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An intermodal container is a large standardized shipping container, designed and built for intermodal freight transport, meaning these containers can be used across different modes of transport – from ship to rail to truck – without unloading and reloading their cargo.

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    • FCL (Full Container Load)

      A standard (twenty or forty-foot) container that is loaded and unloaded under the risk and account of the shipper or consignee.

    • CFS (Container Freight Station)

      CFS stands for ‘Container Freight Station’; a station or warehouse where a number goods or products are stored to be shipped together in one or more containers.

    • Container Yard (CY)

      Container yard (CY) Port facility at which containers are accepted for loading onboard ships, and off-loaded containers are delivered to the consignees.

    • LCL (Less than Container Load)

      A term used to describe the transportation of small ocean freight shipments not requiring the full capacity of an ocean container – usually less than 20 CBM (cubic meters).

    • CY (Container Yard) Cutoff

      The term container yard means containers packed by shipper off Carrier's premises and delivered by shipper to Carrier's CY and accepted by consignee at Carrier's CY and unpacked by consignee off Carrier's premises, all at the risk and expense of ...