Logistics Unit 4

The driver does not stay with his road vehicle during transport by rail or ferry.

• unaccompanied

• block train

• piggyback

• single-wagon

Goods are transported in the same loading unit or vehicle using different modes of transport.

• block train

• intermodal

• piggyback

• single-wagon

A single shipper uses a whole train which is run directly from the loading point to the destination.

• intermodal

• piggyback

• block train

• single-wagon

Train is formed out of individual wagons or sets of wagons which have different origins and different destinations.

• intermodal

• multiload

• piggyback

• single-wagon

a large gantry crane used to load and unload containers onto trucks or railway wagons or to store the containers on top of each other in stacks in a container yard

• grappler lift

• container

• transtainer

• barge

a vehicle used for handling intermodal cargo containers in small terminals or medium-sized ports

• river barge

• swap-body

• reach stacker

• crane

a crane built atop a gantry, which is a structure used to straddle an object or workspace

• grappler lift

• gantry crane

• reach stacker

• transtainer

Grasping device having hinged tines or jaws that close around an object or load, used especially in lifting or dragging heavy items

• grappler lift

• river barge

• vehicle

• intermodal

a trailer or semi-trailer that can be hauled on roads by a tractor unit and then by way of a fifth wheel coupling, operate in a unit train on railway lines

• intermodal

• block train

• road-railer

• swap body

a cargo ship that carries all of its load in truck-size intermodal containers, in a technique called containerization

• single-wagon

• block train

• LGV

• container ship