Photo: Dr. Jean-Paul Rodrigue, 2003
(Google Earth Placemark)

Container yard, Port of Le Havre

The temporary storage of containers for ship-to-land and land-to-ship intermodal operations is often extensive. In this case, the stacking requirements of two containers to be picked or dropped by straddlers demands an even more extensive use of space since the density is limited to a height of two.

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