In the last four decades the container as an essential part of a unit-load-concept has
achieved undoubted importance in international sea freight transportation. With ever …

In spite of extraordinary support programs initiated by the European Union and other
national authorities, the percentage of overall freight traffic moved by train is in steady …

Abstract In Abgrenzung zur Verkehrstechnik beschränkt sich die Fördertechnik im
Wesentlichen auf den innerbetrieblichen Transport sowie den Warenumschlag in Häfen, auf …

Modern warehouse and distribution systems constitute highly complex nodes within the
value-added supply chain and have to meet a variety of requirements with regard to time …

Warehouse management is the art of operating a warehouse and distribution system or,
better still, of operating it efficiently. Excellent logistic performance can open up new markets …

At rail–road transshipment yards, gantry cranes move containers from freight trains to trucks
and vice versa. They constitute important entities in today's intermodal transportation …

The convergence of European states can be expected to lead to an increase in the trading of
goods within the next few years and thus to a growing demand for transport. Overland …

In this book, the business of international freight forwarding is examined from both a
theoretical and empirical point of view with a special emphasis on multimodal transport …

Transshipment yards, where gantry cranes enable the efficient transfer of containers
between freight trains, are important entities in modern railway systems. They facilitate a …

To enable rapid container transshipment between freight trains in modern rail–rail
transshipment yards efficient computerized scheduling procedures are indispensable. This …