Cargo and transportation module

From Supply Chain Management Encyclopedia

Russian: Грузовые и транспортные модули

• Cargo module - any loading unit (box, bag, bale, barrel, basket) designed specifically for transportation.
• The enlarged cargo module - a group of cargo modules included in a separate unit load pallets, pads, sheets, held together by various materials.
• The transportation module - any transport unit, designed for the transport of goods (car, plane, car, ship)
• Enlarged transportation unit - a group of shipping modules designed for a mass of organized transportation (train).
• Transport Module - transport unit is designed for multimodal combined transport in principle from the sender to the recipient (from door to door) (containers, piggyback semi-trailers, roudreylery, swap bodies).
• Container - a standard container for different modes of transport with provision for reloading.
• Swap body - load-carrying part of the car, which is entirely removed from the frame or a semi-trailer and placed on a car or boat.
• Contrailers - container with wheels for movement on the highway with a car, may also be transported on railway platforms with low-floor location.
• Kombitrailer - bimodal transport module, which has road and rail wheel sets, which are alternately raised and lowered depending on the mode of transport, shipment.
• Roadrailer - Transport module with built-in car frame, which also serves as the frame of the module itself. Equipped with a car wheel pairs and a device for lifting and installing a special device for railway wheel sets. When driving on the highway operates as a semi-trailer, rail - as the body of the van.