Yard transshipment is important because it particularly applies to low-cost, bulk commodities whose transport costs can run as high as 25 to 50% of total delivered price; what yard transshipment does is create integrated rail-truck distribution service that is particularly competitive for shipments traveling in excess of 100 mi; in all cases specially prepared side track facility is required in railroad yard because parking area and scale for trucks, plus office, are necessary.
Cutting transshipment costs of CPI products
Chem Eng
Chemical Engineering ; 72 , n 23
1965
6 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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