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  2. Double-stack rail transport - Wikipedia

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    A 20-foot (6.1 m) container is limited to 24 tonnes (26.5 short tons; 23.6 long tons) and two such can fit into a car for a 40-foot (12.2 m) container, or even three if double-stacking [citation needed], but not four unless very high axle load is permitted. The North American railways permit two 53-foot (16.15 m) containers as shown in the ...

  3. Container ship - Wikipedia

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    The combined deadweight tonnage of container ships and general cargo ships, which also often carry containers, represents 21.8% of the world's fleet. [58] As of 2009 [update] , the average age of container ships worldwide was 10.6 years, making them the youngest general vessel type, followed by bulk carriers at 16.6 years, oil tankers at 17 ...

  4. Rail freight transport - Wikipedia

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    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 . A freight train, cargo train, or goods train is a group of freight cars (US) or ...

  5. Mediterranean Shipping Company - Wikipedia

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    Mediterranean Shipping Company S.A, branded as MSC, is an international shipping line founded by Gianluigi Aponte in Italy in 1970. The company is owned by the Aponte family with its headquarters in Switzerland since 1978. [5] It is the world's largest container shipping company by both fleet size and cargo capacity, [6] controlling about 19.7 ...

  6. Flexible intermediate bulk container - Wikipedia

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    A flexible intermediate bulk container ( FIBC ), jumbo, bulk bag, super sack, big bag, or tonne bag is an industrial container made of flexible fabric that is designed for storing and transporting dry, flowable products, such as sand, fertilizer, and granules of plastic. [1] [2] [3]

  7. Fluid ounce - Wikipedia

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    The US fluid ounce is based on the US gallon, which in turn is based on the wine gallon of 231 cubic inches that was used in the United Kingdom prior to 1824. With the adoption of the international inch, the US fluid ounce became 1⁄128 gal × 231 in 3 /gal × (2.54 cm/in) 3 = 29.5735295625 mL exactly, or about 4% larger than the imperial unit.

  8. Orders of magnitude (volume) - Wikipedia

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    Volume of crude oil that can be carried aboard the Knock Nevis supertanker: 9.66 × 10 5: Volume of Taipei 101's gross floor space: 1 × 10 ^ 6 m 3 (1,300,000 cu yd; 0.0010 km 3) One cubic hectometre, one gigalitre or one kilostère: 1.4 × 10 6: Volume the 1910 Lakeview Gusher oil spilt (the biggest oil gusher in US history) 1.5644 × 10 6

  9. Intermodal freight transport - Wikipedia

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    The older wooden containers and the pre-ISO containers were rapidly replaced by 10-and-20-foot (3.0 and 6.1 m) ISO standard containers, and later by 40-foot (12 m) containers and larger. In the U.S., starting in the 1960s, the use of containers increased steadily.

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