Sentence examples for container barges from inspiring English sources

The port authority provided the average mooring time and time for loading and unloading in order to model service times of inland container barges in the port area.

This paper examines ways in which the handling of container barges in the seaport of Rotterdam could be improved with the ultimate aim of expanding the role of barges in the transportation of containers to the hinterland.

The study, conducted by Management and Transportation Associates Inc. of Essex, found that a container barge service could save more than $36 million a year.

A recent study suggested that a container barge operation at a state pier in New London could offer shippers a cheaper alternative to using trucks to carry goods from the New York Harbor area to eastern Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island.

In the last decade, the Flemish government introduced various subsidy schemes for container barge waterways transport.

This paper presents and evaluates an opportunity to improve the competitiveness of container barge transport in the hinterland of Rotterdam through a reorganization of container barge services.

The importance of bundling networks of container barge transport in the port area of Antwerp was further demonstrated by Caris et al. [18] using a discrete event simulation model.

Cover image: The container barge La Primavera passes Kehl, Germany, 22 August 2017.

On Tuesday, several cranes worked away, plunging scoopers into the water and lifting tons of silt into containers on barges.

This is due to the cranes that are being used for the transhipment of containers on barges.

Scrapping that law would also undo protection for companies that operate giant container ships, inland barges, tugs and fishing boats.