Sentence examples for transhipment terminal from inspiring English sources

The analysis of today's Swiss Split distribution by rail showed weaknesses in the fields of rolling stock, transhipment terminal structures and the production schemes for SWL.

Transhipment is the fastest growing segment of the containerport market, resulting in significant scope to develop new transhipment terminal capacity to cater for future expected traffic flows.

The results show that using SWL for the final distribution is competitive even if it includes trucking between the transhipment terminal and the final recipient for relatively short distances of about 70 km.

Currently Swiss Split service is quite successful, although it still has several weaknesses (e.g. in the areas of rolling stock, transhipment terminal structures and the service production schemes for single wagon load i.e. SWL) that reduce its competitiveness compared to container distribution by road [2].

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

There are 610 km of crude oil pipelines in Croatia, connecting the Port of Rijeka oil terminal with refineries in Rijeka and Sisak, as well as several transhipment terminals.

Transhipment in terminals is traditionally performed vertically, using a variety of equipment, such as Transtainer (gantry crane), Reach Stacker, Straddle carrier, or Fork lift.

The new wagons were designed to improve both the loading/unloading process on sidings and the transhipment process in terminals.

The objective function of this problem tends to minimise the generalised cost (1) which comprises the costs for pre- and post-haulage by road plus the main haulage using the waterways (including possible economies of scale) and the transhipment at the terminals.

The device is mounted on the truck, which makes transhipment possible at every terminal, or small terminal/ siding.

The effects of the business model improvements proposed by SBB Cargo were integrated directly into the model (improved efficiency of the wagon usage by shorter round-trip times, decreasing transhipment costs in hinterland terminals).