Container Port Harbor

The waterway is afloat with heavy machinery moving containers from ships, to trucks. The sound of engines and metal against metal permeates the air. The might of these machines is sensed in their interlocking sounds. Cranes reach across the sky to lift brightly colored pallets. Every engine has to move with precision and synchronicity to insure the end result of transport. A container terminal is a facility where cargo containers are transshipped between different transport vehicles, for onward transportation. The transshipment may be between container ships and land vehicles, for example trains or trucks, in which case the terminal is described as a maritime container terminal. Alternatively the transshipment may be between land vehicles, typically between train and truck, in which case the terminal is described as an inland container terminal.