Rebuilding bridges for larger container sizes

[bluebottle]

Are you sure about road hailiers carrying these? It's not that I'm insisting I'm right, but as far as I know, the only EU-legal 45ft containers in operation were those for internal European trade, not those in use for deep sea trades.

This is, after all, one of the reasons why none of the other shipping lines as yet operate 45ft containers in Europe. If the Maersk units are being conveyed by road as well as rail, this can only mean they are not of a standard ISO design.

Next week I'll contact Maersk and ask them about the containers, and where they are being run to-and-from.

Yes, I worked for DHL for 8 years and now work for Goldstar and 45 foot boxes are rare but not unknown (and not only used by Maersk). They are carried on the 40 foot twistlocks of a standard Skeletal trailer, most of which have an extra set of front locks to position the box as far forward as possible. If you look closely at this pic http://www.orionshipping.co.uk/UserImages/truckandcontainer3.jpg you can see the two front sets of locks.
http://www.chassisking.com/images/p...ntainer-stacked-45-ft-high-cube-container.jpg shows that a 45 also has castings at the 40 spacing.

 

[Intermodalist]

Thanks bluebottle.

I knew that 45ft containers has castings at the 40ft spacing.

But what I didn't realise is that road hauliers had found a way to transport standard ISO 45ft units without breaking EU laws.

If you are saying this is possible, then why have the designers of the kind of 45ft boxes that Ge-eX, for example, use gone to such efforts to design the special kind of corner casting that is curved, arguing that without such technology, 45ft containers cannot be carried without breaking EU laws?

It doesn't add up at the moment.