Types
Variations on the standard container exist for use with different cargoes including refrigerated container units for perishable goods, tanks in a frame for bulk liquids, open top units for top loading and collapsible versions. Containerised coal carriers, and 'bin-liners' (containers designed for the efficient road/rail transportation of rubbish from cities to recycling and dump sites) are used in Europe.
Container types:
- Collapsible ISO
- Flushfolding flat-rack containers for heavy and bulky semi-finished goods, out of gauge cargo
- Gas bottle
- Generator
- General purpose dry van for boxes, cartons, cases, sacks, bales, pallets, drums in standard, high or half height
- High cube palletwide containers for europallet compatibility
- Insulated shipping container
- Refrigerated containers for perishable goods
- Open top bulktainers for bulk minerals, heavy machinery
- Open side for loading oversize pallet
- Platform or bolster for barrels and drums, crates, cable drums, out of gauge cargo, machinery, and processed timber
- Rolling floor for difficult to handle cargo
- Swapbody
- Tank container for bulk liquids and dangerous goods
- Ventilated containers for organic products requiring ventilation
- Garmentainers for shipping garments on hangers (GOH)
Read more about this topic: Intermodal Container
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