Loading solutions of multimodal unit loads

Abstract

One of the obstacles to the expansion of rail-road freight transport is the lack of efficient handling equipment on rail-road intermodal freight transport. The known and widely used solutions (crane, container truck) do not seem to be able to increase the volume of intermodal freight transport. A transshipment device that allows the transfer of intermodal units between the road and rail transport equipment, even under the railway overhead electric line, may serve the professionals’ purpose to increase the rail-road intermodal freight transport. With the technical solution proposed in this article, the physical Internet HUBs known in the literature can get the missing hardware device, which meet Logistics 4.0 requirements.