slide-on, slide off containers?
Posted by Jim Davis on 10/6/2021, 9:15 am
It seems to me that on- and offloading container ships could be made a lost faster and simpler if they were to slide on and off the ship... Imagine the ship having a multi-level railed superstructure that could belly up alongside a matching superstructure dockside. The containers, revamped to have wheels underneath, could quickly slide row-by-row off the ship and onto the dockside structure. Elevator like lifts would then lower them to ground level for train or truck pickup. Just a thought... or the beginning of one.
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