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2. Double-stack rail transport - Wikipedia

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   Double-stack rail transport. A container train passing through Jacksonville, Florida, with 53 ft (16.15 m) containers used for shipments within North America. Double-stack rail transport is a form of intermodal freight transport in which railroad cars carry two layers of intermodal containers. Invented in the United States in 1984, it is now ...

3. Hesco bastion - Wikipedia

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   The Concertainer, [1] known colloquially as the Hesco barrier, [2] or Hesco bastion, [3] HESCO being the brand name of the manufacturer, is a modern gabion primarily used for flood control and military fortifications. [4] It is made of a collapsible wire mesh container and heavy duty fabric liner, and used as a temporary to semi-permanent levee ...

4. Packing problems - Wikipedia

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   Packing problems are a class of optimization problems in mathematics that involve attempting to pack objects together into containers. The goal is to either pack a single container as densely as possible or pack all objects using as few containers as possible. Many of these problems can be related to real-life packaging, storage and ...

5. Intermediate bulk container - Wikipedia

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   Intermediate bulk containers (also known as IBC tank, IBC tote, IBC, or pallet tank) are industrial-grade containers engineered for the mass handling, transport, and storage of liquids, semi-solids, pastes, or solids. [1] The two main categories of IBC tanks are flexible IBCs and rigid IBCs. [2] Many IBCs are reused or repurposed .

6. Twenty-foot equivalent unit - Wikipedia

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   Twenty-foot equivalent unit. A 20-foot-long (6.1 m) ISO container equals 1 TEU. Two forty-foot containers stacked on top of two twenty-foot containers. These four containers represent 6 TEU. 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]

7. Pithos - Wikipedia

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   Pithos ( / ˈpɪθɒs /, [1] Greek: πίθος, plural: pithoi πίθοι) is the Greek name [2] [3] of a large storage container. The term in English is applied to such containers used among the civilizations that bordered the Mediterranean Sea in the Neolithic, the Bronze Age and the succeeding Iron Age. Pithoi were used for bulk storage ...