An area designated to be used for the stowage of cargo in containers that may be accessed by truck, rail, or ocean transportation.
Facility designed to handle containers with special-purpose equipment such as container cranes, straddle carriers and container stacking areas.
Place of receipt (acceptance), storage and delivery of both, loaded and / or empty containers to be loaded or discharged into resp. from a transport medium.
An area designated for the stowage of cargo in containers. Usually accessible by truck, railroad and marine transportation, the terminal is where containers are picked up, dropped off, maintained and stored.
a facility where cargo containers are loaded or unloaded from ship s to land vehicles, for further transport
A specialized facility where ocean container vessels dock to discharge and load containers, equipped with cranes with a safe lifting capacity of 35-40 tons, with booms having an outreach of up to 120 feet in order to reach the outside cells of vessels. Most such cranes operate on rail tracks and have articulating rail trucks on each of their four legs, enabling them to traverse along the terminal and work various bays on the vessel and for more than one crane to work a single vessel simultaneously. Most terminals have direct rail access and container storage areas, and are served by highway carriers.
An area designated to be used for the stowage of cargos in containers which may be accessible by truck, railroad and marine transportation.
A facility for large scale container handling, parking and storage; for transport of containers between different transport modes
An area designated for the stowage of cargoes in container; usually accessible by truck, railroad and marine transportation. Here containers are picked up, dropped off, maintained and housed.
Also refered to as a Container Yard (CY). A facility that receives full export containers from one shipper to loading the vessel and delivers full import containers to the consignee after; it is the same location where ocean vessels are loaded & unloaded.
Area where large scale container handling, packing and storage facilities are available and used for transport of containers between at least two different transport media (rail, road, sea, air).
A facility which allows container vessels to berth alongside for the operations of loading and unloading of containers. Shippers deliver their export containers to the Container Terminal awaiting for loading onto container vessels whilst consignees at ports take delivery of containers from the Container Terminal after they are unloaded from the container vessels.
A container terminal is a facility where cargo containers are loaded or unloaded from ships to land vehicles, for further transport. Often these vehicles are trains or trucks. These tend to be individual parts of a larger port, and situated near either a river or a harbour.