TEMPERATURE-CONTROLLED TRANSPORTATION--GROWING OLD SLOWLY

Rapid advances in monitoring and control equipment for thermal containers allied with steady progress on the manufacturing side have tended to overshadow some of the more fundamental questions on who should be supplying the temperature control equipment--the container owner, shipowner, or terminal. And do the special needs of the extra-sensitive cargoes now being carried inevitably require such high technology, or will the container owner, faced with alarmingly high repair costs, call for a return to basics? The article covers temperature control equipment, container designs, thermal insulation and monitoring and control equipment.

• Corporate Authors:

  Cargo Systems International

  Arun House, 201-205 High Street
  New Malden KT3 4BH, Surrey,   England 
• Publication Date: 1978-4

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 59-63
• Serial:
  • CARGO SYSTEMS INTERNATIONAL
  • Volume: 5
  • Issue Number: 4
  • Publisher: Deutsche Bahn AG

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Containers; Control devices; Design; Economic analysis; Economics; Freight transportation; Heat insulating materials; Perishables; Refrigerated cargo; Refrigerated structures; Refrigeration systems; Repairing; Temperature control (Structures); Transportation
• Old TRIS Terms: Cargo temperature control; Cargo transportation; Container design; Repair costs
• Subject Areas: Design; Economics; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00178207
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Cargo Systems International
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 19 1978 12:00AM