Sentence examples for flow of containers from inspiring English sources

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.

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 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.

Thousands of automobiles made in Japan and South Korea also flow through Los Angeles, along with millions of containers of American exports headed toward Asia.

In this paper we propose a multi-commodity model that makes an explicit distinction between flows of non-damaged containers, on the one hand, and flows of damaged containers, on the other.

In the form of plastic films, nanoparticles, such as silicate nanoparticles, zinc oxide, and titanium oxide, are used to reduce the flow of oxygen inside the packaging containers [ 53].

Superfluids exhibit a variety of odd behaviour, including the ability to flow up the sides and out the top of containers.