The bulk of the cargo which are being transported by ship, to be transported by container ship on the seas. In addition to the ordinary standard container, two TEU, there are also various specialized container types, with as many as the standardized outer dimensions of 20 feet or 40 feet long, but also the sizes 10 and 45 'occur, reefers for the transport of, for example, refrigerated and frozen cargo and containers for liquid cargo and project cargo can be transported on a platform, called flat racks.
A relatively new development (a few decades), the container crane for loading and unloading of containers. This is in fact a heavy gantry crane in which the carrier beam for the trolley projects beyond the ends of the vertical support structure.
To load or unload the container trolley must can reach far beyond the edge of the quay cranes can already some 28 large containers loading and unloading. The taps hold of the containers with a so-called spreader (spreader), so that they can hold a variety of different sizes of containers. There are also faucets with special spreader 2 separate TEUs can tackle, this is called twinning. It is impractical to build a kind of giant ships dock so the valve is adjusted so that the ships can load and unload.
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