Freight transport by two or more transport sub-branches.

An area for reloading and storage of intermodal transport units.

Low rail wagons with passing load surface connected to each other, on which trucks can drive on in the Rollende Landstrasse (Ro-La) traffic.

In a wider sense: the organisation and supervision of goods supply chain

Freight transport in one and the same cargo unit or road vehicle while using two or more transport sub-branches where the transported goods are not reloaded. The notion ‘intermodality' means a transport system, where by using two or more transport sub-branches the same cargo unit is transported by road vehicle in an integrated way without loading in and out, in a transport chain from house to house.

A lifting equipment for vertical reloading, bridging over the loading lanes by a portal mounted on a side support. Such cranes move on rails or on a moving surface with tyre wheels. They can often move in a limited area. They can move the cargo in three dimensions (height, longitudinal and crosswise).

Rail wagons with central under-frame for transporting semi-trailers.

Firms participating in freight transport (such as forwarders, transporters, clients of transporters, customs agents) and firms providing supplemental services (e.g. storage, maintenance, repairing) collected in one space mostly within one terminal.

The way of intermodal transport whereby in Europe the majority of the transport distance is covered by railway, inland ship or marine ship, and the road transport access is limited to the possible shortest distance.

A holding frame placed on the reloading equipment, which very often can be adjusted to measure by telescope that enables lifting the intermodal transport unit by its upper corner parts.

A rail wagon with a mobile structure that can be moved out. It is equipped with machines for vertical reloading, thus enabling the lifting of trailers or trucks up and down.

The zone within which the goods can be produced and/or stored without paying customs and duties.

Rail-road combined freight transport. Originally it meant the rail transport of semi-trailers, but nowadays is used rather for the combined traffic.

Hoisting machine moving on a flat and strongly covered surface by tyre wheels for the vertical movement and piling of containers.

Rail track used for the reloading of the intermodal transport units.

Cargo unit forwarded by one and the single transport contract.

Forwarding road vehicle or intermodal transport unit without driver by the vehicle of another transport sub-branch (e.g. by rail or ferry).

A vehicle with mobile hoisting equipment for the movement and piling of intermodal transport units.

A track of direct access to the site of the company.

The person who assigns the arrangement of a particular activity to a third party.

Transportation of trucks by rail on special, low rail wagons of passing load surface, whereby trucks roll on and off themselves.

A vehicle with forklift for hoisting, moving and piling loading sheets, containers or swap bodies, where the two latter units are handled empty.

The distance between the inner sides of the rail heads of the two tracks. This is 1435 mm in general. (In Spain and Portugal: 1676 mm, Soviet Union successor states: 1524 mm.)

The person who takes over forwarding partly or totally from the person who is responsible for transporting.

Forwarding the road vehicle together with the driver by the vehicle of another transport sub-branch (e.g. by rail or ferry).

Hard, big facility used for freight transport and is appropriate for repeated application. In general it can be piled up and has got appropriate corner parts for reloading to vehicles of other transport sub-branches.

A railway limiter ticket stipulating standard measures for the infrastructure, (e.g. tunnels, side obstacles). The rail vehicles and their freights (rail wagon + intermodal transport unit) may not exceed this ticket.

The person who is responsible for the transport. He forwards the goods himself or ensures forwarding by others.

Unit equalling twenty feet long container. Statistic equivalent for the 20' long ISO container (6.10 m), which is used for recording turnover streams and production data.

Fixing points at the upper and lower corner of the container, on which an instrument with rotate lock can be placed for lifting, piling and fastening the containers.

Movement of rail wagons on factory siding owned privately.

The person who is responsible for the goods transport. Either he makes the transport himself or assigns others to forward the goods.

A container used for freight transport, whose measures are adjusted to the road vehicles and are equipped with holding rims for reloading between the sub-branches of transport (rail-road).

A semi-trailer which can be transformed into rail wagon by proper rail bogie.

Adjusting the freight of the rail wagon to the cargo adjustment rules.

Storage on the top of each other or forwarding of intermodal transport units.

Replacing the intermodal transport units from one sub-branch of transport to the other.

An equipment for the horizontal reloading of road vehicles, which enables drive on and off rail wagons or ship.