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2. List of ports in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Top 25 water ports by tonnage. This is a list of ports of the United States, ranked by tonnage. Ports in the United States handle a wide variety of goods that are critical to the global economy, including petroleum, grain, steel, automobiles, and containerized goods.

3. Rail freight transport - Wikipedia

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   A Class 92 hauled container freight train on the West Coast Main Line, United Kingdom A long grain train of the Union Pacific Railroad crossing a bridge in Washington state, United States Freight trains wait for departure in Zhengzhou, China. Rail freight transport is the use of railways and trains to transport cargo as opposed to human passengers.

4. Intermodal container - Wikipedia

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   Intermodal container. A 40-foot-long (12.2 m) shipping container. Each of its eight corners has an essential corner casting for hoisting, stacking, and securing. Containers stacked on a large ship. An intermodal container, often called a shipping container, or a freight container, (or simply “container”) is a large standardized container ...

5. 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 ...

6. United States container ports - Wikipedia

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   50 feet (15 m) 228 feet (69 m) Port of Boston. 47 feet (14 m) Unlimited. Port of Portland (Maine) 32 feet (9.8 m) [2] Dredging of east coast ports are under way [3] because of the New Panama Canal expansion and the expectation of larger container ships . The Jasper Ocean Terminal is a planned container terminal to be built on the Savannah River ...

7. Port of Kansas City - Wikipedia

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   Port of Kansas City. Coordinates: 39.1125°N 94.6105°W. The Port of Kansas City. The Port of Kansas City is an inland port on the Missouri River in Kansas City, Missouri at river mile 367.1, near the confluence with the Kansas River. Kansas City, the second-largest rail hub and third-largest trucking hub in the country, is on marine highway M ...