "Container terminal operation and operations research - a classification and literature review".
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Robert Stahlbock; Stefan Voß (1 January 2007). "Operations research at container terminals: a literature update".
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In recent years methodological advances regarding container port operations have considerably improved, such as
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Containers are normally stacked for storage, and the resulting stores are known as container stacks.
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In November 1932, the first inland container port in the world was opened by the
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is considered the world's first maritime container port. On April 26, 1956, the
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Port of Rotterdam senior business manager Arwin Stehouwer, quoted in
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opened the world’s first container port, Elizabeth Marine Terminal.
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Maritime container ports tend to be part of a larger
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Keppel Container Terminal
Singapore

Shanghai Port
the world's busiest maritime container port
cargo containers
transshipped
different transport vehicles, for onward transportation
container ships
trains
trucks
Pennsylvania Railroad
Enola, Pennsylvania
Port Newark-Elizabeth
Newark Bay
Port of New York and New Jersey
Ideal X
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
port
harbours
Port of Rotterdam
TEU
APM Terminal
remotely-controlled
gantry cranes
sustainability
renewable energy
carbon dioxide emission
container port design process

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