freight container

collocation in English

meaningsoffreightandcontainer

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freight
noun[U]
uk
/freɪt/us
/freɪt/
goods, but not passengers, that are carried from one place to another, by ship, aircraft, train, or truck, or the system of transporting ...
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container
noun[C]
uk
/kənˈteɪ.nər/us
/kənˈteɪ.nɚ/
a hollow object, such as a box or a bottle, that can be used for holding something, especially to carry or ...
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(Definition offreightandcontainerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The lindane was contained in plastic-lined fibreboard drums which were then stowed in a standardfreightcontainer.
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It is transported in sealed stainless steel drums inside afreightcontainer.
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In 1985, the station building was torn down, and replaced by a modifiedfreightcontainer.
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He started baking himself, using the family kitchen, then expanded into afreightcontainerand his business now bakes in converted barns.
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It will be the only airline operating on the major trunk routes an aircraft which cannot carry the standard freight containers.
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We have also installed more high-tech equipment, including a national network of x-ray scanners to detect the high volume of smuggling in freight containers.
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Pulsed fast neutron analysis can provide precise information about the composition and location of materials within freight containers.
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Another is the capacity to piggy-back freight containers—to take standard size road trailers and lift them on to modified wagons on the railway.
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Most of our export industries of any size have committed themselves to freight containers.
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In addition, packages, vehicles and freight containers are required to have hazard labels or placards so that they can easily be picked out by an inspector.
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Secondly, there was what might be called technological blight, because of changes in the handling of freight containers, packaged freight, roll-on/roll-off, and larger vessels with deeper draughts.
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Towards the stern, the deck can accept standard freight containers.
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Freight containers are sized in feet; three common lengths are 20ft m, 40ft m and 45ft m.
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The container carrier was to transport 912 standard (20-foot) freight containers, loaded within 30 hours through hatches, assisted by internal conveyance systems.
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Freight trains have continued to run on the railway, carrying mainly cement, maize, fuel and freight containers.
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More recent dumbwaiters can be more sophisticated, using electric motors, automatic control systems, and custom freight containers of other kinds of elevators.
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Ferries are also used to transport freight (in lorries and sometimes unpowered freight containers) and even railroad cars (in the case of a train ferry).
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Included in the business plan were a series of low-cost, low-power sensors, including a gamma-ray sensor and an optical sensor for use in freight containers.
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Freight containers are sealed and heavily guarded.
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