Sentence examples for flow of container from inspiring English sources

And at Shanghai's Yangshan Deep Water Port it was the six-lane, 20 mile long Donghai bridge, built to carry the constant flow of container trucks in and out from the port, built on a vast artificial island.

The shipping lines are "a little bit leery about how the requirements will affect the flow of containers," said Chak Kwok Wai, director of NYK Line, a subsidiary of Nippon Yusen of Japan and a big Singapore port customer.

In contrast, the freight volume carried by intermodal train has increased, mainly due to the higher flow of containers through maritime ports.

The main goal of this paper is to advance a research approach for designing effective operational policies and practices to manage better the flow of containers toward the inspection area as well as understanding the impact on the container terminal efficiency of the integration of the inspection activities in the normal operations.

The study is valuable for designing the emergency logistics management system with optimal path selection and flow design of container supply chain in disaster environments.

These churning waters off the coast of Vancouver are marked by a constant flow of ferries and containers ships – but they are also home to 80 or so orcas.

In Su Song's waterwheel linkwork device the action of the escapement's arrest and release was achieved by gravity exerted periodically as the continuous flow of liquid filled containers of a limited size.

Notteboom [6] states that bundling of container flows in consolidation terminals is one of the key driving forces of container network dynamics.

The resulting container flows were integrated into the cost model by changing the transport distances between terminals and shunting yards and by revising the average train length to account for the improved bundling of container flows.

These investments increased the volume of container flows in many ports and brought about remarkable changes in the hierarchical position of ports, in terms of the volume of containers handled [40].

The lower explanatory power of both the total number of SSS ports and the number of small SSS ports is most notable, but may be explained by the high level of concentration of container flows around only a couple of main ports (e.g. Antwerp, Hamburg, and Rotterdam).