fitted / straddle / mounted / loading / attached / reach / handle / piling / made / move
1. A piece of machinery used for .... and unloading containers from ships onto trucks or rail wagons and vice versa. It is rail-mounted and can .... at least four railway tracks. It is motorized and can... parallel to the ship's side.
2. A special type of device which is able to .... very heavy loads. It is used for transferring swap-bodies and containers from rail wagons to trucks and vice versa. It has four legs ..... with wheels and a spreader beam which can span a wide area. It can be ..... on rails or rubber tyres and is able to straddle several rows of containers.
3. A kind of fork lift truck used in container handling. It is equipped with a spreader beam and a lifting It arm and can be used for lifting containers and .... them on top of each other. is very flexible and has a high stacking and storage capacity as it is able to ...... beyond the first row of containers to lift a container
4.A rigid box .... of steel which is very common in intermodal freight transport. It can be used for transport by sea, rail, air, and road. It is availablein many different versions and sizes.For example, there are open-top and flat-rack versions. Some of them have wheels or a bogie ..... to them. The most common lengths are 20, 40, and 45 feet. It is made to the specifications of the International Standards Organization.