Intermodal transportation is a type of multimodal freight transportation that uses an intermodal transport unit (ITU) (e.g. container) with no handling of the goods themselves between mode changes.
In tramp cargo transportation, as an example, the current policy is to select for each transport unit the cargo mix which contributes more to a gross-profit objective, assuming deterministic cargo transport demand.
Rob de Jong is head of the transport unit at Unep.
The sale of the container-transport unit, which is based in Purchase, N.Y., to a private company, which Aegon declined to identify, will result in a "small book gain".
The second-largest Dutch insurer, Aegon N. V., agreed yesterday to sell the Transamerica Finance Corporation's container-transport unit to an unnamed private company for $260 million and will integrate the remaining parts of the United States noninsurance business into its own activities.
Because transport economics are based on the transport unit (x tons moved y miles in 1 man-hour), waterways must provide larger tonnage units than those possible on road or rail in order to be competitive.
Carlos Mestre, deputy head of the European Commission's transport unit, said the European Union did not collect data from airlines that would enable it to calculate a similar cost per mile.
G4S said the cash transport unit is integral to its operations and strategic plans, noting that the business was the No. 1 or No. 2 provider of those services in 61 of the 66 markets where it operates.
Last week marked fifty years since Chairman Mao advised his people to "learn from Comrade Lei Feng," an ordinary, young squad leader in a transport unit of the People's Liberation Army, who was plucked from obscurity and thrust ahead as a kind of Communist Rosie the Riveter, an icon of revolutionary selflessness.
Bombardier Q3 Profit Up, But Hurt By Transport Unit.
We used a tractor-trailer, a commonly used transport vehicle in construction, as the transport unit.
