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Container Cargo Transfer System

  • US 20120224946A1
  • Filed: 02/20/2012
  • Published: 09/06/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/11/2000
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A method of transporting goods, comprising:

  • providing a platform;

    providing cranes on the platform;

    providing bi-directional draw bar multi-trailers for receiving containers from the cranes and delivering containers to the cranes;

    providing yard tractors with automatic hitches for moving the trailers;

    transferring goods between an ocean-going vessel and the trailers and barges or other shallower-draft feeder vessels using the cranes on the platform to unload the ocean-going vessel by transferring its containers to the trailers and the barges or other shallower-draft feeder vessels and vice versa;

    using the yard tractors with automatic hitches to move the trailers.

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