Sentence examples for container transhipment from inspiring English sources

The main focus is on container transhipment hub locations in northern Europe.

This paper applies a specific research methodology designed to evaluate and compare competing seaport locations within a given region as the optimal site for international container transhipment activity.

When a large container-transhipment port at Gioia Tauro, about five miles north of Palmi, opened ten years ago, mafiosi demanded protection money from its operators.

Over the centuries, Malta's strategic position fostered its development as an important trading post and it remains a leading centre for container and freight transhipment.

There are two facts which mainly contribute to competitive conditions: the continuous increase of the total cargo transferred and the spread of transhipment container flows.

Thanks to a network of regular container shipping services with transhipment operations in so-called hub ports, basically all countries are today connected to each other.

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

The bulk of the trade may involve as few as 100-200 shipping containers a year, 10 "chokepoint" transhipment ports, and three airports.

Shuttle trains or barges transport containers from seaports to the existing transhipment terminals in Switzerland.

As only a small part of all possible country pairs are directly connected with each other, the majority of country pairs require at least one transhipment in order to transport a container from one to the other.

Findings from the research demonstrate that current container hub ports are not necessarily optimal (for serving transhipment markets), and that alternative port sites such as Scapa Flow could provide a superior and more competitive location from which to support the fast expanding transhipment markets of northern Europe.