Sentence examples for transhipment tracks from inspiring English sources
The main design parameters are identified (length and utilisation of transhipment tracks, train and truck arrival behaviour/patterns, type and number of handling equipment, mean stacking height in the storage area, terminal access system and procedures) and analysed.
At last, the new business model for Swiss Split has led to an integration of transhipment processes and rail distribution.
The standards for the design of transhipment facilities recommend a ramp height of 1200 mm over track and a vertical distance between the track axis and the ramp edge of 1700 mm [22].
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.
Its airport, maritime port, rail facilities, and highway network make Newark the busiest transhipment hub on the East Coast in terms of volume.
Haiti is a busy transhipment point for Colombian cocaine bound for the United States.
Transhipment via Gioia Tauro can save a week, he says, which is not to be sniffed at when delivering, say, a container full of laptop computers.
Colombo is a "transhipment" hub for India: big ships unload containers there and feeder boats take these to India's often crummy ports.
But that demand was overcome, the port thrived and Gioia Tauro has vied with Algeciras in recent years to be the Mediterranean's biggest transhipment hub.
The bulk of the trade may involve as few as 100-200 shipping containers a year, 10 "chokepoint" transhipment ports, and three airports.
