The overweight container problem and international intermodal transportation
- Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States)
Containerization has become the dominant method of transporting general cargo commodities in international trade. In 1991 over 93 million 20-foot equivalent unit (TEU) containers were handled worldwide, and 15.7 million were transferred through US ports alone. The deregulation of the trucking industry and the railways in 1980 and the US Shipping Act of 1984 advanced the development of intermodal movements of containerized cargo in domestic and international trade. Despite the rapid progress of containerization and intermodality, the US freight transport system is still struggling with the basic issue of overweight containers. A study conducted by the Federal Highway Administration revealed that between October 1987 and September 1988 more than one million containers, or 33.5 percent of the containers in the sample, carried weights that could violate federal vehicle weight laws.
- OSTI ID:
- 35450
- Journal Information:
- Transportation Journal, Vol. 34, Issue 2; Other Information: PBD: Win 1994
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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